My two part Flixel game tutorial now up on Active.tutsplus

December 1st, 2009


A few weeks ago after messing around with the Flixel game engine I created a tutorial for active.tutsplus.com. The video tute took quite a lot of planning and recording and was finally broken into two parts, each split into four sections and totalling 2 hours and 20 minutes. I tried to include as much as I could about the Flixel engine and went over the basics of creating a game with the engine from creating assets to adding interactivity and states along with monitoring lives / levels etc. The tutorial is designed to be a base for people to try and learn about this simple yet very powerful library and I am proud to say that Flixel seem to have included it in their wiki as a beginners tutorial.

So any way if you want to check out the tutorial you can see part one here and part two here and if you want to just have a play with the demo either click the image above this post or go here.

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Scrollbar video tutorial featured on new site Flash.tutsplus.com!

March 31st, 2009

Flash tutes + screen image


I am very pleased to announce my first ever video tutorial has been featured on the new Flash tutorial website – Flash tuts +. The website which is part of the envato network and follows on from the very successful Psd-tutes + and Vector-tutes +, was finally launched on 29th March 2009 and my video tute was the first screen cast for the site to feature – yep I’m pretty chuffed! (English slang for pleased). Any way the video tutorial outlines creating a custom scroll bar in flash, and goes in to some detail on the actionscript involved and creating the assets in Flash. I thoroughly enjoyed making the tute and it really was a learning curve for me and there are definately a few things I would change in future – the video does go on a while and my poor planning meant that a few things weren’t covered how they should of been, but for my first ever video tute, I can say that it isn’t too bad! This is something I will probably be doing again in the near future and don’t be suprised if some of the future video tutes do make it onto this blog site. So please if you will go and check out the screen cast here and maybe let me know what you think……?!

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