Actionscript 3 full Asteroids tutorial using flashdevelop

... use blitting in flash instead of flash's 'display list', ...

Thanks for posting the tutorial. I'm pretty new to AS3 and was wondering why you didn't have the asteroid objects (etc.) descend from Sprite and actually addChild() them to the stage. Is there an advantage to doing it the way you did it -- Speed? etc. -- or did you do it that way just so that the AS3 code is structured similarly to the way it would be if you wrote Asteroids in C++?

Thanks for posting the tutorial. I'm pretty new to AS3 and was wondering why you didn't have the asteroid objects (etc.) descend from Sprite and actually addChild() them to the stage. Is there an advantage to doing it the way you did it -- Speed? etc. -- or did you do it that way just so that the AS3 code is structured similarly to the way it would be if you wrote Asteroids in C++?

Hey, thanks for checking out the tutorial!

Yeah, I wrote the tutorial using blitting instead of using the display list to lead up to more involved games, and also to show how to use that method. I normally use it more because I like being able to quickly control the order of my display objects, and it is supposed to be a lot faster (but probably more so when you get hundreds of bitmaps vs. hundreds of display objects).

But for this game using flash, it would be faster to just use flash's display list, and no real advantage to using blitting - it actually takes a lot more time to get it working.

I started another tutorial as well on creating the asteroids game using the display list, if you want to check it out:

http://chrismweb.com/2011/02/09/creating-an-asteroids-game-using-the-display-list-part-1-creating-the-game-ship-and-keyboard-controls/

I should finish that one too- so people can chose what technique they want to use (since one is faster than the other to get working for some situations - like when you don't have a ton of objects, or need add/remove+ depth sort a lot of objects), but the first part is finished and can be used to go off the next ones.

Thanks for checking it out, let me know if you want me to write a tutorial about something, and I'll work on putting up a series using the display list instead of blitting, so both options can be seen.