Every Flash developer is facing security risks because of the fairly easy ways an Adobe Flash SWF file can be decompiled and reverse engineered. Without protection, anyone can easily reconstruct your SWF files stealing your work. I already blogged about Flash Thieve and SWF Protector as a remedy, but this time I want you to … Protect you SWF files online with SWFLOCK
I already showed you two ways of editing Box2D environments with Bison Kick and simply using the Flash IDE. Today I’ll show you the most advanced editor at the moment: World Construction Kit made with Box2D C++ 2D physics engine compiled with Adobe Alchemy. The demos on the official site are really awesome and the … Box2d Flash Alchemy Port + World Construction Kit
In computer programming, a data type (or datatype) is a classification identifying one of various types of data, such as floating-point, integer, or Boolean, stating the possible values for that type, the operations that can be done on that type, and the way the values of that type are stored. (source: Wikipedia). Obviously any language … Creation of new data types in AS3: Linked List
This is one of those days when you want to make a thing work that way FULLSTOP. And that’s it… this is the typical Blockage movement: I wanted to do it without any timeline tween or tricks to change registration point on the fly, just using localToGlobal method. If you aren’t familiar with this method, … Create a Flash game like Blockage – Movement prototype
After another truck of Aspirin, Jordi Sanglas Molist is back with the 3rd step of his Worms tutorial. I’ve finished part 3. I almost got a headache. Forgive me if there are some mistakes, I wrote this post and the comments quickly. Now the character is affected by the explosions. To do that, I added … Worms-like destructible terrain in Flash – Part 3
Some time ago I published a Basic Box2D editor using Flash movieclips. Now it’s time to show you something way more interesting called Bison Kick by Jacob Schatz who runs the blog jacobschatz.com (bookmark it! It contains a lot of useful information). It’s an online Box2D editor with live preview. Besides it’s still under development, … Create Box2D levels in a quick with Bison Kick
Did you play Blockage? It’s a perfect game to make a tutorial series because at every level it introduces a new feature, so level after level you will see something new both in the game and in the prototype. Other than that, it’s a tile based puzzle. This first part will focus on level data. … Create a Flash game like Blockage
I publish this tutorial with the permission of Krasimir Tsonev, from Bulgaria, who runs krasimirtsonev.com (take a look at the light bulbs: don’t you think it can be done using a basic Box2D rope?). It’s an amazing tutorial with clean and well commented code that will guide you through the process of the creation of … Create your own tween manager class in AS3
After having some troubles with the email, I am finally able to post Jordi Sanglas Molist‘s second step of Worms-like destructible terrain in Flash. Now the character can jump and move. I’ve also solved a bug: in the last script I checked a collision using the feet, so if the terrain was between both feet … Worms-like destructible terrain in Flash – Part 2
Do you know what is a Movieclip registration point? If you ever played with Flash drawing tools, you should. The registration point is like the origin in a Cartesian coordinate system, the default point of a Movieclip from which its x and y coordinates are calculated. In the example we are about to see, I … Changing a Movieclip registration point on the fly with AS3
I always loved games that revive an old concept with new features, and Claytus Hood Tower Defense is one of them. Based on the old “tower defense” theme, it introduces new strategy options with large, scrollable maps and the capability to block some paths to make enemies take a larger route to attack you base. … Claytus Hood Tower Defense case study
