Actionscript 3 Strategy Games Tutorial - Part 1

The intended audience for this course is the programmer with some experience in writing ActionScript 3 and familiar with development using Adobe Flash Professional CS5, Adobe Flash Builder 4, or FlashDevelop. You can find details on the full course here at Strategy Games Complete Series

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Topics in Part One:

- Development Options – Flash Professional, Flash Builder, and/or FlashDevelop.
- Setting up for your environment
- Creating the main package and Terrain class
- Graphics Class – learn to use the Graphics class to draw and color shapes
- Creating noise
- Using bit shifting to extract RGB values
- Spatial Averaging – softening the noise to create the land forms
- Gridlines – drawing gridlines with a Graphics class object
- Creating the Grid and Node classes
- Game Class – Tying the Terrain, Grid, and Node classes together with the Game class
- BitmapData class – dynamically create bitmaps in AS3
- Terrain – adding Mountains and beaches
- Connected Component Labeling (CCL)
- Creating an interactive test for our CCL algorithm (and debugging)
- Creating the Region class and integrating it with out CCL test
- Bringing in Symbols