Drawing, Animating and Scripting an Interactive Character – The Projects

A nice and simple one this month. If you’re a Flash newbie, this is the one for you. If you’re already fairly proficient, skip to the last section for a tutorial on following the mouse cursor with the character’s eyes.

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Game highlight – Rebuild

A great zombie-apocalypse indie game here. There is a sequel… but you just can’t beat originals! Retake your town, one square at a time.

 

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Randomly Generated Hills – Show Your Class

It’s mini-competition time!

I’m hoping that there are now enough of you watching these videos to make some healthy competition possible. Using the Randomly Generated Hills tutorial and resulting classes, I want you to make something impressive to share with other readers/viewers.

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Randomly Generated Hills – The Projects

Kicking off the new year with a new tutorial series: The Projects!

In the first of these monthly tutorials, I’ll show you how to make randomly generated hills and peaks using the graphics object inside the Sprite class. The final section of the video smoothes the hills off by using the BezierSegment class to interpolate between the peaks and troughs. Enjoy!

As a first for my tutorials, I’ve provided the source and an example of it in use.

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Sample file:

I’ve tried to put a bit more effort into a smaller tutorial this time, hopefully the result is better than any 1 video from the Point, Click, Win! series and is easier to jump into and follow along. Excuse the hideous attempt at making music and the less than spectacular video editing – I’m learning too ;)

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Happy holidays

I’ll be sat in a corner somewhere eating chocolate, playing my 3DS and wearing embarrassing jumpers for the rest of the year, so I’ll leave you with this video and see you in 2012. Plenty more tutorials, games and random waffle to come next year :)

Bye for now!

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