Hi! This tutorial is great. I have been looking for this and was getting frustrated. Then I saw this. Thankyou!

(Check out kmy deviantart page, I made a game called RatAttack using this tutorial and made a link to this website!)

Wow, thanks this is just what I wanted. Now to go test it out!

hi, yet another great tutorial! Very useful indeed for all these RPGs every1 wants to make.
Ty!

these tutorial are getting better every day! :D:D

thanks for posting this tutorial, ive almost complete my RPG but have one question that i need to know before i can complete it.
I am looking for the code that you would put on an MC, and if a man hits it, and he has a certain number in a variable, say reputation 6 then it would take you to a different frame.
thankz.

oops, sorry to double post but i remember another question i had. Could you maybe explain, or create a tutorial on how to make it so that when you click a button, like if you have a certain ammount of money you can buy clothes, and they would be added to your mc? I tried doing what i thought would work with alpha but im not sure how many MCs i should have and where to put them. Aby help? thanks awesty

@rrr444: the code would be something like:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(_root.man.hitTest(this)){
if(_root.reputation == 6){
_root.gotoAndStop(2);
}else{
_root.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
}

@rrr444 & eb264: But if it is just a variable, you might not need the _root in front of the reputation.

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(_root.man.hitTest(this)){
if(reputation == 6){
_root.gotoAndStop(2);
}else{
_root.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
}

my birthday is January 8th, 2007

heh..my birthday is Janurary 7th
Well I have a question..ive started on an RPG not to long ago..and have tryed to do just this!
finaly I have something to read and learn from.

Ok I have tryed it out and it works like a charm!! thank you for that, but I have a little problem tho.. when the text msg comes up and I walk away..the text msg stays up?? it does not dissappear?? once I pick the sword up and return to the guy..the text msg changes and then also stays there..even if I walk away?

How do I sort this weirdness out??

your tutorials are helping me greatly..its people like you that inspires me to make games.

Make sure you have this:

}else{

_root.msg.gotoAndStop(1);

}

That should work if it is there. Btw happy brithday you two

*sings* haaaapppyy birthday to youtwo haaaaapppyy - Screw this I got to go to school.

Btw awesty, I have an awesome game comming out soon that will knock the socks off you! It’s like a destruction derby. But that’s all I’ll say

hello once again, thanks for the happy birthday
ok..This is the code iam using:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.man.hitTest(this)) {
if (_root.smallItem._alpha>0) {
_root.msg.gotoAndStop(3);
} else {
_root.msg.gotoAndStop(2);
}
} else {
_root.msg.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
Its what you told meh to do..but it dont work for me..iam wondering if ive done something wrong there..ive checked it myself and looks fine so I dont know why it fails to work right.
Its anoying me
Also..another thing I cant master either..is if I pick the sword up..it ends up in an inventory slot..now in your last tutorial a guy came along and gave the code to work it out..but I dont get it and cant get it working Do you know how to work this?? if so..could ya give meh a hint or 2

Bob, I made a crappy destruction derby, 4 cars driving around and you have to bash them

ya another good tut. thanks.

@Irish_PXzyan:

Just send the .fla to

awestyproductions[@]gmail[.]com

And i will check it out.

OK awesty, its another cool tutorial, but i wonder, will there be a part three?

cuz if there is, ill be looking at it

There might be if there is something I can add. Any suggestions?

I know this sounds simple but weilding the sword if clicked, and cutting something with it to move on to next lvl.

Yea, i might do a tutorial like that.

Ok thanks, I sent you an email of the file..In the file I had to add a button so that when you click the button then the message dissappears..but I dont like it that way This looks very like the tutorials you did..same graphics and stuff! so you will know your way around

I have a problem. When i walk into the guy the message says well done you have the sword, when i don’t. And when i go over and pick up the sword, it doesn’t appear in the inventory, but it disapears and the man says well done. It might be because i have flash MX educational, im not sure. Can anybody help me? Thanks.

@Irish_PXzyan: Okay, I will have a look at it.

@RDB2006: Is it Flash MX or Flash MX 2004?

