Actionscript/Flash

[drenrin2120]

I was wondering if anyone could lend me some links to teach me the basics of actionscript 3.0

I'm asking because I figure there may be people with personal favorite and good reasons for those favorites. I trust your instincts.

EDIT: Even maybe if there's a specific book that's better than others or something. Any kind of source really.

[Ben]

I personally don't know much about actualy flash...but Ive been using Stencyl to compile flash games, with literally no knowledge of actionscript or flash. Its still in private beta, but if you'd like an inivte let me know. Im pretty active over there, and can get you an invite usually within 24 hours. Send me your email address if interested

[drenrin2120]

Thanks gem, but I, uhhhh, I got an invite already. =D
College has been owning my *** though, so I've had almost no time to really play around with it. Thank you though, I appreciate it! I wanted to learn some basic actionscript to do more complex scripting in stencyl, but like I said, I've had no time really. =(

[Ben]

Dude.....play with that noise. Its rad.

And a long for more charas around there.

[drenrin2120]

I plan too, I love it so far.

[Osmose1000]

Flashpunk and the associated tutorials are the best resources out there IMO for getting into Actionscript for making games.

Once you get a handle on things transferring to a different library like Flixel shouldn't be that hard.

[drenrin2120]

Thank you, moose! When school allows it, I'll be taking a look at those.

[jenna3zwang]

Does there any difference between action script and Flash?
I am interested in learning Flash, for this is it neccessary to know scripting?

[Osmose1000]

Does there any difference between action script and Flash?
I am interested in learning Flash, for this is it neccessary to know scripting?

It depends on what you're doing. If you're interested in learning how to make Flash movies or non-interactive content, you can achieve this without any actionscript at all.

Actionscript is a scripting language that allows you to control a Flash movie programmatically. If you want to make a game, or any kind of Flash movie that does more than just show a movie, you'll have to use Actionscript at some level.

What basically happens is that the Adobe Flash program can make normal Flash movies and lets you include actionscript. The alternative is to use the Flex SDK, which compiles a bunch of actionscript files into a Flash movie. Either way works, and the latter is how a lot of game developers on Flash do it.