Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
Enhancements
As ‘Examples\Chapter18\Football.fla’ stands, there are many enhancements that could be made
to greatly improve the game. The game needs a team strip chooser to enable the user to choose a
team. There is no defined end to the game, and there should be a change of ends at half time and
a final whistle. Running into an opponent could be regarded as a foul and a free kick given. The
game needs crowd noises and music.
The collision code is all the code necessary to create a snooker game; the balls can be made
to bounce off each other using the collision function in the ball object. It is left to the interested
reader to create a snooker, pool or pinball game based on this collision code.
Summary
The code in this chapter presents the greatest challenge to the reader. Some of the tests involved
in the collision detection use vector math results that are likely to push many readers’ maths to the
limit. By all means just strip out the code and get it working for you without worrying unduly
how the code achieves its results. If you are interested in the methods then read up more on vector
math, because there is a lot of interesting stuff out there for you to make use of in your games. In
the next section we look at how you can create Flash games for players on the move.
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