It’s flash mx 2004

hey next tut do movie clips in movie clips
iam haveing truble with puting the ht invisble platform and words inside the random guys movie clip

help

Gay!

hey awesty
another great tutorial
im only 12 but i am gettin the hang of it
i took ur two tutorials and tried to add
my touch
i added a bow
a more storylinish play
ability to equip wepons
and best of all
the feature to move around the map
i made it so u could roam around
anyways
if u want my version
i could email it to u
and feel free to use my scipting and such
in other tutorials
thanks for this tutorial

Hi awesty thnx 4 tut. but i want t ask how we can make a feature like when the guy meets a creatue a dueling screen should open up

@RDB2004: Just email the .fla to awestyproductions[@]gmail[.]com

@Hugama: Yea sure. Feel free to email it to me.

@tuty: Have the battle screen on a different frame, and then have:

if(this.hitTest(something)){
gotoAndPlay(FRAME);
}

This was a good tutorial. I am learning flash from 2 yrs but still a beginner(I’am only a kid of 13 yrs.).Can you tell me how to make a pet game, in which we should feed him,play with him etc.

hey, hi again awesty,(im just asking not requesting) but will there be an “making-an-rpg-type-game-3″?

nice tutorial but ive got big problem ive followed your tutorial and it works fine but
i have it so when you go up to the guy you and
you have the item he gives u another item but when i made another person to trade it with( the new item) it just does nothing

@abhilash: No, I can’t just tell you. You will have to try and figure that out yourself.

@KIM: Possibly.

@andrew: Just send the .fla to

awestyproductions[@]gmail[.]com

I’m 14 and i’ve been doing flash for
about 2 years now.

I stumbled across your tute and think it’s
really cool.

I’m going to school the day after tommorow
and thought i’d post…=)

I would like to see a more advanced look to this
eg:
More boundries
Money
Enemies
Quests
Spells …etc
And i may help on some of these.

If you post back which i doubt than i will
try to get back to you asap.

For those newbies =)… good luck for the future
of your programing.

Anyway it’s getting late and im gonna go to
sleep…so goodnight for me =(

Signing Off
Master MX’er

PS: Lol for my name
=)

This is just copy/paste with no explinations! It’s also really short. You could just make a full tutorial instead of making people wait and come back later…

hi awesty, ehm, i have a problem.. when im done and test it, the text doesnt appear.. i cant walk through him, but the text doesnt appear.. also i dont understand what “the invisible box” is.. which one?

thank you for a great turotial, im learning much

Is it possible to make a battle system? like dragon fable and adventure quest (yes i know they are way past most of our league) but a simpler one. if so how. i’m new at this so bear with me, im used to coding text based games but the code in flaash looks similar. So how do you do it?

@Master MX’er: Uh… If you have been doing flash for 2 years you should be able to figure some of that out for yourself. I have had flash for a year, but haven’t been using AS the whole time.

@Flash Sandbox: The reason this is part two is because people requested it, I wasn’t planning on doing this tutorial. Also, there ARE explanations, but on the last one there isn’t since I have already explained it in a different tutorial so I just linked there.

@Seerex: You need the invisible box so the text will appear. Have a look at the third picture and you will see a box on the guy you talk to. Give that 0 alpha. Then put the first block of code on it.

thanks alot, all works now, well i hope u are gonna give another tutorial with the RPG thing..

also, isnt there another way of making the “inventory system” so u dont need to just take the alpha down and stuff, and is there a way to make “inventory full” and stuff? also, last question, how do i make it jump to the “game over” frame when the HP bar reachs “0″

I dont know what you mean by Inventory full, but there are otherways to make an inventory system.
To go to the game over frame, try:
if(_root.hp <= 0){
_root.gotoAndStop(GAMEOVERFRAME);
}

Just put the frame number between the brackets where it says GAMEOVERFRAME.

nice tutorial but please put as soon as you can a tute with attack. You know, how to attack a thug for example and win rewards, a scrolling map, buy armor, weapons. Please don’t think I’m a critic but your tutes are awesome! thanks

Uh… you should be able to figure all off that out from my other tutorials. You will just have to edit the code a bit.

the inventory thing does not work for me, i have Flash Mx 2004, can u send me a different way to do it

@Rober F. I do not use MX 2004, but I believe it should be the same code, once both of them (MX 2004 and use Action Script 2.0. There might be something diferent on your code.

