Conquer the Universe With ActionScript 3.0 and the Flixel Game Engine: Part 1

Nov 20th in Games, Screencasts by Shane Johnson
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The Flixel game engine is an opensource ActionScript 3.0 framework written by Adam Atomic. Its aim is to take the donkey work out of building AS3 games, leaving you with all the fun stuff and saving heaps of time!

In this, the first in a series of two screencasts, Shane Johnson takes you through the basics of Flixel, explaining how to build an awesome shoot ‘em up game from scratch.

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Create a Dynamic Slideshow with Actionscript 3.0 and XML – Part 3

Sep 9th in ActionScript, Screencasts, XML by Pierre Laveklint
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Time to implement labels and navigation to our Slideshow Application. We’ll go over a lot in this third and final part of the series. This screencast is almost one and a half hours in total, so sit back, open up your files from Part 2 and let’s dig in!

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Superimpose a Rain Storm Effect on Lake Obatanga

Jul 29th in Screencasts by Tom Green
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In this, Tom’s first screencast for Flashtuts+, he takes you camping with him to Northern Ontario. To add an extra touch of atmosphere, he demonstrates applying a moody rain storm effect to lake Obatanga – all without a single line of ActionScript.

During this screencast you’ll be taken through working with a range of Adobe CS applications including Fireworks, After Effects, SoundBooth and (of course) Flash.

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Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML: Part 2

Jul 8th in Screencasts by Pierre Laveklint
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During its first two months, Part 1 of Pierre’s slideshow screencast pulled in over 30,000 unique pageviews, making it the most frequently visited post on Flashtuts+ to date. The comments and requests came flooding in, so back by popular demand, here’s Part 2!

Read on to see what’s in store during this, the second of three installments.

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Create an RSS Reader With a Custom XMLLoader Class

May 11th in Screencasts by Clemente Gomez
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Those of you who’ve already downloaded the Flashtuts+ freebie XMLLoader Class 3.0 will know what a handy tool it can be. In this screencast, its author Clemente Gomez will take you through some features of the XMLLoader Class, building a useful multi-RSS reader in the process. Make some time, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy..

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Assemble a Nifty Twitter Widget using Flash and the Twitter API

May 8th in Screencasts, Widgets by Shane Johnson
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Flash will work neatly in combination with the Twitter API to create a Twitter widget for any webpage. Follow Shane Johnson (@ultravisual) as he demonstrates building an interface, pulling in specific XML data and tackling cross-domain policy issues..

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Create an Attractive Flash Video Player

Apr 24th in Screencasts by flashjunkie
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In this tutorial FlashDen Top 100 author flashjunkie shows you how to create a slick Flash video player without typing a single line of code. The video player allows you to pause, play, scrub through video and adjust volume. We hope you enjoy this screencast tutorial!

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Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

Apr 20th in Screencasts by Pierre Laveklint
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In this screencast I’ll show you how to create a dynamic slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and how to grab the images from an xml file. We’ll keep the FLA empty except for the path to our Document Class and also create a custom class that will act as the engine for the slideshow. This is a file you can use over and over again, I hope you find it useful!

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Create a Fully Customizable Scrollbar in Flash

Mar 30th in Screencasts by Shane Johnson
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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a customizable scrollbar in Flash. The scrollbar will move targeted assets from left to right smoothly and would integrate well with a simple image gallery. Shane uses Flash CS4 but the technique is also compatible with CS3.

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