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July 2, 2008

Class 2

Programming Pong

PONG: The Movie

Human Pong @ YouTube

The Story of PONG

Analyze this: Faux Pong

Class Notes (file)

Flash Tutorials (link)

July 7, 2008

Class 3: Properties, Methods and Events

Properties, Methods and Events

Faux PONG source code + notes (link)

Display Objects

Example and documentation (link)

July 8, 2008

Scrolling Panorama

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)

July 9, 2008

Creative Juices....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYwTELj-fs

Quake C-Code running in the flash plugin

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

Class 4


Here is the work file for today's class: link

July 14, 2008

Class 5: Arrays & Objects

We will be working with arrays, collision detection + object.
Download file

July 21, 2008

Class 6/7: OOP, Text, Sound

Download the class work files

OOP (link) View image

Text (link)
Sound (link)

July 28, 2008

Class 9: Video, Drawing API

Video

Example Source

Web cam motion tracking
Example on YouTube
Demos/Tutorials
Game

Vector Drawing

Class Examples
Exercise

Pen Pad
Good Tutorial


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July 30, 2008

Class 10: Sidescroller

Jets n' Guns

August 4, 2008

Sketch #5: Sidescroller

Jeremy H Lach
Amanda G Athanasiou
Adrian Wisernig
Lincoln D Bryant
Steve Klebanoff
Daniel Gonyea
Feras IskanderanI
Adam Cooperman

BitmapData

Book examples (link)

Class Files (link)

Bitmap caching
The BitmapData Class
Blend modes
Bitmap filters.
Color Changes
Image Encoding

Moock (link)

GotoAndLearn: BitmapData (link)

Examples
Lava Lamp
Particles
Visual Effects
Blur/Fade
Collision Detection

August 6, 2008

Loading External Data


Loading External Data ( Example Files)


Quiz! (link)

August 11, 2008

Using XML in Flash

gotoAndLearn Video Tutorial on AS3 & XML (link)
Example files from the tutorial (link)

Example files from the book Learning Actionscript 3 (link)

Wikipedia entry on XML (link)
W3 tutorial on XML (link)

Going Further: Using External Libraries
List of APIs from Adobe (link)
Google Maps (examples) (link)
AS 3 Flickr API (link)
Papervision (link) installing (link)

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