Snowed-in Tutorial: Top Down classic RPG

So, we've had a little bit of an extended break, and how have I cured my cabin fever? By trying to get a leg up on my game design skills. Since several of our teams are planning to make old school style, top down RPGs I thought I would hunt for a good tutorial.

I found this great AS2 RPG tutorial on a blog called Tagify. While this tutorial is loaded with great info, it does have its drawbacks for our purposes.

First of all, the script is not written in an "Actions" layer the way we write it, but rather it is encoded on the movie clip it refers to. Therefore you will see some unfamiliar scripts. For instance, you will see "onClipEvent" instead of "onEnterFrame". Another difference is the use of "this" or "_root.MovieClipName" in place of the instance name of a particular movie clip.

I have made the necessary adjustments (and some additions) in my version.

Here is a link to the fla. I have included descriptions of what each chunk of code does.

For those of you planning a top down RPG, this will be of great help. And of course there is more we can do and explore in class.

Good Luck - I'll see everyone soon!