Normally when I create a game, the title and menu screens are the last screens that are created. For this chapter, however, I am going to create the games title sequence first. This demonstrates one of the big differences between Flash games and Animate HTML5 Canvas games. As of Animate 2017, there is only a single scene so switching between scenes is not allowed. The normal approach to creating a game is to break up the different screens of the game into separate scenes. For Animate, this can’t be done but there are several different alternatives. The approach that I will be taking in this book is to break the game up into separate movie clips that act like scenes and have a single master movie that contains the movie clips as separate frames of the main movie.
The screen starts off blank. Seven gems then grow onto the screen in what at first seems to be a random pattern. Once the gems are fully grown the letter N fades in behind the gems. This is followed by three gems appearing to create the letter I and another 7 gems to form the M. If you look at the screen shot of the final logo you will see what the final screen looks like.
To create this sequence, many layers are used. While the number of layers could be reduced (you will see a technique for that later in this chapter), I figured that for a title sequence, the extra layers wouldn't hurt.
Each gem is on its own layer. When I created this title, I first laid out all the gems into a rough NIM pattern. To make sure that people could read the title, I then used the line tool to create an outline of the letters. I filled the outlines with a solid color and turned each of the letters into a symbol.
The fading letters is a simple alpha blending tween. You start by creating a second keyframe of the letter. The first keyframe is then set to an alpha level of 0. A motion tween is then placed between the two keyframe's.
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