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Ever wondered how to create an under-water bubble effect in Flash? Well wonder no more! With a few simple steps, you’ll have a nice editable file like this:

And you can easily set the volume, speed and size of the bubbles to suit your needs!
Well lets get started.
STEP 1
Create a new Actionscript 2 file and set [...]

Well, what can I say. I know i’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front lately, but I have been working hard to sort out certain aspects of this site, and details of a new project! The game has taken a bit of a back seat lately, which is not ideal but the results [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a realistic smoke/fog effect in flash. This is useful for adding atmosphere to images, games and pretty much whatever you fancy! Your final result will be similar to this:

STEP 1
Create a new flash file, set the framerate to 30 for a smooth animation. Next, import [...]

This is just a quick tutorial on enabling transparency in your flash files. For example, in this site menu at the top the orange dropdown buttons are in a flash file with a transparent background, to allow for the shape of the page to show through. Without the flash buttons, the site looks like this:

With [...]

Following some requests I now bring you a flash tutorial on more advanced flash game movement and hit testing. It will help if you have completed the Basic Game Movement tutorial, as it is this I am going to be expanding on. Your final result will look similar to this:

STEP 1
Open a new actionscript file, [...]

This is a simple tutorial for creating a realtime anologue clock. We will not focus on graphics at this point, just getting a working clock. By the end of this tutorial you will have a working clock similar to this:

STEP 1
Create a new flash file and rename layer 1 to ‘clock’.
On this layer we need [...]

Starting and stopping a flash movieclip is simple, but very useful. For this tutorial I have created an example (below) for you to have a play with using our old friend ‘blob’ from earlier tutorials. You will need a pre-created animated movie clip for this tutorial.

STEP 1
Start a new actionscript 2 file, set the framerate [...]

This is a quick tutorial to show you how to banish the standard mouse cursor and replace it with you own creation in two VERY simple steps! Your end result will be somthing like this:

STEP 1
Open a new actionscript 2 file, set the framerate to 30 and rename layer 1 to ‘cursor’. Create a new [...]

In this tutorial we are goin to expand on the previous preloaders tutorial by adding a loading bar and percentage counter. If you have not completed the previous tutorial, please click here! Your end result will be something like this:

STEP 1
Create a new actionscript 2 file, change the framerate to 30 and rename layer 1 [...]

Preloaders are something that most online flash work will require, as you never know what speed connection any particular visitor will have when visiting your site! In this tutorial I will show you the basic code for a preloader with no fancy graphics (i’ll save that for a future tutorial to create some funky preloaders).
STEP [...]