One of the most common actions to do in a flash movie is reading data from outside sources. There are many different ways and formats for reading data, and we will start with reading from an XML document.
Reading from an XML document provides us with a lot of different abilities. First off, you can modify an XML file easier than a Flash file because you don’t have to recompile it. Second (and more importantly in my opinion), XML files can be the dynamically creating using PHP which means you can pull data directly out of a database.
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Actionscript 3, Flash
Flash games are all over the internet. What separates the good ones from the not so good ones? My experiences are based on playing them as I have not yet finished and published what I would consider a “good” game. I have however wasted many hours playing thousands of different flash games. Some games I will play for hours and even bookmark them to play again, and others I never even end up passed the main menu (if there is one).
Forget game play and what makes a game fun for now. This post will be focusing on things that drive players away from what could have been a great game and elements you must include in all games no matter the genre.
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Flash Games
Kingdom of Kroz – the Flash version!
Play a perfect remake of the classic 80’s DOS game originally created by Scott Miller of Apogee Games. Talon Designs created a flash version able to be played without the need for DOSBox.
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Flash Games
The first tutorial will be to create a very simple slide show using Flash and Actionscript 3. I know, there are thousands of these things out there and it would be easier to download one of those and use it, but by building your own you will learn some of the concepts in programming with Actionscript 3.
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Actionscript 3, Flash
This blog will be primarily about programming, and more specifically, programming for the web. I have a new-found fascination with Flash and Actionscript 3 that will account for a lot of the posts. Hopefully this blog will help me organize some of my random thoughts and projects that I typically start and never finish.
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