Yoshi’s Island Flash Demo
February 29th, 2008
When it comes to 2D platformers, there is no better than Yoshi’s Island. It’s innovative, loaded with levels, and just plain fun to play. When I was younger, I went so far as to get 100’s on every level, including the bonus levels.
I was experimenting with tile engines in Flash and I figured it would be very hard, but possible to pull off Yoshi’s Island in Flash. These days, that’s almost easy, but this demo was on the far edge of what Flash 6 was capable of on my old computer. It was reasonable in brief horizontal levels, but slowed way down when in levels involving both axes. I decided to drop it, but I have a special place in my heart for this project, since this is probably the best chunk of code I ever wrote for Flash 6. Ah well. I still gained a lot of experience from it.
Here’s the demo Use the arrow keys to move and Z to jump. Press Z again in mid-air to get Yoshi to float.
You’ll need to view this post in a browser with Javascript and Flash 6 in order to see it.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
yoshi rules!
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:37 am
Hey, thats a nice engine. I would like to have a look at the source code if you are willing to share it.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Yo this is awesome!!! Try king longer levels, or enemies or something. This is the best flash ive evr seen
March 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
great work
May 14th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
From where can we have the source please?
June 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Yoshi’s Island прикольная игрушка, помню как только она вышла, сразу купил её себе так ради интереса, несмотря на 2Д графику, игрушка очень интересная, особенно динозавр Yoshi’s, а когда он вытворяет всякие фишки, это вообще прикол. Я играл, а сейчас играет мой сын, и он тоже в восторге
June 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
yeah, im trying to learn actionscript and mxml, i would love it if you would show me this source code!
October 27th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Хорошая статья, как и все предыдущие были. Буду теперь и далее следить .