Hi, today a quick post about how to create a ladder for the Citrus Engine.
It is a preview version, Michael Kerr requested me for his flash game scripting class !
I’m working with Eric to add it into the original package !!
So here is the result : the ladder in action
After my game school project (Kinessia), I’m still doing some experiments with the Citrus Engine.
On its latest update, there was some new objects :
– a powerful particle system.
– new objects : missile, reward and reward box.
In this tutorial, I wil explain how to create new specific object which extends a Citrus Engine object.
At the end, we will have : a teleporter, a treadmill and a cannon that fires missile !
An ugly example.
Hey there,
While improving my skills on the Flash Platform, I started to learn Flex and on an other way JSFL (using for Flash IDE extension).
So I mix them together, and I offer to the CE community my first Flash extension.
You can find it here : https://github.com/alamboley/CitrusEnginePanels
It requires Flash CS5.
On a project, you have always recurrent tasks. Using the CE for your game, you will create a hero and using the right labels for example. Adding a platform, baddy, cloud in the flash IDE to create a level required to create Movie Clip and specify their classname, their filepath (swf, png…) and some others options.
So what can you do with this extension ? In what way it will improve your productivity ?
I made it to be really simple to use, fast and efficient. Things that you can do with it :
– generate the correct labels for your hero, baddy, missile… such as idle, walk, jump… on a label layers !
– add to your level CE objects (hero, platform, coin, cloud…) on a specific layers with the same name and color, with some options (filepath, classname if not the original one), specific options too (oneWay for platform, parallax…).
Notice that you need to create only one time your object and duplicate them on your stage to add many. If you want to create a similar object too, just duplicate it in the library.
All of the CE objects are not in this extension, I will add them later. Before that, I would like to have your opinion about the plugin : how to improve it ? more options ?
I think that somes options for instance the endX and endY should not be included in the moving platform level fla, and be controlled by code…
Any idea is welcome 🙂
Hey,
I’m happy to share with you my game school project made at the french Gobelins school, in Annecy.
It is now online : http://kinessia.aymericlamboley.fr/.
I worked with a graphic designer, Tiffany Francony, which made an amazing job !
For the exam we had high honours and the best rating !!
It is made with the Citrus Engine. The original version used a smartphone as a controller for the game, and all the HUD was displayed on this. I used a Java server to make the synchronization.
This is a simple web version, I can’t pay a Java server. The concept is more raw than the original one, there was a video at the beginning to explain the story, and our approach was on the website. But, that was all in french, so I cut off.
All the source code is available on GitHub.
A short video :
I hope you will enjoy the prototype 🙂
Update : if you want a version with a SWC for targeting iOS, please refers to this post.
Hey ! I started to make my school game project this week. I advance quickly, it should be fine for the end of june !
For this third tutorial on the Citrus Engine, I explain better how you can use the Flash IDE as Level Editor, and I show two classes that I’ve created for my game. Here is what you will have.
Continue reading Create objects and Art in the Citrus Engine
Today this is a new tutorial on the great Citrus Engine framework. Before starting my school project, I wanted to try using box2D inside the Citrus Engine, so I will show you how create a breakout game !
Click here to play the game, don’t forget to click in the swf to enable keyboard.
Continue reading Create a breakout game with the Citrus Engine
Today I will introduce the CitrusEngine framework to make Flash Game. CitrusEngine is really great to create platform games with physical engine, it uses box2D with alchemy for better performance !
What I did in less than 2 hours : the game. Don’t forget to click in to enable keyboard.