This is a small tutorial written in flash to create an aeroplane shooting game. The tutorial tries to be minimalistic to implment the basic features for such a game and to do it using as low code as possible.
It is structured in 5 parts:
- Player Movement
- Shooting Bullets
- Adding Enemies
- Collisions
- Scoring and HUD.
This tutorial can be used as a starting point for any type of vertical shooter game. Initially, I was planning to create a more realistic 2d aeroplane game and I didn't abandon the idea. After finishing this one, I plan to create a side scroller which involves some plane mechanics to simulate the taking off, flying/driving and landing of an aeroplane similar to the games from here.