Comments on: Using haXe for Platform Games

By: Mario Flash Game

Mario Flash Game — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:27:24 +0000

anybody here know of a good site to find more info on mario flash game? I\’ve got this site bookmarked and im gonna keep checking it out, but i still would like to find a site that covers mario flash game a little more thoroughly..thanks

By: Gregory

Gregory — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:09:46 +0000

I have been looking for months it seems on how to do a bitmap scroller like what you have provided… everything else is creating a huge bitmap (over 1000 pixels wide at least), yet you are able to accomplish it using only ~400 pixels!

By chance would you please write a tutorial on how you did this? Also, if possible, can you write it without using haXe? I already am trying to struggle to understand the basics of AS3, and trying to develop what you just did with two different languages won’t be an easy task :/

Again, I, and so would thousands of others, would really love it if you could write a tut on how you did this, thanks in advance

By: sylvainulg

sylvainulg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:08:11 +0000

hehe. Funny how you apply console programming hacks (wrapping surface with their offscreen part replaced with new tiles) on a flash player that has actually no hardware to hack ^_^

By: jimmyjames

jimmyjames — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:15:17 +0000

Love your site. I’m pretty new to haxe and I haven’t had much luck finding a platform game source.Your other scrolling example was nice but being new I don’t think I can get a platform game going off just that. I don’t want to be pushy but could you release the source to this Mario game aswell. I think I’d as well as others couldlearn a great deal from it.

Thank you for your time.

By: _rje_

_rje_ — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:45:00 +0000

First, thanks for Tile Studio, great piece of software, the code exporter is very good.

I’m currently working on a game engine around TileStudio exports in pure Actionscript 3. Performance is the main concern. It currently scrolls a 3000×3000 single static layer

By: zdravko

zdravko — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:56:56 +0000

OK, sorry, you export PNG’s as RGBA , my viewer (XnView) displayed the pink fully opaque, although it has alpha 0.
But then, i have another question, in Tile Studio, whenever i import png’s created by it, with some transparent color, the transparent color is taken as white, which is a problem since when i set it to white, it makes also opaque white as a transparent color, and since white is a common color i get unwanted bitmap regions as transparent. Is there a workaround, or is it a bug?

By: zdravko

zdravko — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:43:15 +0000

OK, I looked at the haxe example of a flash scroller for a good half an hour now, and i really don’t get it , where do you specify that the pink is the transparent color in order to eliminate it in the resulting swf ?

By: josh keele

josh keele — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:45:07 +0000

WOW! Awesome! I’d be really interesting in knowing how you can use BitmapData in haXe.

By: joshk

joshk — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:47:13 +0000

I’ve never programmed in Flash before (other than OpenLaszlo), and I just found haXe a few days ago. It’s hard to find examples but I found a Aereo Fighter clone with source at http://www.cairnsgames.co.za/files/flashshooter.htm and have started using it to make a simple platformer. The first technique you mentioned of just swapping MovieClips is what I’m using for the player animation like switching directions. I’m curious about the other methods. A small snippet demonstarting how to GET BitmapData and how to bitblip it would be much appreciated, because I have no experience in ActionScript and no idea how to get BitmapData or where to get it from or how to bitblip it to a MovieClip. I’m just using a swiffmill resource swf and attaching those bitmaps to MoiveClips then swaping ‘em.

By: Michael Baumgarten

Michael Baumgarten — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:32:28 +0000

Big fan! I remember way back when you created the Mario clone for DOS.

I just wanted to send you a link to another scrolling engine that you might be interested in:

http://www.strille.net/works/misc/platform_demo/

It should be somewhat easy to transfer to Actionscript 2. I haven’t used Haxe yet, so I don’t know if they are using Actionscript 2 or 3. The only open source actionscript compiler I’ve used so far is MTASC.

Don’t stop posting. I’m enjoying your site.