How to make a Game?

[lady DarkDeath]

I need some help, I have an assignement at school (i go on a media and communication line in Norway) and I am supposed to make a room ascape game in flash, but i need help. I have never done something like this before.
I use Macromedia Flash 5.
In order to make a game, I need to learn how to do certain things that none of my teachers know how to do.
If anyone could answer some questions about flash i would be very pleased.

Q1: How do I make things fall together?
Q2: How can I script an object to move with the arrow?
Q3: How do i make the game remember what have been done?
Q4: How do I make a "bar" with items?

I do not remember more questions at the moment but i hope somebody can help me. (there will come more questions)

If anyone at all can help me by answering my questions it would be really really nice (my teachers know nothing)

Sincearly
Margit Eng (aka: lady_DarkDeath)

[GamersHood]

How much you know your Flash. Do you know some actionscript?
If you don't know, then i suggest You to learn some actionscript.

Actionscript tutorials

Anyway here's some answers to your quetions:

A1: Sry, but dont know what you are exactly meaning.
A2: Here's a tutorial how to make an arrow(aka cursor) Tutorial here
A3: Here's a little tutorial, it's too small however Link
And i suggest you to read more basic tutorials from actionscript.org

And if you you now learn something. Then i just say, that i use "_level0."'s and "enterFrame"'s with my movieclips.

A4: To make a bar with items, you again have to learn "enterFrame" and "_level0" stuff. Also you need to know "dragging".

Here's the code, i use to drag items:

on (release) {
        thisX = getProperty(this, _x);
        thisY = getProperty(this, _y);
        startDrag(this, true);
}
on (press, releaseOutside) {
    
    if (_root.tv.hitTest(this))
    {
        //do something
        setProperty(this, _x, thisX);
        setProperty(this, _y, thisY);
        stopDrag();
    }
    else
    {
    setProperty(this, _x, thisX);
    setProperty(this, _y, thisY);
    stopDrag();
    }
} 

P.S after "//" are comments.


Oh, and sry about the typos. And it's hard to explain if i don't know what you already know. I hope this at least gives you a some kind of view

[lady DarkDeath]

Thank you very much, this have been more helpful than my teachers...
We acctually have one teacher that is supposed to learn us flash, but he only know the basics, (like how to make something move or how to make a button) he does not even know how to use a guide...

but thank you very much...

if anyone have more tips, please send them....

[Unregistered]

How much you know your Flash. Do you know some actionscript?
If you don't know, then i suggest You to learn some actionscript.

Actionscript tutorials

Anyway here's some answers to your quetions:

A1: Sry, but dont know what you are exactly meaning.
A2: Here's a tutorial how to make an arrow(aka cursor) Tutorial here
A3: Here's a little tutorial, it's too small however Link
And i suggest you to read more basic tutorials from actionscript.org

And if you you now learn something. Then i just say, that i use "_level0."'s and "enterFrame"'s with my movieclips.

A4: To make a bar with items, you again have to learn "enterFrame" and "_level0" stuff. Also you need to know "dragging".

Here's the code, i use to drag items:

on (release) {
        thisX = getProperty(this, _x);
        thisY = getProperty(this, _y);
        startDrag(this, true);
}
on (press, releaseOutside) {
    
    if (_root.tv.hitTest(this))
    {
        //do something
        setProperty(this, _x, thisX);
        setProperty(this, _y, thisY);
        stopDrag();
    }
    else
    {
    setProperty(this, _x, thisX);
    setProperty(this, _y, thisY);
    stopDrag();
    }
} 

P.S after "//" are comments.


Oh, and sry about the typos. And it's hard to explain if i don't know what you already know. I hope this at least gives you a some kind of view

do you know like a site or soming cause i really want to make one

[Unregistered]

do you know like a site or soming cause i really want to make one

I know how to make one, but i have not did it yet and i think there's no site with particular tutorial, couse it's just too general/basic to make a tutorial about.

[smackdown]

I want to make a game

I want to know how to make a game but I have no idea how to do it. Could someone tell me what kind of software I need.

[Mistery]

If you want to make on online game, you need Flash.

For downloadable games there are a couple of different game engines to work with.

[Acelightning]

is it possible to make a game without downloading anything???

is there a way i can make a game without downloading anything????????

[Mistery]

You mean without the need for YOU to download a software for that or for your players?

You need to have a software for making games, unless it is a html riddle game.

[Acelightning]

i mean so I don't have 2 download anything onto my computer

[Mistery]

Well, you need a kind of game engine, how else do you want to make your game? You need either Flash for online games or another game engine for creating downloadable games.

[Acelightning]

well i want to make an online game....

but what is a game engine???? im only 10 i dont know much

.....html riddle game????

[Mistery]

Then you will need Flash. Although you can download a free trial version, I think that it the full version is rather expensive.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

At the Developer tools you find Flash Professional 8 as trial version.

But as I said, I'm not experience with it as I am working with other software and make downloadable games.

A game engine is just the software you make your game with. And if you would like to take a look at riddle games, go to the Riddle Games Category here on GamersHood.

[Acelightning]

so can u create html riddle games without downloading??? because im not allowed 2 download anything

my mum wont let me

[Mistery]

Yes, you don't need to download anything. But you need a host (homepage) where you can put it. And you need to get to know a bit of HTML language.

Best if you get to know such riddle games before you can create one of your own. We have members at your age who have already created their own riddle games, so this could be possible.