Author: Emanuele Feronato
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Understanding roguelike dungeons
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Many early roguelikes featured ASCII graphics. Games are typically…
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Case history: creating a successful niche Flash arcade site
This is the interesting story of Michael Edlavitch from Hooda Math, a 10,000 visitors/day successful niche Flash arcade site. If you are an arcade site owner, you can’t…
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Alexa rank under 40K!!!
About a year after being one of the top 50,000 sites in the world, the blog now is one of the 40,000 most visited sites in the web.…
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Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 3
In this 3rd part we’ll discover two interesting features: 1) How to add a bitmap texture to a plane 2) How to set the camera to make Papervision3D…
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HiRoads developer Diary
If you remember 5 Commodore 64 games I would like to see ported in Flash, you know I am a great fan of Trailblazer, the game that inspired…
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3 years of blogging
Ladies, gentlemen and geeks, today the blog is three years old!!!!! The blog had 77 posts in the first year, 187 in the second one and 237 this…
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Interesting jQuery effect
You know I am trying to use Gallery theme for triqui.com Yesterday I played a bit with the theme and I completely screwed everything… something like “how to…
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Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 2
Here I am to continue the tutorial about Papervision3D and planes. I suggest to take a look at the first part if you are a new reader. This…
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Understanding AS3 and XML
When you are about to design a Flash application using dynamic content, such as an image gallery or a tile based game, XML is one of the best…
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Understanding how Box2D manages boundaries
Sometimes you may need to determine if your Box2D object has fallen off the screen. This mostly happens in games, where you are going to build something and…
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WordPress MochiAds plugin beta FIXED – UPGRADE
Loyal readers know I am developing a WordPress theme and plugin to run an arcade site using MochiAds games. Released some months ago, it has been fixed when…
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JiglibFlash 3D Physics engine for AS3
I want to introduce you to a 3D Physics engine for AS3. Unlike engines like Box2D and the other ones listed in Flash physics engines galore, this engine…