Awesty, I think you could make some tutorials on advanced AI programming, I know you use AS2(and I don’t) but there are no big diferences. In fact, almost all your tutorials can work for people that use AS1.What I’m asking for is just a usual tutorial, not getting into the game itself, as we already know you won’t, but actually giving us a generic code so we can work it out and find what we need by ourselves.

Thanks in advance.

The only problem is that the caracter can walk out of the frame

ya thats right

@Robert F.: If you follow the tutorial it will work. You need to take part 1 for the inventory system.

@Grifo: Sure. I am going to do one on trig soon, so I could do an AI one involving trig.

DUDES… PLZ HELP!! i would be vey happy if someone of u guys could send me ur .fla rpg-game.. cause mine doesnt work….

Just figure it out for yourself. It seriously isnt that hard.

What about this:
The W key should get the bow ready, and if it already is, it will “disarm” it(it’s late at night here and I can think in english properly).
I fire arrows with the A key,(of course, only when the bow is on hands).
I need the character to have a different animation when he is with the bow on hand and when he isn’t.However, I want two other animations:when getting the bow and when disarming it, both activated when pressing W(like on/off).
Can you please show me an example on that?

I’m looking forward to your reply, and sorry if it doesn’t make any sense.

It makes sense, but I dont really feel like coding it atm. :\

It could easily be done with a bunch of if/else statements.

Okay thanks. I’ll see what I can do. See ya.

when is the next tutorial gonna be out

Well since school is back, maybe not for a few days.

Hi awesty! I looked at your tutorials and they are awesome! All kinds o’ game tutorials that a website needs. I wanna say that I’ve got a problem ; I looked in the whole Internet but nothing ; maybe u could help me :-). I wanna add to my game a character design stage, and when u press SAVE you could play with that character you’ve created. Could u figure out how to do? Thanks

There would be easier ways to do this, put this is the fastest thing I can think of.
Make all the clothes and everything a MC (which they should be) and on each frame put the different style. The when it comes to choosing, make flash remember which one they chose by putting it into a variable (easiest would be an array) and the on each new frame tell flash to do something like:

_root.man.shirt.gotoAndStop(array[0]);
_root.man.hair.gotoAndStop(array[1]);
_root.man.shoes.gotoAndStop(array[2]);

OK, but all of the clothing should be MCs and give them the Instance name of for example “hair1″, “eyes1″ etc.?

how to prevent the character from walking away from the monitor?

http://www.awestyproductions.com/tutorials/

Awesty, could you please make for me a character design in flash? If you do, I could figure out how to do it. Please send it to me at uzi_032000@Yahoo.com.

Im not going to design a character for you in flash. >_>

OK. Sorry for being so selfish.

but will u please ask my previous question? so I can understand it; I know you’re a lil’ mad at me but….you’re flash experience is high and u know a lot

oops, sorry i didnt see it up there

Um… *tries to remember what he was on about*.

I think you have each shirt an MC, but they dont have to be, and put each one on a different frame in an MC with an instance name shirt for example. That would have all the shirts in it.

ok thanks, will the next tutorial show how to make such a thing? I hope so….

iv been doing flash for 2 days and i got this WOOOO great tutorial

I’ve gone through all your tut so far, step by step. Great! Simple and easy, and very usefull
thanks for the good work!

Abhilash and Master MX’er, I can beat your age. I’m 12 and have been studying for Flash for almost a half year. >_>

know what Jay? I’m 15 and i work in Flash since I was 10!!

So that means you got no live Uzi? No friends to play with, only you and your flash….

@Uzi: Are you serious?

@wesley: Just because he has been using flash for 5 years doesnt mean he has no life. He might only use it once every few days.

yeah he’s right. And yes it’s true; I do work on flash for 5 years but i’m not very good at actionscripting.

could you plz give me the actionscript
so that i can move with arrow keys instered of the w a s d plz thank you plz email me at sirmadboy@gmail.com

@Charlie: http://www.awestyproductions.com/tutorials/

First tutorial listed I think.

