Jul 21, 2011
Okay, here is some tips about flash game development. I write this article hope you will get some outlook on the flash development.
Start
Flash Player and the Flex SDK Adobe make you can develop flash game with ease. Using a Flex has many advantages
- High compatibility, many platform can use this software.
- Easy distribution, you can distribute it easily as long as the platform support flash.
- Only needs few thing, You only needs browser that support Flash
- There Flex SDK which is free.
You can download graphic engine from spritelib, http://www.flyingyogi.com/fun/spritelib.html.
Creating the Application
Flex has two things : Graphic User Interface and the Actionscript code. The GUI is built in MXML file, which is an XML file which carries user interface elements in tags like HTML. keep in mind, MXML file can carry Actionscript code in mx:Script tag, but the important things is of the MXML file determine the user interface.
First level tag of an MXML is mx:Application tag.
main.mxml Actionscript Source Code
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”
layout=”absolute”
width=”300″
height=”200″
frameRate=”300″
creationComplete=”CreationComplete()”
enterFrame=”EnterFrame(event)”>
<mx:Script><![CDATA[
public function CreationComplete():void
{
}
public function EnterFrame(event:Event):void
{
}
]]></mx:Script>
</mx:Application>
Compiling and Running
write mxmlc main.mxml at the command prompt then run it, so you can compile it. The SWF file will be created
The SWF file is just plain, without anything. Yes it was right, this is the first step, like usually you make “hello world” program, this also just introduction.
Nice tutorial, I have been looking to build flash games for a while now. This post is a step to the right direction. I do think instead of using flex use Flash to create more environment rich and entertaining games.