Text Based Game

[Hurdarr]

Hi,

I'm trying to get into flash game developing (without a programming background) and for my first project, I thought creating a simple game like Text 4 Dead (or Don't **** your pants) to be a good bet.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to start it. Anyone has any idea how the developers of the mentioned games did it? Did they just created a bunch of frames on the timeline and every time someone writes the right words on the prompt it takes them to the next frame?

And how do you create a prompt itself to accept the commands and guide you around the game?

Sorry for so many questions, but I spent quite a while on Google and came back empty-handed.

Thanks.

P.S: I'm not sure if this was the right forum to post. If not, sorry.

[sstalder]

I would suggest checking out www.gotoandplay.com and www.kirupa.com to learn the basics. Once you have a grasp on that then shoot for creating a simple game.

[Hurdarr]

Hi sstalder,

I already visited both sites you mentioned and didn't found anything useful. Most of the content I read was outdated/poorly explained/confusing/incomplete. Unfortunately, there are very few sites out there with good quality as 3.0 tutorials. People seem afraid of as 3.0.

Unfortunately, at this point I'm not interested in creating a clone of pong, snake, tetris, asteroids or a basic shooter. I want to start with something simpler than that, but I can't find documentation that can help me.

Now, the games I mentioned on the first post of this thread are rather simple. A tutorial showing how to build a similar game would be wonderful but apparently there isn't any. And yes, there are tiny bits of code here and there would probably help if I had a little more experience.

That's why I asked the following

Unfortunately, I don't know how to start it. Anyone has any idea how the developers of the mentioned games did it? Did they just created a bunch of frames on the timeline and every time someone writes the right words on the prompt it takes them to the next frame?

And how do you create a prompt itself to accept the commands and guide you around the game?

If I knew the answers of these questions answered, at least I knew what I needed to learn and research.

Thanks anyway.

[neznein9]

Writing a text game in flash is actually a fairly tricky proposition...to get the tools to start you'll need an input field and a large multiline output field.

Here are the two APIs you'll need:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/...TextInput.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/...TextField.html

You'll also want to read up on Strings and working with text:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/...V3/String.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionSc...0204-7d8f.html

[sstalder]

To add onto neznein's comments...

Once you are familiar with manipulating text fields and strings I suggest using TweenLite (google it) to perform your moving / tweening operations. They have a lot of examples that could also help you out on their site.