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amy_e_o
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February 5, 2018
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Drag & Drop Dress Up Style Game

  • February 5, 2018
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Hi,

I am needing to make a drag and drop dress up style game for my uni work, however have no clue where to start. I am proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign but by the looks of the software offered by Adobe, I am needing to use Animate? Is this the best software?

Any help or advice would be appreciated!

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      Correct answer kglad

      yes, animate would be a good choice for a drag and drop game.

      google: actionscript 3 drag and drop tutorial

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      JoãoCésar17023019
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      JoãoCésar17023019Community Expert
      Community Expert
      February 8, 2018

      Besides of what klad and Colin suggested, you can consider exporting your game as an AIR for desktop application and send to the players. They shouldn't have to install anything.

      I do this a lot with my clients.

      amy_e_o
      amy_e_oAuthor
      Participant
      February 8, 2018

      Thanks Colin & kglad!

      I have managed to get the activity working and have exported as an 'swf' file however when sending the link to others they don't seem to be able to open the game.. is their another format I can export in or do you have any advice on how they can get this to work?

      Can I export as a HTML? When I try to it only loads a blank screen in my browser?

      These are probably really obvious questions, sorry and thanks again!

      Amy

      kglad
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      kgladCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 8, 2018

      you should link the html that embeds the swf.  that will work for users that have a browser that displays flash/swf.

      creating an html5 project would be viewable by more people, but would require different (javascript, not actionscript) code.

      amy_e_o
      amy_e_oAuthor
      Participant
      February 7, 2018

      Hi, I am being given the error messages on the top image when trying to export my document (to test if its working) however my code doesn't have a Column 2 on either Line 16 or Line 20, it simply jumps from 1 to 5, anyone have an idea of how to fix this issue?

      Thanks!

      Colin Holgate
      Colin Holgate
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      February 7, 2018

      In the video you are following (kglad, I'm psychic!):

      2. Flash Dress Up Game Tutorial Actionscript 3.0 CS4 CS5 CS5.5 Doll Character Model - YouTube

      you will see that the names he used are different to the ones you used. In his case both places have the same variable name, but in yours you have uppercase characters for one of the two. So, change this:

      var myWindowArray = [InsertWindows1, BolsterWindow1];

      to be:

      var myWindowArray = [insertWindows1, bolsterWindow1];

      then your variables will match each other.

      It could be worth using exactly the same variables that are used in the tutorial, at least while you're getting used to these kinds of things to look out for.

      As for the column 2 part, the first character in line 16 is a tab, and so insertWindow1 does start on column 2.

        kglad
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        kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
        Community Expert
        February 5, 2018

        yes, animate would be a good choice for a drag and drop game.

        google: actionscript 3 drag and drop tutorial

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