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Train Simple videos: Introduction to Flash game development


Train Simple

Train Simple

Jiro Ietaka

Jiro Ietaka

Large Animal Games

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Character movement
  3. Enemy movement
Created:
5 February 2007
User Level:
Intermediate

The following videos are excerpts from Train Simple's Flash 8 Game Development online course and DVD hosted by Jiro Ietaka. Jiro takes you through the necessary steps to build a Flash-based game with extensive use of Flash ActionScript 2.0. The course focuses on the key elements of game development such as parallax scrolling, character movement using trigonometry, dynamically loading enemies via XML, and adding sound to the game.

The following eight tutorials are taken from Lessons 2 and 4. Lesson 2 focuses on character movement based upon user input, while Lesson 4 uses basic physics to animate the enemy characters. To see what kind of game this series of lessons builds, play the game below:

Requirements

To follow these video tutorials, you should install the following software:

Flash Professional 8

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About the authors

Train Simple is an Adobe Certified Training Partner offering video-based training for Adobe applications delivered over the web and DVD-ROM. The full Flash Media Server 2 training product offers comprehensive lessons and tutorials for building Flash-based applications. Train Simple also offers live, hands-on classes on the East and West Coast of the United States.

Jiro Ietaka has been a professional Flash and Director developer for the past 10 years, focusing now on designing and producing games. He is currently the senior designer at Large Animal Games, a casual game developer in New York. Prior to that, Jiro worked as the senior game producer for Kids' WB!, the cartoon block of the WB Television network, where he developed over 30 games and activities for KidsWB.com. He has also worked in Los Angeles as a media director for IBM and as an instructor at Train Simple. Some of his most notable games include IT Defender, produced for Fortify, and Jackpot Match-up, recently released from Large Animal Games.