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Actionscript is an object-oriented programming language primarily used in association with Adobe Flash.

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Is there a way that even though two objects that have different y co-ordinate collide? In my game, I wanted to make my object rotate as explained in ...
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In my game, I have made 4 lines with different colors to form a square but the colored lines are different objects. I want to rotate the lines in a way that the lines will still form a square. Eg: But ...
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How can I correctly implement 360 degree rotation of some object, every time when some condition is meet? I have two class, one with definition of function and second with ...
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I was wondering if this is a possibility with RTMFP since it acts like UDP/P2P.. Host Migration Player A starts and host a game.. Player B and C connects.. Player A quits.. Player B is now assigned ...
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(This was originally in an other senction but many told me to ask here, hopefully someone can answer this) I am having a major problem in my new browser app. Okay so I made game where different cubes ...
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I want to know the shortest and most understandable code for walking on platforms using actionscript 2.0. I know there are multiple ways in doing it but my method becomes too tedious when a lot of ...
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I'm making a game where the player must avoid random falling objects. I dont know how to implement pausing. I've been stuck on this for 2 days! I tried using ...
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sorry for my english. Im relative new to flash game development, Im creating a game and I need some big size mp3 files. If I add them into flash, .swf file will be too big. I guess I need to host mp3 ...
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I'm making a chaser game in flash, where you would press an arrow key and the player would move in that direction then stop on another point on a grid, as the enemy does the same and chases the player....
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I've created a simple game using ActionScript 3.0 and Adobe Flash CS5. Is there any way to run this creation on Android / Apple IOS ? (Even if so, I still have no Idea how to work with "touch" ...
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I have code like this: touchX = e.stageX; touchY = e.stageY; I also have a player movieclip that I'm trying to make shoot lasers. So I got the MovieClip to ...
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I have developed a flash game using FlashPunk (on FlashDevelop). And now that I am trying to add a sponsor preloader and splashscreen to my game, I realize the flashpunk forums are down, and have been ...
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I have a game, where the user presses a button to spend money and increase the height of a Movie Clip. I use the following: height ++. The problem: When I test ...
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I am using actionscript 3 and I have used an external actionscript file (.as) for my game. I would like the external actionscript file to be played at frame 2 (instead of frame 1, as it is an ...
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I need to know how can I enable mouse click on a button when I have a MouseEvent listener for the stage. I have an MClip ...
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I want to make an infinite cave in my 3d game using flash stage3d. But I got no idea about how to build that cave. Can anyone can give me some solution or hint? update: I've tried agal fragment shader ...
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When we want to design a mission sub-system like in the The Ville or Sims Social, what kind of design pattern / idea would fit the best? There may be relation between missions (first do this then this ...
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I am trying to create a browser game using actionscript/flash. Currently, I'm trying to understand how I would go about creating a back-end which interfaced with my MySQL database. As far as I ...
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I'm trying to craft a site for web-based (original) board games, and my client (currently written in Actionscript, but that's highly fungible) works fine - I can play solitaire games in the client - ...
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I'm very new to this so please forgive the questions possibly ill-stated nature. Firstly is this even a valid way to speedtest: ...
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On the faq for the current preview release, http://unity3d.com/unity/preview/faq it says that while networking is not currently supported for flash compilation, we can write our own in AS3 using the ...
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I'm creating a bullet shooter much in the style of Touhou. Right now I want to have a very simple circular shot being fired from the enemy. However, the spacing is very uneven, which isn't very good ...
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In Adobe CS5 you can export games to iOS, but all my research in the past indicated that Apple was not going to support Flash. It's my understanding that Adobe and Apple were working on this at one ...
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Are there any open source games using Flashpunk? The other big flash game library Flixel has a number of example projects, are there any equivalents for Flashpunk?
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I'm trying to add a new element to the HUD, it's supposed to be a compass that should function like a minimap. I've added this code to the main hud.swf: ...
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I'm trying to put together 2D game on Flash ActionScript. Game objects positions are updated by physics library and I'm trying to control them applying forces and updating these forces every frame. ...
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Yes I proudly -and sadly- declare that I am a complete nincompoop when it comes to Flash, and I have been fishing around the big wide web for information. The reason for this is that I have been ...
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I want to write some simple flash games (as a hobby). I have a lot of programming experience, but no experience with Flash/ActionScript. My question is: As a beginner, is it a good idea to start with ...
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I had previously asked this for 3D but now I changed my strategy and would like to do the intersection in 2D. The Rectangle is axis aligned and will always be in a fixed position, and has a constant ...
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I work for Konami as a Flash developer, and got sent some code for a puzzle mini-game from a new, yet-to-be-released Silent Hill game for PS3/Xbox 360. It was a windows executable, but it was made in ...
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I have a code segment in which I use hitTest() a couple of times but at a particular section the hitTest stops working. It doesn'...
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Has anyone used WiiFlash for developing Flash games? Any pointers on how to begin developing games for the Opera channel for the Wii?
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