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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 6 of 6

By Mark On December 30, 2012 · Add Comment

6: Adding sound effects An introduction to this tutorial series is given in part 1. Parts in the series include: 1: Creating a player-controlled ship 2: Coding the bullets to fire 3: Spawning enemies with basic AI 4: Recognising the hits 5: Scoring and lives 6: Adding sound effects Tools & Techniques: incorporating sounds, increasing difficulty [...]

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 5 of 6

By Mark On October 1, 2012 · Add Comment

5: Scoring and lives An introduction to this tutorial series is given in part 1. Parts in the series include: 1: Creating a player-controlled ship 2: Coding the bullets to fire 3: Spawning enemies with basic AI 4: Recognising the hits 5: Scoring and lives 6: Adding sound effects Tools & Techniques: displaying results in textboxes, [...]

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 4 of 6

By Mark On September 30, 2012 · Add Comment

4: Recognising the hits An introduction to this tutorial series is given in part 1. Parts in the series include: 1: Creating a player-controlled ship 2: Coding the bullets to fire 3: Spawning enemies with basic AI 4: Recognising the hits 5: Scoring and lives 6: Adding sound effects Tools & Techniques: Hit-Tests, nested FOR loops [...]

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 3 of 6

By Mark On September 28, 2012 · Add Comment

3: Spawning enemies with basic AI An introduction to this tutorial series is given in part 1. Parts in the series include: 1: Creating a player-controlled ship 2: Coding the bullets to fire 3: Spawning enemies with basic AI 4: Recognising the hits 5: Scoring and lives 6: Adding sound effects Tools & Techniques: random numbers [...]

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 2 of 6

By Mark On September 26, 2012 · Add Comment

2: Coding bullets to fire An introduction to this tutorial is given in part 1. Parts in the series include: 1: Creating a player-controlled ship 2: Coding the bullets to fire 3: Spawning enemies with basic AI 4: Recognising the hits 5: Scoring and lives 6: Adding sound effects Variables: Arrays (multiple values denoted by [...]

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 1 of 6

By Mark On September 25, 2012 · 2 Comments

1: Creating a player-controlled ship This post is part of a series which will take you through the steps required to build your own Spaceship Shooter game in ActionScript 3. The instructions have been adapted from an ActionScript 2 tutorial passed on by a work colleague. Whilst the original source is unknown, thevirtualinstructor.com tutorial appears to be [...]

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Why your business should take on a Social Digital Apprentice

By Mark On September 5, 2012 · Add Comment

There are lots of articles on the web about why social media is important to businesses, but perhaps you don’t know where to start, don’t quite believe the hype, or perhaps you are simply too busy. Perhaps an apprentice who would act as your digital assistant would be the answer. I provide here a list of [...]

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Sharing WordPress Blogs on Twitter and LinkedIn

By Mark On August 15, 2012 · Add Comment

Having now setup my new Blogging website at MarkBennison.com, the next stage was to be able to share my posts on LinkedIn and/or Twitter. This post really serves as a “HELLO WORLD” test run for these services. A ‘great’ WordPress plugin called ‘Publicize‘ appears to be what I want, but I don’t seem to be able [...]

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Social Media Icons (Free to Download)

By Mark On August 11, 2012 · Add Comment

I have started to create some social media icons using Adobe Illustrator. The first ones I have created are shown below and I would be happy for anyone who wishes to use them to do so (referencing this site would be appreciated). I may create some more in the near future, and perhaps I’ll start [...]

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Manufacturing Art in Adobe Illustrator

By Mark On August 8, 2012 · Add Comment

This picture is an incomplete design I was building up from a range of tutorials using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I followed a tutorial by Vaclav to create the yellow helmet, and then added the logo from Middlesbrough College. I note the ridge in the centre did not seem to come out right in the [...]

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 6 of 6

Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 5 of 6

Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 4 of 6

Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 3 of 6

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Space Shooter: AS3 Tutorial 1 of 6

Social Media Icons (Free to Download)

Manufacturing Art in Adobe Illustrator

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