Flash Game Tuts

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 7

Welcome back! This part of the tutorial is where we just add all of the finishing touches to the game! Unlike the other parts of the tutorial, I won’t comment any of the code I give you, as the knowledge you have learned from this tutorial should tell you what’s going on. Luckily for you, [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 6

Welcome to the 6th part of the tutorial, Expanding on the Game! Well, what do I mean by “Expanding”? Well, by expanding, I mean that we’re going to create more enemies and more levels. Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? The first thing we’re going to do before creating stronger enemies is to make the enemies [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 5

Welcome back to the 5th installment of this tutorial series. In this lesson, we’ll make some playable levels, along with a winning and losing situation. Let’s dig in, shall we? Lets start off by opening up the main source file. Find where this code is: enemyArray = [//defining the array [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],//1's will just represent an [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 4

Well, it’s now time to let the enemies we just created be destroyed. Let’s dig in, shall we? First, we’ll define a single health variable for the Enemy. Just add this code to “Enemy.as” where we define all of the variables: public var health:int = 5; Next, we’re going to have to create a new [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 3

Welcome back. In this part of the tutorial, we are going to add enemies to the field and we’re going to program them to move through the paths. Let us begin by first creating an Enemy class. Do this by creating a new external ActionScript file saved as “Enemy.as” and adding the following code to [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 2

Okay, so in this part of the tutorial, we are going to make it so when the user clicks on any of the empty blocks, a turret is created. The first step to take in to create a Turret class. You know the drill, create a new ActionScript File, save it as “Turret.as”, and type [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3 – Part 1

The tower defense genre is one that has become extremely popular over the years. Although they can become quite complicated to develop, they are almost always very fun to play. I am here to walk you through the creation of one of these games. Let us begin, shall we? In this section of the tutorial, [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS2 – Part 7

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS2 – Part 6

Welcome to the 6th part of the tutorial, Expanding on the Game! Well, what do I mean by “Expanding”? Well, by expanding, I mean that we’re going to create more enemies and more levels. Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Open up “source.fla” and find the makeEnemies function. We’re going to have some major renovations to [...]

How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS2 – Part 5