Another day (or two), another tutorial complete.

This game is based around the idea of an Air Raid, using an anti-aircraft gun to shoot planes out of the sky as they pass over.

Air Raid

When I found this tutorial in the book, I was looking forward to completing it so I could compare it with my own efforts to build a similar game.

Shape Invaders

Vastly different as I’m sure you’ll agree. Nope, don’t expect any more large circles to appear, there is only one, once it’s gone, it’s gone.

Although basic, however, I do feel that my attempt was quite good, and had I decided to work upon it more, I could have got something far better with multiple enemies, etc. I’m glad I didn’t attempt to finish it as I’ve now discovered that I was not doing as well as I could have, and have learnt a lot about how ActionScript works thanks to the tutorial.

Next tutorial is creating a paddle game similar to Breakout – but before I do that (after a couple hours playing Alone in the Dark and chilling out), I’m going to attempt to make a ball roll. Sounds easy right? We’ll see.

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