You should know Bejeweled from PopCap Games. It’s a game which have been played millions, if not billions, of times. Now PopCap just released the 3rd version of his blockbuster. To celebrate this event, just like I made when I coded a complete Flash Sokoban game in less than 2KB, I made a Bejeweled version … Complete Bejeweled game in less than 2KB
The longest common substring problem is to find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two strings. This means if we have two strings, let’s say “ampersand” and “misunderstanding”, the result is given by “ers” and “and”. It may seem a silly exercise but it’s the basic of most … Solving the longest common substring problem with AS3
Do you remember Krasimir Tsonev? He’s the author of the tween manager class and The Big Adventure. He gave me the permission to publish an interesting post about Flash and search engine optimization. Many people will say that Flash is not SEO friendly. Actually that’s not 100% true. Flash is just a tool that shows … Deep linking in flash with AS3
When I say the most valuable resource in a blog is made by its readers, I am right. Readers make the blog popular, contribute with precious comments and ideas, like the ones published by Luis Francesco Silva, author of Flave and a Box2D platform engine. This time he got addicted by Jelly Car. It’s a … JellyPhysics soft body engine for Flash
After more than two years since the release of Gold Miner tutorial, Luke Mikelonis wants to share with us the AS3 version he made to to practice up a bit on AS3. There are four classes: Main (the main one), Boulders, Pod, Rod. There isn’t that much theory to explain as the basics have been … Create a Flash game like Gold Miner – AS3 version
Not so long ago we discussed about the fastest way to find the distance between two points. In that case, it was a challenge between Euclidean and Manhattan distance. By the way, AS3 provides geom.Point class which comes with built in methods to deal with distances, such as distance and polar. Refer to the official … AS3 geom.Point Vs trigonometry
As promised, here I am with the 3rd part of this tutorial, showing you how to manage fire rate and multiple bullets. Moreover, I made some changes to bullet_mc class following the suggestions Harack left in the comments of step 2. To manage fire rate, we need to set up a timer each time the … Create a Flash game like Pixel Purge step 3 – Fire rate and spread
FlashPunk is a free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games. On the official site Chevy Ray Johnston, the author, says this framework is designed for use with the free Flex framework, used for building Flash applications; by combining this with a code editor such as FlashDevelop or Flash Builder, you can import … Basic FlashPunk game prototype using Flash IDE
Today I was preparing a couple of new tutorials when I found an uint glitch in AS3. Take this code: var a:uint=0; a–; trace(a); test it and in your output window you will see 4294967295 because it’s the maximum unsigned integer representable. Try this code var a:uint=0; a–; trace(a); trace(uint.MAX_VALUE); and you will see 4294967295 … Found an AS3 uint glitch?
Do you know Packt Publishing? It’s a publishing company specialized focused books on specific technologies and solutions for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike. I used to call Packt Publishing (PP from now on) books as “the books with great content and great photos on the cover”. I am sure you know what I … Emanuele Feronato + Packt Publishing = big news
In step 1 I showed you how to move your spaceship, now it’s time to fire some bullets. First, we need to more objects: the crosshair, called crosshair_mc, and the bullet itself, called bullet_mc. Firing is very easy, as all you need to do is keeping the mouse button pressed. In the original game there … Create a Flash game like Pixel Purge step 2 – Firing bullets
Are you playing Pixel Purge? It’s a good mix between a shooter and an avoider. I am going to show you how to create a replica of this game, and I’m starting from player movement. In Pixel Purge, you control a spaceship with arrows or WASD keys in an level that’s as big as twice … Create a Flash game like Pixel Purge step 1 – player movement
