Category Archives: Tutorials

Aeroplane Shooting Game Tutorial – Adding Enemies

As of now we have a player plane which can be controlled using the keyboard. The player plane can shoot bullets so we need now some enemies to dodge and shoot at. We are going to add the enemies in the same way we dealt with the player bullets. We… Read more »

Aeroplane Shooting Game Tutorial – Shooting Bullets

In this tutorial we are adding the functionality to make the player plane to shoot bullets. The easiest way would be to shoot a bullet each time the player press the fire button. A little more elaborate method is to shoot bullets when the fire button is down and to… Read more »

Aeroplane Shooting Game Tutorial – Player Movement

This is the first part from the aeroplane shooting game tutorial. Here are the other sections: 1. Player Movement 2. Shooting Bullets 3. Adding Enemies 4. Collisions 5. Scoring and HUD. 1. Player Movement 1.1. Adding The Player Plane. From the beginning in an aeroplane shooting game we need of… Read more »

Add Auto-Hide functionality to Sprite and MovieClip objects in AS3

Auto-Hide might be useful when you deal with situations when you have too many controls on a screen and you just want to hide those which are not used so often to have enough space in the main screen. A simple option to implement would be to use MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER and… Read more »