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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Introduction Post

Hi there.

So this will be the start of my flash blog, yay! I’m using wordpress (like most of the other bloggers) and some plugins (Thanks to MJW), but I’m really all new to this stuff, so there will probably be a lot of updates comming. Anyway, check the about page for some more info :)

Right now there will only be a single tutorial, so if you somehow made your way here, I would surgess you should check out these two (there will be reading for a while):
Michael James Williams
Emanuele Feronato