Here you can read some tutorials about making tile based games with Adobe Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3.
This is updated version of tile based games tutorials, originally started in 2003 and written for Flash 5. In case you do not have Flash CS3 yet or you wish to make games with Actionscript 1, please look here. Please notice that the old version is not updated anymore and some code may fail in newer Flash versions.
These tutorials expect you to know something about actionscript and Macromedia Flash, they are not to written to teach basics of Flash and actionscript. Parts of them might be too hard to understand, if you never before made any games with Flash. And as my English is not very good, there are probably lots of mistakes and some parts might not be well explained. I am sorry, I do my best. If you find bugs or mistakes, let me know. Of course you do not have to use Flash at all, basic principles of tile based games remain same for every programming language.
I have used Flash CS3 to create the code and source files. They do not work under Flash8, Flash MX2004 or FlashMX. They also do not work for Actionscript 2 or 1. Most code is given as external class file so you can use it with Flex too, however my knowledge of Flex is too limited to present working examples for Flex. Most flas contain only few lines to include the class and create new instance of the main class.
To see the examples correctly please make sure you have installed Flash Player 9. You can download it here .
Examples and code and source files presented here are free to use under CC license.
I hope someone finds something useful here :)
Thanks
Tony: 2003 - 2008