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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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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).

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very simple yet effective flash countdown timer using actionscript 2. This is great for use in flash games or multimedia applications.

Using scenes in flash can have vast benefits for your work, enabling the viewer to easily jump around the file (similar to frame labels) but with much more stability. You can use scenes to easily organise your flash file, for example if you were creating a flash website each page of the site can be created as a scene (Pre-loader, home, contact etc). Scenes in a flash file will always play in order, unless you tell them otherwise. So how do we create scenes? And how do we put them to use? I’ll show you!

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a VERY simple fade gallery in flash, 100% done in the timeline. This is the most simple way of creating this effect, useful for website headers, banners and general looping through images. Of course this can always be done using photoshop to make an animated gif, but we’ll save that lesson for another day.

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use motion guides. These basically create a ‘path’ that a movieclip will follow, without you having to animate all of the frames at turning points etc.