Here I am with the 4th part of this prototype. In part 3 we saw the “next” feature, this time we’ll trigger the collision among crates of the same color. This will allow you to create the classic “match stuff of the same color to remove it from the game” or maybe something more creative. … Creation of a Flash Stabilize! clone using Box2D – part 4
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
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
In a comment to Pumpkin Story prototype, a reader asked for a function to simulate a hook. This can be quite easily done in some steps. This first step will set a rule: you can only hook to a static body. Obviously it’s not a mandatory, rule, but just a gameplay one. In this example, … Simulating a hook with Box2D
