Draw All Your Own Game Art with Adobe Flash

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Flash

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Initial Setup with Flash

Lecture 3: Vector Points in Flash

Chapter 2: The All-Important Logo

Lecture 1: Basic Layout

Lecture 2: Starting the Logo

Lecture 3: Adding Color and Detail

Lecture 4: Adding a Backing for the Text

Lecture 5: Lighting the Logo

Chapter 3: Ye ol' Quest Map

Lecture 1: The Map Base and Lakes

Lecture 2: Streams, Docks and Text

Lecture 3: Adding Mountains and Roads

Lecture 4: Adding Forests and Cliffs

Lecture 5: Adding Villages

Chapter 4: User Interface and Buttons

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Establishing a Theme with a Play Button

Lecture 3: Play Button Sci-Fi Style

Lecture 4: Interface Elements – Health / Progress Bar

Lecture 5: Compass / Radar

Lecture 6: Currently-Selected Icons

Lecture 7: Smoother, Realistic Buttons

Lecture 8: Overview of a Finished GUI

Chapter 5: Characters

Lecture 1: Front View Character (possibly for a Choose a Character screen)

Lecture 2: Front View Character (continued)

Lecture 3: In-Game Character Front View

Lecture 4: In-Game Character Back View

Lecture 5: In-Game Character Side View

Chapter 6: Character Animations

Lecture 1: Front View Walk Cycle

Lecture 2: Side View Walk Cycle

Lecture 3: Exporting a PNG sequence or SpriteSheet from Flash

Lecture 4: Attack Animation

Lecture 5: Attack Animation FX

Chapter 7: Top Down Levels

Lecture 1: The Outlands Terrain

Lecture 2: The Outlands Continued

Lecture 3: The Ocean

Lecture 4: The Ocean Continued

Lecture 5: The Bad Part of Town (or Anywhere)

Lecture 6: The Bad Part of Town (or Anywhere) Continued

Chapter 8: Buildings

Lecture 1: Perspective Points

Lecture 2: The Castle

Lecture 3: Huts

Lecture 4: Sketching with Vectors / Attaching Odd Shapes

Lecture 5: The Tiki House

Chapter 9: Animated FX

Lecture 1: Star Burst

Lecture 2: Ring Blast

Lecture 3: Smoke Loop