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Insult Dueler: Building a Flash game on Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR is a thrilling new frontier for anyone who is accustomed to building browser-based games and applications. To show off some of the cool features of Adobe AIR, I’ve built a fun little game inspired by a mini-game in the LucasArts series Monkey Island. I wrote the game in ActionScript 3 and created all of the animations on the Timeline in Flash CS3 Professional. I’ll share with you some of the thinking that went into the design of the game, how I used Adobe AIR features such as the local database, custom chrome, file management, and cross-platform window control. Finally, I’ll show you how to package and deploy the finished game to the desktop using the new Adobe AIR extension for Flash CS3 Professional.

You can read the article, download the game and get the source all at the brand new Adobe Developer Center.

And let me know what you think, too.

October 1st, 2007  by Stephen  /  4 Comments

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  3. Is it just me or should Lucas Arts start making Advernture games again. Full Throttle was so sick. So was Day of the Tentacle. Gosh… Brings a tear to my eye thinking of all these oldies but goodies.

    Mikko Haapoja on October 1st, 2007 at 10:13 am
  4. Wow! This is great Jamie. I’ve been wanting to create a game as my first AIR project. There’s probably no better or more fun way to learn more about OOP & AIR than creating a game via flash. Thanks!

    hebchop on October 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm