Class 2

Programming Pong
Human Pong @ YouTube
The Story of PONG
Analyze this: Faux Pong
Class Notes (file)
Flash Tutorials (link)
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Programming Pong
Human Pong @ YouTube
The Story of PONG
Analyze this: Faux Pong
Class Notes (file)
Flash Tutorials (link)

A simple but fun animation technique using the basic code we looked at yesterday is the endless scrolling panorama. With a bit of additional code you can also do parallax scrolling - a technique that has been used in many video games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling
Flash tutorial:
http://www.pixelhivedesign.com/tutorials/Endless+Scrolling+Background/
(that is in Actionscript 2 - so the syntax is different from Actionscript 3 - but the concepts still apply)
Quake C-Code running in the flash plugin
See the vid until the very end:
http://blip.tv/file/408241/
Then read more about it:
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1095
Here is the work file for today's class: link
Sketch: Screensaver (ambient animation)
Create a code-based "screensaver" type sketch where you control the properties of movieClips over time to make an endless, cycling animation.
Amelia Lepak
Amanda Athanasiou
Daniel Gonyea
Adam Cooperman
Michael Ariel
Adrian Wisernig
Steve Klebanoff
Lincoln Bryant
Jeremy Lach
Derrick Henry
Feras Iskanderani
Rachel Mercer
We will be working with arrays, collision detection + object.
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