Summary
Adobe Flash is an authoring environment used to build interactive games, activities, simulations and Web sites. It is an excellent platform for creating animated content, and Internet professionals use it extensively. As you develop your own interactive production skills, you'll want to know how to use Flash.
To get started, download a free trail version of the Flash CS3 Pro program from Adobe. Then try these beginner and intermediate level tutorials. Or check out the activities in PLAY, LEARN and EXPLORE, and try out the "Try This" challenges underneath each activity.
Software
- Web browser with Flash plug-in version 8 or higher
- Flash 8
Learning Topics
- Frame by Frame Animation
- Motion Tween
- Shape Tween
- Movie Clip Symbol
- Graphic Symbol
- Flash Library
- MyGLife.org Custom Tutorials
- An Introduction to the Flash interface
- Creating a simple Flash file tutorial (video clip)
- Creating a simple Flash document
- A Beginner's Introduction to the Flash MX 2004 Drawing Tools
- Designing and Animating Characters in Flash
- Adobe's online help on using Flash drawing tools
- A collection of short clips on the different Flash drawing tools
- Drawing in Flash basics
- Adobe clip that shows you how to draw using the shape tools
- Edit Flash Images: Change Fly Catcher background (Custom tutorial)
- How To Make New Layers in Flash (video clip)
- Learn how to work on layers in Flash
- Introduction to layers in Flash
- Introduction to the Flash Timeline
- Creating a Flash movie with multiple scenes (video clip)
- How to create a Flash movie with multiple game scenes (video clip)
- Flash Video Tutorial on Buttons
- Common Mistakes with creating actions for buttons.
- How to make an interactive button in Flash (video)
- Learn how to add navigation buttons to your game scenes (video)
- Frame by frame animation in flash
- Creating a simple animation
- Introduction to the Flash Timeline
- How to Animate using Frames and Keyframes
- Creating a Flash Movie with Multiple scenes (video clip)
- Change the speed of the e-Card animations (custom tutorial)
- Make movement animation with Motion Tweening
- Motion Tweening and easing
- Step by Step Motion Tweening
- Add sound to an animation (video clip)
- How to add sound to a button (video clip)
- Create a simple Flash music on and off button
- Sound Toys
- Sound Dogs
- Flash Kit Sound Loops
- Flash Kit Sound Effects
- Conditional Statements
- Switch() and Case Statements
- Loops
- Introduction to Functions
- Introducing ActionScript Objects
- Coding character movement with the arrow keys
- Learn about keyboard based movement (video clip)
- Key Class
- Dart Shooter
- Game Movement [the basics] - Part 1
- Actionscript Code Framework for a Flash Movie
- Use Comments in Actionscript (MyGLife.org Custom Tutorial)
- Simple Preloaders (Custom tutorial)
- How to use Timeline Effects (video)
- Timeline effects
- Flash special effects tutorial
- Download for sample text effects
- Code a scrolling background
- Create animations with ActionScript (video)
- Character Movement With the Arrow Keys
- Using playhead commands to control objects in a movie
- Introduction to ActionScript Animation in Flash
- Flash Tips for Basic Motion
- Introduction to the Flash Timeline
- Introduction to Keyframes
- How to Animate with Frames and Keyframes
- Creating a Flash Movie with Multiple scenes (video)
- ActionScript Assignment
- Change the values of variables (Custom Tutorial)
- Adjust the hit area of the frog's tongue (Custom Tutorial)
- Learn how to trace variables (Custom Tutorial)
- Add simple score functionality
- Hit Test (collision detection)
- Adjust the hit area on the frog's tongue (Flycatcher - Custom tutorial)
- Delays, Timers, and Stop Watches
- Creating a digital timer in flash
- Create a timer with ActionScript with a start and stop function
- Create fade effects while the animation is playing (custom tutorial)
- Change a movie clip's properties using ActionScript
- Complete list of movie clip properties
- ActionScript Dictionary
- Cartoon Builder (Custom tutorial)
- Adding drag and drop
- How to do Drag and Drop
- Tutorial on flash Drag and Drop
- Download source code : Static platform (fla file)
- Download source code: Moving platform (fla file)
- Tutorial on creating a platform game
- Explore this MyGLife custom tutorial file, Scuba Diver
- Tutorial on the structure of ActionScript on the keypress function
- Keypress and gotoAndPlay function
- Enemy following mouse
- Enemy AI in a platform game
- Download FLA file for the Platform game tutorial
- Examples of enemy AI ActionScript (Flycatcher - custom tutorial)