One of the main features of Talesworth is the hero keeps running according to his rules until he spots a loot. Then he changes its way to grab the loot. In part 1 I showed you how to make the hero walk like in the original game, and in part 2 I introduced the line … Create a Flash game like Talesworth – Step 3: The loot
As you can see if you play Talesworth, your hero will keep on running according to the same rules “run straight until you hit a wall, then turn right by 90° until you find a walkable tile, and keep on running” unless he sees a loot. If the hero sees a loot, he changes the … Create a Flash game like Talesworth – Step 2: Line of sight
Recently I got addicted to Talesworth. It’s a great tile based puzzle game with 30 levels I recommend you to play, but it’s also a game I am recreating with a tutorial series. So let’s start… since it’s a tile based game, the barebones are very similar to Create a Flash game like Rebuild Chile. … Create a Flash game like Talesworth Adventure
Some days ago I blogged about 6 games you must be able to make in less than a day. Among these games I included Sokoban, and since I don’t remember if I’ve ever tried to make a complete Sokoban game, I did it today. In less than a day and, above all, in less than … Complete Flash Sokoban game in less than 2KB
Time to see the feature that will allow you to complete a level: removing debris. Debris can be removed in two ways: 1) Pushing them off the stage through an hole in the border walls 2) Calling an helicopter and removing them on the fly Obviously pro players will prefer the first option. First, we … Create a Flash game like Rebuild Chile – Step 4: removing debris
In this 3rd part I’ll cover a feature requested by some readers… smooth movement. In step 1 and 2, the character and the debris move square by square. This leads to a unplayable game, because the bulldozer moves too quickly. We need a smoother movement. Here is how will it work: The bulldozer now has … Create a Flash game like Rebuild Chile – Step 3: smooth movement
In this second part we’ll see how to push debris. It’s not that hard. Let me explain when your bulldozer can move in one direction: The bulldozer can move in a direction if: 1) It does not go outside the stage 2) Next tile in the selected direction is empty 3) Next tile in the … Create a Flash game like Rebuild Chile – Step 2: pushing debris
You have three reasons to play Rebuild Chile: 1) It’s a good puzzle game 2) You will help the children from Chile affected by the earthquake/tsunami because all income will be donated to rebuild Chile 3) You are going to know how to create a game like it The game is a Sokoban-like game, with … Create a Flash game like Rebuild Chile
We are about to create an intelligent camera that will follow a body in Box2D. What’s the difference between an intelligent camera and a dumb one? Simple… the intelligent camera follows the object keeping it in the middle of the screen as long as there are enough game area to fill the screen. The dumb … Following a body with the camera in Box2D – The smart way
Did you read Creation of a game with flixel and Flash Builder 4? Now it’s time to add a splash screen to the game. The splash screen or the title screen is the first thing the player sees, so we’ll add a backround image as well as the game title. First, we must change our … Making a game with flixel and Flash Builder 4 – Splash Screen
If you want to make a good game, a good camera movement is necessary. This time we’ll learn to follow a Box2D object with the camera. Box2D does not have a “camera”, so we will have to move the stage according to body position. This is the same script as Real world catapult using Box2D … Following a body with the camera in Box2D
If you want to read an interesting article about Flash games and physics, I suggest you to point your browser on Developing physics-based games with Adobe Flash Professional by Samuel Asher Rivello. I was quoted in the article, but what makes it really great is the way it will guide you through the creation of … Quoted on Adobe Edge: April 2010 edition
