Ok, so you created your awesome game, embedded MochiAds leaderboards and want to publish high scores in your homepage, in another Flash movie, or wherever you want, just outside the game. Just think about Kongregate, that shows top scores on the right of the game you are playing. That’s what we are going to do. … Showing MochiAds leaderboards in any Flash movie or web page
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In this 3rd part we are going to create a complete game with exit and two levels. Read parts 1 and 2 if you haven’t done it already. I’ll also fix a bug reported by Questo: I was playing around and if you right click while making a … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 3
Now it’s time to make bricks disappear if they group in a 2×2 square. Read part 1 and 2 if you did not already. It’s not difficult to check if bricks form a 2×2 square… and it’s not difficult to remove them from the stage. The tricky part is making bricks fill the empty spaces … Make a game like Lumines with Flash – part 3
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In the 1st part I showed you how to make a deflection engine starting from an old tutorial, now it’s time to let the player draw walls. The idea comes from Srdjan Susnic, a reader who runs the blog Ask For Game Task. The main task Srdjan accomplished … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 2
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 Today I spent some time with a game called Deflection. According to his author, it’s an addictive physics based game where the objective is to deflect the ball into the goal by creating deflection walls. I bet I scared most of you with the word “physics”. This means … Create a Flash game like Deflection
In the first part we managed to move and rotate a 2×2 square made (obviously) by 4 bricks. Now we’ll see how to make them fall when we press SPACE key. Notice that you move and rotate blocks by tapping arrow keys, but you make them fall by pressing SPACE. This because timing is essential, … Make a game like Lumines with Flash – part 2
I have to admit it… I got completely addicted to this game… so I decided to make my own Flash version. If you don’t know what is Lumines, it’s a casual game you can download from Steam. The game is simple: control squares made by 2×2 bricks of different colors falling from the top like … Make a game like Lumines with Flash
Today I played a bit with getPixel function and I want to share with you some considerations about it. First, you have to know getPixel(x,y) returns an integer that represents an RGB pixel value from a BitmapData object at a specific point (x, y). Then, I wanted to know the percentage of a color in … Playing with getPixel
If you play all successful Flash games (and you should, if you want to be a Flash game developer), surely you played ColorFill. In this game, you have to fill 80% of the stage with colors while avoiding collisions with enemies. Play the game a bit then follow this prototype The main idea to create … Create a Flash game like ColorFill – part 1
Do you remember the Poux tutorial series? If not, then read parts 1, 2 and 3 and take a look at the finished project known as Christmas Couples. I always say using prototypes to create games is a good idea, and the almost 7,000,000 plays Christmas Couples had since its release confirm my theory. Anyway, … Adding a new twist to the prototype of a Flash game like Poux
Do you know what is the flood fill algorithm? From Wikipedia: Flood fill, also called seed fill, is an algorithm that determines the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array. It is used in the “bucket” fill tool of paint programs to determine which parts of a bitmap to fill with color, … Flash flood fill implementation
When I stated writing tutorials, I did not expect I would have to write a tutorial about… using a tutorial. If you look at the most recent games published, you’ll find a lot of games are useless clones of some of my tutorials or some of Tony Pa‘s ones. I said “useless” because a tutorial … How to use a Flash game tutorial to make your own game
