With the so-called “Web 2.0” and the “social network era”, just making a game and publishing it on various portals couldn’t be enough. Some days ago we saw how Bomb Digger allows to play extra levels on its official site, now it’s time to introduce you a more complete project. Do you remember HiRoads developer … HiRoads case study: building a community around a game
Some days ago I showed you how to create a Flash Facebook application using the AS3 API. Now Yarden Refaeli from Rigel Games is sharing with us his experience in creating a Flash Facebook application using another technique. Let’s read it: « Hello, my name is Yarden Refaeli and I have been flash programmer for … Creation of a Flash Facebook application using AMFPHP
It’s time to make some considerations on the Facebook application made with the Facebook Actionscript API I blogged some days ago. There was a doubt about putting a secret key in the swf file. Well, you should never give away your secret key, but let me point on two things: 1) You can encrypt your … Creating a Flash Facebook application with the Facebook Actionscript API – part 2
Here we are with the 3rd step. Read steps 1 and 2, then continue with this post. One thing I missed in Stabilize! was the “next” feature, something showing the block we are going do drop after the current one. The first time I saw this feature was in Tetris… now try to imagine yourself … Creation of a Flash Stabilize! clone using Box2D – part 3
It’s time to see how can we build a Flash Facebook application. What we are going to do is a Flash movie to be embedded in a Facebook application, able to interact with the user by publishing notes and stories on the wall. The first thing we need is the official Facebook Actionscript API. This … Creating a Flash Facebook application with the Facebook Actionscript API
Are you looking for a payment method completely embedded into your Flash game/app? Then Social Gold might be your choice. I’ve been in contact for a while with Vikas Gupta and Michael Haswell, and I am sharing with you some relevant information about this brand new service: Jambool, Inc., operator of leading virtual currency and … Social Gold releases Secure In-Game Payments for Flash
Time to add some new features to our Stabilize! clone we started in this post. The features we’ll add this time are: * Restricted area in which you can drop crates * “Real” crates, made with a movieclip, take the place of the boxes you can draw with the mouse As you can see, the … Creation of a Flash Stabilize! clone using Box2D – part 2
In Triqui’s picks 1 I told you Stabilize! is a good game to clone using Box2D. And I would use this post to focus on another thing too… it’s about recycling. I mean… once you code for a while, or follow developer’s blogs like this one providing a lot of source codes, probably most of … Creation of a Flash Stabilize! clone using Box2D – part 1
It’s time to create a rope with Box2d. To start defining a rope, we’ll start from something similar: a chain. A chain is a series of two or more connected links. The smaller and closer the links, the more flexible the chain. So we can define a rope as a “perfect chain”, with infinite links. … Basic Box2D rope
In Box2D, normally every object collides with other objects in the stage. But sometimes we may need a way to make an object collide with only certain objects, ignoring the rest. I am not talking about sensors, but real objects that won’t collide with certain other objects. This feature can be done with filtering. Collision … Introducing Box2D filtering
In most Box2D projects you can see how to render bodies or attach objects to them, but I couldn’t see any tutorial about rendering joints. If you look at the classic rendering loop it’s something like this one for (var bb:b2Body = m_world.m_bodyList; bb; bb = bb.m_next) { if (bb.m_userData is Sprite) { bb.m_userData.x = … Rendering joints with Box2D
