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Well before you say it, no I have not been slack! I have had a few computer issues this last week or so but hopefully sorted now. I have however prior to that been working on my game, and to a degree of success! The first level is complete, as well as scraps for the [...]

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use motion guides. These basically create a ‘path’ that a movieclip will follow, without you having to animate all of the frames at turning points etc. Your final result will be something like this:
EXAMPLE
STEP 1
First off as always we need to set up our stage. [...]

Madness! I have decided my PC hates me. I have had a good few problems with it lately, hence the lack of updates. I would give details but i fear if i do the PC will hear me, take offence, and die all over again. In saying that, it is now fixed (hopefully not just [...]

Easing Revealed
In this tutorial I will explain how easing works in relationship to the Tween class either in AS3 and AS2 and how you can easily modify existing easing classes to fit your needs or create your own easing methods. To understand this tutorial you should at least know how to use a tween in [...]

For those of you who have completed the basic buttons tutorial, this will show you a few neat tricks to making you buttons look much more interesting, and you’ll want to play with them for hours! (Depending wether you have a girlfriend or not…) Anyway, here’s what you’ll end up with:

EXAMPLE <— Click to see [...]

If your reading this your probably either new to web design, or still using tables and deciding it’s time to move on, after all tables are for tabular data, not layout structure!
What is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet - but to put it simply it is where you can add style to your page. [...]

Hi guys!
Well it’s been a great first month, although some of you may have noticed my site down a few times! Due to the traffic volumes I was recieving I have had to move to a high speed server, so fingers crossed the site should stay alive now! If you do notice any problems though [...]

This is a question I have been asked before, and remember asking myself about 10 Months ago. I had heard them mentioned, but failed to see how they could be useful. How wrong I was! What we are going to do here is learn why frame labels are awesome, and just how useful they can [...]

This is a fairly basic tutorial, to show you how some basic actionscript can be used to alter a movie clips position. Your final result (in about 5 mins!) will be something like this:
EXAMPLE <— Click here for an example
Nothing fancy, but it does its job. Well, let us begin!
STEP 1
First of all as always, [...]

I came across an interesting question on a forum this week, which inspired me to write this short but useful tutorial on two ways to link URL’s to movie clips & buttons.
This is useful for linking from a flash file to an external site, the final result is this:
EXAMPLE <— Click here to see the [...]