Developing An Application in Flash And AS3 Part Three

Wednesday, 8 July 2009 | Jason Slater

Welcome to the third part of this development project. You can catch up with the two previous posts using the links at the bottom of this page.

Update So Far

Progress has been a little slower than I would have liked as I haven’t had much time over the last few evenings to work on the project. However, the game is now at least playable – check out the end of this post for a playable progress so far beta version. I have been working on two issues with the pairs game which have taken a little time to resolve.

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Developing An Application In Flash And AS3 Part Two

Thursday, 2 July 2009 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

To catch up on this ongoing project read this article: Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3.

Now I have a pretty reasonable grasp of the basics of ActionScript 3 and its object nature the next step has been to take a step back and write down the plan for the project in order to frame the scope– remember this is going to be a simple pair matching game.

Project Outline

• Pairs use a grid of 10 pairs of cards (20 cards in total) arranged in a 5×4 grid.
• At the start of the round the cards are randomly shuffled and the timer starts counting in seconds.
• Player clicks one card which flips over to reveal its face, the player then clicks another (different) card which flips over to reveal its face.
• If the two cards are the same the pairs are removed. If there are no more pairs the timer is stopped, the game is over and the final time is presented to the player.
• If the two cards are different they are returned to their face down position after a short time (a few seconds for the player to remember them).
• Add a front information screen prior to the game starting and hook this into a menu button on the game.

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Dealing with You cannot debug this SWF error in Flash

Friday, 26 June 2009 | Jason Slater

I was busy working on my Flash project last night when after a short session of adding a new Class I was met with a problem when testing the application – I was faced with a plain white panel where … Read More

Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3

Monday, 22 June 2009 | Jason Slater | 7 Comments

I have been looking around for a while for a new programming language to learn having looked at the possibilities of Silverlight, XNA, and Ruby but I have decided to learn Flash with ActionScript 3. I have dabbled with Flash in the past but really nothing more than could be achieved with PowerPoint. The programmability of Flash has always been a put off as it has often seemed a little cumbersome and less than intuitive. However, I have been looking at the latest version of ActionScript, version 3, with its object nature and it caught my eye. This series of articles will follow progress on the development of a Flash application using Action Script 3.

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Google Enhances Flash Indexing

Sunday, 21 June 2009 | Jason Slater

Over on the Google Webmaster Central Blog they are reporting improvements to the Flash indexing capabilities. One of the problems a Flash website may experience is the difficulty search engines have in indexing their content – this can be a … Read More