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Here are the town's folk of my game! They represent various professions on Medieval Age, and most of them have two expressions: troubled and delighted. There is a dyer, a soup maker, a locksmith, a bard, an illustrator, a monk and a healer. 

Medieval Map of Turku, little rough on the edges

I didn't think I would go any deeper into AS3, but something small I had to add. This is neat way of refreshing the screen in the end, so that people can play my game over and over again. Thanks Freekeir of the Net for the code!

restart_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickRestart)

function onClickRestart(e:MouseEvent):void {

var reloadRequest:URLRequest = new

URLRequest("myGame.swf");

var loader:Loader = new Loader();

loader.load(reloadRequest);

addChild(loader);

I will forget this, so here's my crip sheet:

  var container:Array = new Array;

addChild(container);

for (var i:int = 0; i < 10; i++) {

    var citizen:Citizen = new Citizen;

    citizen .x = Math.random()*1000; 

    citizen .y = Math.random()*1000;

    container.addChild(citizen );

I do my best not to use classes in my game. I know it would benefit my game and improve my skills... but I'm on denial and in a hurry. Anyway, how much I wish to do with out it, I feel that's the way it have to be in the end.

At the moment I'm reading this tutorial by Michael James Williams to find out if I really need to use them and refresh my memories of classes.

First graphics

This is the tutorial I've been looking for!

In my first game view I have kind of landscape with citizens, and I want the layers of landscape to have a subtle horisontal movement when user moves a mouse. I think this adds nice feeling of exploration!

The original tutorial is by Jesse Harding and the result should look like this. The original is made with as2, fortunately someone changed it to as3!

Later edit:

I actually had to change the code a bit as I didn't get it working. I guess my problems were connected somehow to stage width and height (my stage is 550*400). And now the objects move more like I need them to:

  import flash.events.Event;

stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, mouseMoveHandler);

function mouseMoveHandler(event:Event):void {

//If you want to hide the cursor, uncomment the next line

//Mouse.hide();

//Move against

var cursorX:int = 550 - mouseX;

var cursorY:int = 400 - mouseY;

cir1.x = (cursorX * .15);

cir2.x = (cursorX * .15 + 450);

cir3.x = (cursorX * .01 + 350);

cir4.x = (cursorX * .05 + 200);

cir5.x = mouseX;

I have really cool screenfollow function made by my tutor. The function moves the map around my game character, so it looks like the character is runnign in the town. 

I was starting to wonder if I could ever make a use of it. It took some time to make other town people move with the map. 

It was simple, of course (Towner is by firs inhabitant):

    var mX:Number=map.x;

var mY:Number=map.y;

Towner.x=mX;

A year or two flew by with my baby! Now back to graduation.

And back to basics. If I once knew how to do some little thigs with Flash and as3, that has long since gone.

Next few lines detects when my game hero ramps into a citizen of Medieval Turku:

  this.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, handleCollision)

function handleCollision( e:Event ):void

{

if(citizen.hitTestObject(character))

  {

  trace ("crash")

  }

I doupt I'll ever use this, but it was so clean and simple. First make a fancy cursor, convert it to symbol and give it an instance name cursor. Then:

Mouse.hide();

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, follow);

function follow(e:MouseEvent):void{

cursor.x = mouseX;

cursor.y = mouseY;