Text Animation Letter by Letter


If you’re just trying to implement the effect, you can buy a finished class for this

Ever tried making a text apear by making each letter coming on the screen one by one, and ended up with something likes this?
Text Animation 1
Read on and find out how to fix it!
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Posted on September 5th, 2009
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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):
car
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Posted on August 2nd, 2009
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Buttons & Menus Part 2: Animated Button

This entry is part of a series, Buttons & Menus»

This post was crap, so instead of reading that, please read my new post on the same subject instead.

Using my Hit Class for Buttons

 

 

 

Entries in this series:
  1. Buttons & Menus Part 1: A Simple Centered Button
  2. Buttons & Menus Part 2: Animated Button

Posted on June 21st, 2009
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Buttons & Menus Part 1: A Simple Centered Button

This entry is part of a series, Buttons & Menus»

This post was crap, so instead of reading that, please read my new post on the same subject instead.

Using the Hit Class for Buttons

 

 

 

Entries in this series:
  1. Buttons & Menus Part 1: A Simple Centered Button
  2. Buttons & Menus Part 2: Animated Button

Posted on June 17th, 2009
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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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Posted on June 9th, 2009
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