Breakout / Arkanoid

[Loopmix]

Hi there!

In here, I have been looking for any Breakout / Arkanoid - .fla files that provide a little information about using "powerups" in the game. But i couldn´t find anything useful, except this file http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Games...05/index.shtml It is a little Breakout version, but it also has no POWERUP functions and i think it becomes boring after a while...

I want to realize only a small part of this great version: http://www.cre8ive-grafx.de/flashout2/index2.html

You guessed it -> the powerups...

So, is anybody out there able to add just a little powerup to the above X-Ball file ? I´d really appreciate your help !

Thank you in advance,

Julia

[Loopmix]

hey it´s me again, and i found a site, which used the original X-Ball .fla from flashkit.com, and they added powerups... etc ! (You can see that´s it is from here) Here´s the link: http://www.creative-flow.com/games/a...cs/bricks.html


Is it so difficult to create extra functions ???

Bye bye
Julia

[Ray Beez]

It's VERY easy.

So do it.

[Mad-Sci]

Ok this is what you can try.

1. create the powerups Mcs outside of the stage.
2. in each brick mc:

when thre is a collision --- generate a random number let say 1-5 if it hapans to be 3 for example, pick a random powerup..duplicate it so it moves down---remove the brick.

you have to script each power up separately. for example:

if the pad will expand you can use _root.pad._xscale upon collision with the pad.

and remove the power up with removeMovieClip();.

mad_sci

[Loopmix]

Hey cool, thank you guys finally, somebody wrote an answer !!

Thanks for your help !


Julia

[creativeflow]

hey cool someone link to my site OK so I'm easily impressed.

I was looking for an answer to a collision problem and cam accross your post, seeing as how I am in the middle of writing a new breakout clone i though I would share some code with you.

I placed the prize mc's in the main timeline and then when a brick is destroyed it calls this function

// Prize generation function
function spawn_prize (targetx, targety) {
tmp_prize = random(125);
if (tmp_prize>98 && tmp_prize<100) {
duplicateMovieClip ("_root.prize_l", "prize" add _root.prize_layer, _root.prize_layer+500);
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._x = targetx;
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._Y = targety;
_root.prize_layer++;
} else if (tmp_prize>50 && tmp_prize<75) {
duplicateMovieClip ("_root.prize_m", "prize" add _root.prize_layer, _root.prize_layer+500);
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._x = targetx;
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._Y = targety;
_root.prize_layer++;
} else if (tmp_prize>75 && tmp_prize<100) {
duplicateMovieClip ("_root.prize_s", "prize" add _root.prize_layer, _root.prize_layer+500);
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._x = targetx;
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._Y = targety;
_root.prize_layer++;
} else if (tmp_prize>100 && tmp_prize<125) {
duplicateMovieClip ("_root.prize_f", "prize" add _root.prize_layer, _root.prize_layer+500);
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._x = targetx;
eval("_root.prize" add _root.prize_layer)._Y = targety;
_root.prize_layer++;
}
}


Each prize mc then handles it's own movement and awards the according prize depending on what it should be.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Clayton
http://www.creative-flow.com

[Loopmix]

Hi Clayton,

thank you very much for your answer. I am still confused of this "power-up" thing. I think it is very hard to understand action-script from someone other´s. - Or is this just me who is quite unable to write some good action-script ?

So, I wanted to ask you to send me a very small .fla - file that explains itself ? I really don´t know how to build your AS into my movie. Hmmm, bye for now and thank you in advance

Julia