Awesome tutorial, Awesty. It was very easy to do and extremely helpful for the animation project I’m working on.

My one question is,say instead of just collecting a sword, you want the playable character to collect four objects and THEN go to the other character in order to complete the job? I can use your first RPG tutorial easily to make it so the four different items go into the inventory correctly, but I’m not sure how to make them all part of the quest.

CAN YOU MAKE A TUTORIAL
WHEN YOU STEP ON A ALPHA 0 SYMBOLS OR SOMETHING YOU WILL TRANSFER TO THE NEXT FRAME
LIKE WHAT HAPPEN ON THE RPG’S

wow…. i’ve posted 2 comments for RAY and yet I don’t think that they are showing up xD…. oh well =/

Ok that one did apparently, so i’ll type it out a third time lol… Each letter has a number to represent it. For example:

W - 87
S - 83
A - 65
D - 68
and so on…

If you want to tell the user that if he presses “w” then the man will attack, the code on the man would be:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(Key.isDown(87)) {
_root.gotoAndStop(”A”);
}
}

“A” - the frame of which your little skit or scene of the man attacking.

Hope this helps =)

Pattern? You mean the pattern of the number on the key letter? If so, you can search it up on this site. It gives you all the numbers for them. As for your second question, you can search up awesty’s tutorial.
Its here: http://www.awestyproductions.c.....ackground/

If you have, then just make sure the hp and inventory are NOT part of the background.

Hope this helps =)

Good tutorial awesy just one question. When I try to put the talking man thing in another movie clip you can walk over him. How can I fix this?
thanks

I get it now there’s a clue to get it ALT+65 to Alt+90 is A-Z, yeah tnx.

I was kinda hoping for a real rpg tutarial, you know like swing a weapon that does dmg and getting better weapons, with the tutorial u made I can exactly get anywhere.

got 2 problems…
1) i get the sword and then go to an enemy. Then i fight with him with your turn-based combat. When i win, i go back to the main screen and the sword is still on the ground… any way i can resolve this? thnx

second prob…
2) if i pick-up a weapon, how can i equip it? and remain with it since i change it

if you find a way to do these,please send the whole code… as i told you a wile ago, i’m not so good at action-scripting

Uh, for ur first question, you can have this in your first frame:

if (_root.smallItem._alpha = 100) {
_root.sword._alpha = 0;
}

That’s if your “smallItem” instance name is on the one in your inventory and the “sword” instance name is on the one on the ground.

Hola faretaste
mekodinosad

when will part 3 will come out?

awesty, i got a big problem! it’s with my char design and actionscript! will you look at it? i will send the fla. file to you.

sorry for posting a lot of comments lately (btw i’ve resolved the char design thingy :P) how can i make that when i equip a weapon, the damage changes. For example the normal sword has 5-10 damage, and the other weapon has 6-12. How can i do this? thanx

Hm, many ways to do that. You can either go the declaring variables galore way, or the actionscript way I’ll tell u the variable way cuz I dunno what ur instance names are. Might not work btw Kk on frame, have like:

equipsword = false;
equipsword2 = false;

Then have the actionscript on ur sword:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
on (release) {
if (equipsword = false) {
this._x = _root.inventoryslot1._x;
this._y = _root.inventoryslot1._y;
minattackpower = minattackpower + 5;
maxattackpower = maxattackpower + 10;
}
}
}

Then, do the same thing for the 2nd sword but differen’t stuff.

P.S. You need 2 dynamic textboxes with variable name of ‘minattackpower’ and ‘maxattackpower’ (the minimal and maximum damage of ur character.
}

AWESTY AND SAROVATI RULE!!

another thing and i’ll leave you alone :D. I made a level increase thingy. I put this code on the frame :

if (_root.lvl == 1)
{
_root.xp = 64;
_root.hp = 100;
_root.mana = 80;
}
else
{
if (_root.xp == 65)
{
_root.lvl = 2;
}
if (_root.lvl == 2)
{
_root.hp = 120;
_root.mana = 100;
_root.gold += 50;
_root.xp = 0;
}
}

but it doesn’t work if i have 65 xp go to lvl 2 and increase those three (hp, mana and gold). What did it go wrong?

damn i forgot that :

if (_root.lvl == 1)
{
_root.xp = 0;

change that to zero. Sorry for double-posting

removed the ‘else’ and still doesn’t work

Hm, well first off, u might wanna have it as:

if (xp >= 65) {

cuz they would probably go over the exp limit sometime
Also, I would make maxHP and maxMana and maxXP dynamic text boxes too…. cuz if u don’t, every time a frame is entered or something, their health and mana and exp all go to 100, 80, and 0.

