Drag & Drop Dress Up Style Game

[amy_e_o]

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!

[kglad · Accepted solution]

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

google: actionscript 3 drag and drop tutorial

[amy_e_o]

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!

[kglad]

what's the error message?

and you should use addChild/removeChild or the visible property to add/remove or make visible/not visible, not move from the stage to the back stage.

[Colin Holgate]

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.

[amy_e_o]

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]

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.

[Colin Holgate]

HTML5 Canvas is likely to be missing some abilities that the tutorial uses, and learning how to convert AS3 to CreateJS JavaScript is something you can learn another day!

For the moment, if kglad's suggestion about linking to the HTML that you published at the same time as publishing the SWF doesn't work out, the SWF itself should play if you drag it to a browser window. People may have Flash Player turned off, there are articles like this one that say how to turn it on:

www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-adobe-flash-player

[JoãoCésar]

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.