Since I think devlopers’ attention will focus on mobile game developement during these days, let’s see a feature that will let you use fonts in a way that will successfully adapt across devices, as introduced in the Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes guide. FTE (Flash Text Engine) The FTE provides low-level support … Rendering text in AS3 using FTE (Flash Text Engine)
When you are about to design a level or whatever else in Box2D, you have to face some design issues due to different unit measurements (Flash works with pixels while Box2D uses meters) and the common problems in level design: the need to have a WYSIWYG interface. Some frameworks such as Citrus Engine, have a … Basic Box2D editor using Flash movieclips
In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture is a way of combining pointing device movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Pointing device gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program. They can also be useful for people who have difficulties typing on a keyboard. For … Detecting mouse gestures in Flash with AS3
Finally it’s time to start talking about a real Artificial Intelligence algorithm. As said, I won’t use waypoints because I want to focus on “real” artificial intelligence, I want to make cars drive like if they were controlled by a player. The idea Let’s imagine you are driving a car, you aren’t blind so you … Create a Flash racing game tutorial – Artificial intelligence
Do you remember Worms game and its destructible terrain? Jordi Sanglas Molist explains us how to create a basic destructible terrain with AS3 « Today, browsing the “most popular” posts, I found “Create a flash artillery game – step 1“, where you talked about making a game similar to Worms. Then, I thought: “How will … Worms-like destructible terrain in Flash
I promised I’d introduced artificial intelligence in a racing game, and I am starting with artificial stupidity. Anyway, I managed the car to somehow run around the track. I said “stupidity” but I should have said “blindness”, because the CPU driver is actually blind. How would you react if you were blind and crazy enough … Create a Flash Racing Game Tutorial – Artificial stupidity
One AS3 DisplayObject method I don’t see that much used since AS2 became obsolete is localToGlobal. Now I’ll show you how useful can be this method when it’s time to save coding time. First, the definition: localToGlobal(point:Point):Point Converts the point object from the display object’s (local) coordinates to the Stage (global) coordinates. Let’s see what … Understanding AS3 localToGlobal method
In most cases, when you design a Flash game the main screen is the last thing you add to your project. This way, sometimes you may forget to include a feature or two because you want your game to be released into the wild. Since you shouldn’t understimate the main screen (all in all it’s … Anatomy of a Flash game main screen
The porting of the most popular AS2 tutorials continues with a basic AS3 version of the Flash racing game script. I said “basic” because it does not have all features, this time it covers only movement and collision detection because I want to add more features before polishing it. In the detail, I am developing … Create a Flash Racing Game Tutorial – AS3 version
In this 4th step we’ll cover one-way doors. One-way doors are tiles the hero can walk only once, before they become unwalkable. First, let me show you a fix to the script shown in step 3. In the example, the loot disappears when the hero sees it, he does not have to touch it. Since … Create a Flash game like Talesworth – Step 4: One-way doors
From Wikipedia: The Levenshtein distance between two strings is defined as the minimum number of edits needed to transform one string into the other, with the allowable edit operations being insertion, deletion, or substitution of a single character. In real world, one of the most common uses of this distance is the suggestion Google throws … Find Levenshtein distance with AS3
I receive almost daily requests to port the old AS2 survival horror game in AS3, so here it is. Since it was an easy conversion, I decided to add two features: * Adjustable torch power using keys 1 and 2 * A flicker variable to set torch flickering rate (0-100) So we can also have … Create a survival horror game in Flash – AS3 version