+ I would probably put this on a frame earlier then the rest, e.g. If your first frame of ur acctually game is on fram 3, put this on a blank keyframe on frame 2.:

_root.xp = 0;
_root.maxXP = 65;
_root.hp = 100;
_root.maxHP = 100;
_root.mana = 80;
_root.maxMana = 80;

Then put this on ur guy:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if (_root.lvl == 2)
_root.maxHP = 120;
_root.maxMana = 100;
_root.gold += 50;
_root.xp = 0;
_root.maxXP = new number;
}

Might be some glitches, but if u have max hp and max mp variables on text boxes, itll make it ALOT easier.

OH Awesty, got a HUGE problem for tomorrow….. I got a new option called Discovery 8….. It’s about technology and stuff… Anyways, the teacher wants me to show em how to use Flash AS 2.0…. Is there aything that is easy to make and makes sense to an average gr. 8 guy? I mean I could teach em RPG or something… but the girls would be like ewwwwwww!! o.O So yeah… anything simple and coding not EXTREMELY hard and is not like fight fight fight only? Thanks

Lol, at least it all went well today But now they asking me heaps of questions…. oh well lol.

Ok , thx …

But how to USE the sword?

hey man, do u have any clue how to make it so i can go in a another screen or go into a building?

Hey Awesty. These tutorials are great. I m new to flash and these have really helped and I was just wondering how to make it so the camera zooms in and stays on the main character cause mine are quite small and it would make things alot easier

Um you can’t really make the camera ‘zoom’ on the main character, unless you want to learn Advanced Actionscript. And by Advanced, I mean ADVANCED. You’ll need to know how to render bitmap images, advanced trigonometry, geometry stuff, etc. I would just make everything bigger instead of trying to zoom in. As your the camera staying on the main character, have the map move instead of the character. It will seem like the character is moving, but the map acctually is, and the main character will stay in the same spot.

Thanks SaroVati I figured out an easier way by making the size smaller and have the you move the background instead of the guy but in doing that I got a new problem involving the walls. The character stops but you can still move the background so if you have any idea how to stop it doing that, that would be cool

Yeah that’s also pretty easy. Normally you would have something like this on your character:

if (this.hitTest(_root.wall)) {

now you need to put it on the wall. So it would be:

if (this.hitTest(_root.man)) {
moveSpeed = 0;
}

or something. If you are using pixels instead of a ’speed’ variable (which I don’t recommend as it takes longer to change everything) then you can do something like this on your movement script, assuming its on your man. Change it a bit if its on the background instead:

if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) && this.hitTest(_root.wall == false)) {
_root.background._x = 10;
}

Ugh mistake there :p on the last piece of code, add a ‘+’ before the = sign or it will screw up hard

dude if you thought you could make a rpg for an hour then you are wrong

aa

Hi i love your tuts but these 2 RPG games i cant do i use macromedia flash mx 2004 and i dont no what or where the alpha is! at the moment you have to drag the weapon in the inventory and i dont no wat im gonna do this time about the alpha! if anyone cud help me please email me at
lukester-h@hotmail.co.uk

thnx!

uhmm…I have just one question, well since I’m a first timer at this actionscript thing, how can you put the item so that if you click it the item will enter the item slot, I’m trying to work it out with the “itemSlot” tut but I’m kinda’ stuck…

help???

pls…

hey awesty i made a game like this but similar and i need some help. i need to make it where in the guys text theres a button where you can move on to the next scene, i tried it but it wont work. im a newbie so i need help.
thanks,
died70

P.S. its still helpfull even a year later

uhhhhh hello is anybody there i waited a whole day for at least a response