Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
92 pong:control:5
1 pong:control:9
343 pong:control:10
Event Sounds: 11KHz Mono 16 kbps MP3
Sound name Bytes Format
----------------------- --------- ----------
Pulselec.wav 639 11KHz Mono 16 kbps MP3
Another thing to notice in the Movie Report is the use of a small sound file. At less than 1 K the
‘bip’ sound when the ball hits the bat is well worth including.
When you are creating small loader games you want to be able to easily port them to another
game. For this reason a loader game should be a self-contained movie clip. It is best not to access
any ‘_root’ level variable because then you can place this game anywhere. A new feature of Flash
MX 2004 is the ability to localize a _root to within the current document. When loading the
movie clip into a container use the following code:
onClipEvent (load){
this._lockroot =true;
}
This ensures that references to _root in the game will refer the timeline of the original document,
not the actual root timeline of the container.swf.
Pong uses seven layers:
sound: Used for the single sound effect, which is embedded inside the movie clip, sfx.
This way it can be triggered easily from code. An alternative method would be
to use a ‘Sound’ object, but movie clips work fine.
score: The score is just a dynamic text box that tracks the variable ‘pongScore’.
mask: Used to contain the ball within the frame.
ball: Containing the ball movie clip.
board: Containing the board and the bat movie clip.
bg: Containing the background design.
control: Containing all the ActionScript that controls the game.
Graphically the game could not be simpler, but the design could easily be changed to reflect
the main game for which Pong is being used as just an entertaining loader. The main interest
then is in the coding. For this game all the code is contained in the main timeline. There
are no ‘onClipEvent’s or nested movie clips that contain code. The code is set in four frame
actions.
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