Flash Tutorials by TonyPa

Isometric scrolling is no different from the normal top-down view.

Keeping the hero in the center is all fine until we move at the border of map, then we start to see some ugly background outside of the map. You can make this problem disappear, if you build wall tiles inside your map, preventing heros from approaching to the edge.

Before we start to scroll, we must make one thing very clear. Flash is slow. Flash is extremely slow. Scrolling means moving hundreds of tiles on screen and it should happen 20-30 times in second.

Gather up, boys and girls, for today I am going to tell you a little story about moving tiles.

In this chapter we will look how to make our hero to pick up some items from the ground.

Lets see how we can shoot the enemy

The enemy will walk on the platform and detect the end of platform. In the end enemy will turn around and walk back.

Good games have smart enemies, but we will start with simple dumb enemies.

Ladders are common form of movement in platform games. Hero can use ladders to climb up or down (I bet you didnt know that).

Many games have "cloud" type of walls, they allow hero to move through them from left or right and also jump up, but when hero is falling down, he will stand on it.