building a flash game?? help please.

[in the end]

Hi there.

I'm looking into making a flash game, but im not to sure where to start.


The basic idea is to have an person scroll left to right trying to catch things falling from random places from the top of the screen.
There will be two object falling. One object (object 1) should add to the score and the other object (object 2) would be taking away from the score, more or less.

The idea is that if they got to much of either object the game would be over. They user would have to maintain a healthy medium between the two.

Also, the persons graphic would increase if they had two much of object 1 and would decrease when they have object two.

I hope this makes sense. And I hope someone here would be able to help me out with some links to tutorials and such..


Like I said... I've never made a game before. But I am pretty good with flash.

Thanks

[in the end]

[in the end]

Originally posted by in the end

[catbert303]

here's some basic functions that should help a little, it uses a clip with 2 frames, the 2 frames contain the graphics for the different types of objects.

/* a function to define some variables ready for use in the game */
function setUp() {
    clips = new Array();
    i = 0;
    delay = 3000; // 3 seconds between clips 
    nextClipTime = 0;
}

function createClip() {
    if (getTimer() > nextClipTime) { // space out the clips
        if (Math.random() < 0.5) { // a 50% chance of a new clip to make the fall of clips a little less uniform
            duplicateMovieClip(_root.instanceName,"newClip" + i, i); // where the clip you want to duplicate has the instance name instanceName
            _root["newClip" + i]._x = Math.round(Math.random() * 500); // random x position
            _root["newClip" + i]._y = -25; // position off the top of the stage 
               _root["newClip" + i].gotoAndStop(Math.ceil(Math.random() * 2)); // pick a random frame
            clips.push(_root["newClip" + i]); // add the clip to an array
            i++;
            nextClipTime = getTimer() + delay; // no new clips for at least 3 seconds (assuming delay is 3000)
        }
    }
}

function moveClips() {
    for (var j = clips.length - 1; j > -1; --j) { // loop backwards through the array of clips
        if (clips[j]._y < 400) { // if the clip hasn't disappeared off the bottom of the screen, keep it moving
            clips[j]._y += 5;
         } else if (clips[j].hitTest(_root.player)) { // player is the player movie clip
             if (clips[j]._currentframe == 1) { // do actions for that type of object

             } else { // do the actions for the other tyupe f object

             }
         }
        } else { // otherwise remove the clip and remove it from the array
            clips[j].removeMovieClip();
            clips.splice(j, 1);
        }
    }
}

you can then add a movie clip to run these functions... from a clip event on this clip use,

onClipEvent(load) {
    _root.setUp();
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
    _root.createClip();
    _root.moveClips();
}

hope this helps get you started