You can call it complex shapes, compound shapes, complex objects, compound objects or even poisoned underpants, but you all want to create complex “things” with Box2D. Despite the “complex” word, it’s very easy to create one. You just have to add multiple shapes to a body. If you followed my latest Box2D tutorials, you will … The magic of compound objects with Box2D
When you are about to create a complex script with Box2D – or even a simple one, but that’s complex for your skills – I suggest to enable debug draw. Debug draw will provide you everything you need in order to verify your script is working correctly, and once you are satisfied with the result, … Understanding Box2D debug draw
The blogsphere is magic. When you start a blog, if you do a good job, some people inspired by you will start blogging, and probably inspire you. This is the case of Michael Williams, who said I was one of the main reasons he decided to make a blog about Flash game development. He wrote … Learn AS3 by following this simple avoider game tutorial
I was playing with Google Maps API for Flash when I noticed the tutorials in the official page are somehow not that smart, so I am going to clarify some things. Follow these simple steps: Sign up for a Google Maps API Key at this link. Once you submit the form, ignore everything you see … How to use Google Maps API with Flash AS3
I already talked about perfect mazes a couple of years ago with Step by step perfect maze generation with php and Perfect maze generation with Flash actionscript, but now it’s time to make it with AS3 and understand how can we use a perfect maze. Think about a perfect maze as a maze with no … Perfect maze generation with AS3
In previous part we added some gameplay, now it’s time to add timing. I recommend you to read Understanding AS3 Timer Class. I used time for two reasons: first, I want the player to collect as much coins as he can before a certain amount of time (to be defined), second to give the player … AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 6: timing
This is ideally the next part after Understanding pixels and meters with Box2D and how to select an object with mouse – part 2, but it’s so important understanding how to drag objects with Box2D that I decided to change the title. Anyway, in this uncommented example (a commented one will follow) you can select … Dragging objects with Box2D Flash
A lot of time ago I wrote about AS2 time management in Flash simple timer/countdown. Now it’s time to see how to manage time with AS3. AS3 has its own class to manage time, the Timer class. You can read some documentation about this class in the official AS3 page, but in this test drive … Understanding AS3 Timer Class
