You're reading from Adobe Animate 2022 for Creative Professionals Implement professional techniques and create vivid animated and interactive content with Animate

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232799

Length 464 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Getting up to Speed

2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations

4. Chapter 3: Settling into the User Interface

5. Chapter 4: Publishing and Exporting Creative Content

6. Section 2 – Animating with Diverse Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Manipulating Media Content

8. Chapter 6: Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web

9. Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting

10. Chapter 8: Animating Poses with IK Armatures

11. Chapter 9: Manipulating Warped Objects through Advanced Rigging

12. Chapter 10: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth

13. Section 3 – Exploring Additional Platforms

14. Chapter 11: Developing Web-Based Games

15. Chapter 12: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL

16. Chapter 13: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

17. Chapter 14: Extending Adobe Animate

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Understanding the Game Concept

The game we will build in this chapter makes use of one of the strongest aspects of Adobe Animate, and that is the ability to create assets with visual tools and then program them with code directly within the same application. The game concept is very simple: you control a kitty that can walk back and forth across the screen and shoot energy balls upward. Enemy pigs are dropping from above and the kitty must ensure that none reach the ground by blasting them out of the sky. If three pigs get past the kitty, it's game over.

We'll be dealing with a lot of code in this chapter. If you've never written much code, don't worry! We will be stepping through the visual aspects of the game first and will slowly build up to the programming aspects. Even when in the thick of development, all the code will be provided and explained piece by piece.