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FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Countdown Clock
Submitted by rosenz on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 18:39.Gary Rosenzweig from FlashGameU.com shows you how to build a simple clock to count down time until the end of a game.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Mouse Fade and Base Classes
Submitted by rosenz on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 20:51.Gary Rosenzweig from FlashGameU.com shows you how to make a movie clip fade away according to the distance to the cursor location. He uses a Base Class to assign this same script to two different movie clips.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Creating a Snake Game, Part 2
Submitted by rosenz on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 17:30.In this mini-chapter two-part episode, Gary Rosenzweig completes a snake game in ActionScript 3.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Creating a Snake Game, Part 1
Submitted by rosenz on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 00:19.In this mini-chapter two-part episode, Gary Rosenzweig starts building a snake game in ActionScript 3.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Playing Multiple Flash Movies Inside a Single Flash Application
Submitted by rosenz on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 02:00.Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at how to put two Flash games together, inside of a single Flash movie. The trick is to use the Loader object.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Playing a Song With a Toggle Button
Submitted by rosenz on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 21:45.Steve wrote in about the Toggle Button episode.
I'd followed your AS3 toggle button tutorial to Play/Pause a song.
1. What can I do to allow the song to be played again by clicking the toggle button?
2. What is needed to make the toggle button to take on the "play" state when the song has finished on its own?
Expanding on the earlier tutorial about creating a Toggle Button, here's how to link the toggle button to a piece of music in the library and to have the toggle button react properly when the song is done.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Shuffling Arrays
Submitted by rosenz on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 21:31.This tutorial shows you how to create an array with a random arrangement of items, like a shuffled deck of cards, or a list of sounds to be played in a random order.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Matching Game with Card Pairs
Submitted by rosenz on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 16:43.This tutorial shows you how to alter the matching game in the book ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University to use pairs of cards instead of identical cards.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Dynamic Buttons
Submitted by rosenz on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 23:25.How to create simple dynamic buttons that allow you to create identical buttons with different labels. The buttons also behave like buttons, with rollover and down states.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Saving Local Data
Submitted by rosenz on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 22:43.How to use the SharedObject to save bits of data to the local hard drive for use at another time.
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