Ryan's Tech Blog » flash http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog mostly tech, mostly rants Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:42:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 First flash game is out! http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2008/03/13/first-flash-game-is-out/ http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2008/03/13/first-flash-game-is-out/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:12:34 +0000 ryan http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2008/03/13/first-flash-game-is-out/ We finally pushed our first flash game, Celest, out the door at work! The project was quite a learning experience. The point of the game is to get a spaceship into orbit with simple directional thrusters.

Check it out at celest.funfinds.us:

We’ve starting posting about those learning experiences on the celest blog:

Enjoy! Look at our ads!

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  1. Download and install Eclipse, the java version should be just fine
  2. Pick a directory for your flash projects.  For this guide, I’m using the Eclipse default, “C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan\workspace”
  3. Download the Flex 2 SDK, unzip it into a “Flex 2 SDK” folder in your project directory
  4. Download the Flex Ant tasks, and unzip the file into a directory in your project directory
  5. Install whatever version control tools you prefer
  6. Open Eclipse, get to the workspace view
  7. Make a new “General” project for the Flex 2 SDK
  8. Go to Window->Preferences, select the Ant->Runtime node in the tree
  9. Go to the “Classpath” tab, select “Ant Home Entries (default)”, and then click “Add External JARs”
  10. Select the flexTasks.jar from the flex ant folder.
  11. Click OK
  12. Go to the “Tasks” tab, select “Add Task”
  13. Name it “mxmlc”, and choose the flexTasks.jar from the dropdown
  14. In the tree view, navigate to / -> flex2 -> ant, and then select MxmlcTask.class from the right pane
  15. Click OK
  16. Go to the “Properties” tab, select “Add Property”
  17. Name it “FLEX_HOME”, and make the path to your Flex 2 SDK folder
  18. Click OK
  19. Click OK

Now you’re ready to start the hard part, actually making your flash program.

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