Flash Tip 1: Preloader Doesn’t Work? It Might Be Your Sounds

September 15th, 2007

FlashI made a goofy Gilmore Girls video game and then realized I messed something up that causes the preloader to not display right away - defeating the whole purpose of a preloader.

When dynamically loading and playing sounds in ActionScript, you may have correctly set your sound file in the library to Export for ActionScript and Export in first frame. It’s the latter item that messes things up. It seems Flash takes that first frame thing literally and will load those library items even before the ActionScript you have on frame one, layer one - which is usually your preloader code.

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Bad Video Game #1: Gilmore Girls Series Finale

September 12th, 2007

WebomaticaEver since the Series Finale of Gilmore Girls I have been thinking to myself how lame it was that Luke never got a chance to propose to Lorelai (again). So I made this video game that recaptures the frustration.

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