EXPLOSION and SCORE on MAC

[amgine]

My name is John, a 3rd year graphics student, venturing into flash with a simple "shoot aliens" game.

Please forgive my newbie questions but I was suggested to ask here!

I am using Flash5 on a Macintosh.

I would like to create a top 10 high score list with names and scores.

There will be an acumulated score and I would like the person, after the game is over, to enter a name and the name to be saved with the score, in a list.

ALSO

What would be the best way to create moderately realistic explosion?!

How would be the best way to do these?!

Does anyone have scripts for these or a game that I can borrow a piece of?!

Feel free to EMAIL or IM me!

Thankyou for the help!

[me2222]

highscoring needs a perl or php solution like captain kory's scorekeeper (i use it in my game):
http://www.kaptainkorysworld.com/sof...per/index.html

to create realistic explosions you have to use a series of animated bitmaps like this
http://www.animatedgif.net/fireexplo...plosion_e0.gif

ciao
m

[SJT]

If you're thinking making a standalone game, you have to use Flash MX, you can't write variables to disk with 5 or earlier.