Game Design: Basic Game Creation Part 1

• Game Design: Level Design at St. Dominic College of Asia, School of Communication, Multimedia, and Computer Studies: Basic Game Creation Part 1

Course Introduction

• The syllabus and production timeline will be reviewed
• System requirements will be covered
• There will be system requirements
• Game exhibit

Prelim Agenda

• Week 2 Lecture will include an animation recap, discuss symbols and instance names, and cover object-oriented programming and variables.

Prelim AS 3.0 Comprehensive Workshop Topics

• Week 2 Part 1 will cover animation, symbols/instance names, object-oriented programming and variables.
• Week 3 Part 2 focuses on spaceship movement via cursor and bullets using the addChild Method
• Weeks 4-5 Part 3 involves enemy ships using HitTestObject, their movement and scoring using Math.random

Animation Recap

• Review of shooting bullets animation

Symbols and Instance Names

• Properties like Tool, Object, Frame, and Doc are used
• Objects are assigned a Movie Clip with an specific Instance name.

Object Oriented Programming

• Object.property = value
• Instance names of all scriptable objects in the workspace should be tracked.
• Press F9 to launch coding window.
• Adobe Animate/Flash follows the script's commands
• This morphs the circle in the script even if a circle was drawn

Variables

• Variables and Functions includes strings, integers, and floats
• Random text can be transformed into a string, integer and float character
• Instance Name = textFunction
• String Variables are text characters

Variable Script Examples

• Example script:

stop();
var stringText: String = "Hello World";
textFunction.text = stringText;

• Integer Variables: whole number characters, without decimal points
• Integer Variable Script example:

stop();
var stringText:int = 100;
textFunction.text = String(stringText);

• Float (Number) Variables: number characters, including decimal points
• Float Variable Script example:

stop();
var stringText: Number = 99.99;
textFunction.text = String(stringText);

An introductory lesson to basic game creation. Topics covered include animation, symbols, object-oriented programming and variables. Game design principles and spaceship movement are also discussed.