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How to write an adventure game in ActionScript

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How to write an adventure game in ActionScript

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How to write an adventure game in ActionScript. You can program adventure games in many different programming languages, as I've explained in previous tutorials. Here I will show how to start writing a text adventure game using the ActionScript language for Adobe Flash.

For my series on programming adventure games (in multiple programming languages) see my 'How To Program an Adventure Game' playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHx5heVfgEvHXx6_LCT…

An in-depth article on the ActionScript project shown in this video can be found on the Bitwise Magazine web site: bitwisemag.com/2/How-to-write-an-adventure-game…

Here I show how to create a simple Room class to define each location in a game. Instead of creating a Map (an array) to hold Rooms, I show how each Room can contain references to other Room objects so that you can go straight to a named Room from the 'exit' of the current Room.

Note I have a separate video explaining some approaches to creating a 'map' of Room objects for an adventure game: youtu.be/bzhj2T3Idgc

The ActionScript languages can be used to program standalone applications using Adobe AIR or programs that are embedded into web pages. They can be created using Adobe's Flash technology or Apache's Flex framework. In this video, I create a simple Flash form-based application using SapphireSteel Software's Amethyst ActionScript IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio. You can download a trial edition of Amethyst from the SapphireSteel Software web site: sapphiresteel.com/

For a quick overview of Amethyst, see this video: youtu.be/qbVV5aLtLrg

Be sure to subscribe to the Bitwise Courses YouTube channel to keep up to date with tutorials on programming in ActionScript, Ruby, C, C#, Java, Delphi (Object Pascal) and other programming languages: : youtube.com/BitwiseCourses

For in-depth programming tutorials, see the Bitwise Courses web site: bitwisecourses.com/

The music in this video was composed by Nic Croll. For more of Nic's music, visit: nicolascroll.com/

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  • How To Write an ActionScript Adventure Game sapphiresteel.com

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  • actionscript 3 - organization of adventure game with Flash ... stackoverflow.com

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  • 13 Tips For Writing a Good Text Adventure Game | davidepesce.com davidepesce.com

    Old school text adventure games had physical manuals that taught the player things like how to install the game, an introduction to the story and also things like which commands you should use to move, to use items, etc…

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