Before you start reading this tutorial, there is something you must do. Turn off the lights, close your eyes, raise your hands, and say: « Hail, Lord of Flash Game. Shall I read this tutorial and forget it before I try to flood the web with another silly Coloring Book Game » Really, seriously… I … Creation of a Flash coloring book
« I’ve just found a site that won a top international online advertising award – and it’s been blatantly lifted from me! Its a flash application that has the same vectors and almost certainly the same AS code. Is there anything I can do? I’m in the UK – they’re in Brazil. » The guy … Protect your work from ActionScript code theft with SWF Protector
One of the new features introduced with Box2D 2.1a is the improved contact listener class which comes in hand when we want to create one-way platforms, or “clouds”. This can be made thanks to a function called before the contact is processed… something like “hey, two bodies are about to collide, what should I do?”… … Understanding Box2D’s one-way platforms, aka CLOUDS
After seeing the character creation in Box2D Flash game creation tutorial – part 1, it’s time to add some coins to collect. This process will involve some interesting Box2D features, like sensors and custom collision management. I would suggest to read the basics of sensors at Erase Box: the tutorial and custom collision management at … Box2D Flash game creation tutorial – part 2
I am playing isometric games for more than 20 years… probably started with Q*bert, one of the oldest games I played is Head Over Heels on my Commodore 64, and I was an hardcore player of UFO: Enemy Unknown. As you should know, isometric projection is a method of visually representing three-dimensional objects in two … 11 Flash isometric engines you can use in your games
Do you remember Emanuele Ornella from Mind the Move? It’s the guy behind the Come2Play multiplayer API tutorial posted about a month ago. Now he is explaining us a new way to monetize Flash games: GamesChart « When I first saw the announcement on Flash Game Developers group on www.linkedIn.com about the GamesChart beta program … Monetize your Flash games with GamesChart
My first Flash game tutorial ever was Flash game creation tutorial – part 1. It was the first of a series to create a game like jmtb‘s ball games. It was an old AS2 series, and some steps have been ported in AS3 with Create a Flash ball game using AS3. The “ball” game is … Box2D Flash game creation tutorial – part 1
In Box2d, bodies aren’t only affected by gravity and collisions, but you can also apply forces to them. Knowing the right force to apply is very important when you want to control a body, as you may want to do in a Flash game Let’s see the forces you can apply: Applying a force public … Understanding Box2D applicable forces
After seeing the Lineball video teaser I got some email asking me how did I make the hollow circle with Box2D, and how to get a smooth drawing using box primitives. Well, I have to say I didn’t use Box2d, but another library called Collision Detection Kit. I’ll publish some tutorial about it once I’ll … Flash AS3 Pixel based circle collision engine
Do you remember Partigen? Andrew Fitzgerald from Desuade released the new version, of his amazing particle effects engine: Partigen 2. Featuring over 120 exclusive preset effects, Partigen 2 is the first and only extension for Flash that let’s you to create complex particle effects in just a click. The list of features is huge, so … Create incredible particle effects with Partigen 2
PixelBlitz Engine is an old game framework for Actionscript3 created by Richard Davey from Photon Storm. As said, it’s not that new, there isn’t any documentation or tutorial or even a feature list. So, you may wonder why should I write about it, considering it’s a bitmap-based framework just like Flixel, which has a better … PixelBlitz AS3 game framework
