QuickTip: Stopping an Event

Learn how to stop an event, and also why.
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QuickTip: Understanding Right Click Menus (ContextMenu)

So we’re going to take a look at the right click menus. Usually I see them completely unchanged, making it possible for a user to screw something up with your product (game/movie/site). Lets not make that happen anymore.
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QuickTip: Managing Saved Data (SharedObject)

Today we’re going to look at how to manage saved data, in flash called shared objects.

Usually that can be a pain, but thanks to Vlad from Vortix Games Studio, this is very simple. He created a class for this called LocalData, and it’s a super simple way of managing saved data.
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QuickTip: Scrolling Only in SWF, not on Page.

This Quick Tip will show you how to stop simultaneous scrolling on a page and in SWF.
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QuickTip: Execute Code After Animaiton

Hey there. Here is a new series of quick, but hopefully useful tips for you.

We start of by executing some code after an animation has run once!
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Text Animation Letter by Letter

Ever tried making a text apear by making each letter coming on the screen one by one, and ended up with something likes this?

Read on and find out how to fix it!
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The Basic Controls of a Car

So here we are, this time we are gotta make the basic controls of a car.

I started off by making a car (surprise?), I made it a movieclip and called the instance “car” (there isn’t going to be any explanation about how to do that, if you can’t do this please read the ‘8 way character movement‘ tutorial I made):

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Buttons & Menus Part 2: Animated Button

So here comes the second part, this time we’re going to be making an animated button like this:

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Buttons & Menus Part 1: A Simple Centered Button

So I’ve seen a lot of crappy buttons out there. So that’s going to change now! So here comes my tutorial on how to change a (unusually) bad button, to a good button. See them both below. The left side shows how the button looks before compiling (the stroke is just there for your sake so you can see where the textfield is), and the right side is how it looks and works after compiling.

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8 way Character Movement

First of all, I want to say: If you are completely new at ActionScript, then you should check out Michael James Williams tutorials, starting here

Now one of the problems I see in many games are the movement of the main character. Just take a look at two games at ArmorGames: Medieval Rampage, Hands of War RPG.
I think this is rather strange as it is very easy to manage. First of all I want to show how you make a character move, this is really not complicated. We’re going to make a game with correct movement with WASD and arrow keys.

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