You should know Bejeweled from PopCap Games. It’s a game which have been played millions, if not billions, of times. Now PopCap just released the 3rd version of his blockbuster. To celebrate this event, just like I made when I coded a complete Flash Sokoban game in less than 2KB, I made a Bejeweled version … Complete Bejeweled game in less than 2KB
Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually anyone at work or home inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects. With ROME you can create everything from printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites, with a simple and creative environment. Initially … Create a Flash page flip gallery in five minutes with Project ROME
The longest common substring problem is to find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two strings. This means if we have two strings, let’s say “ampersand” and “misunderstanding”, the result is given by “ers” and “and”. It may seem a silly exercise but it’s the basic of most … Solving the longest common substring problem with AS3
Do you remember Krasimir Tsonev? He’s the author of the tween manager class and The Big Adventure. He gave me the permission to publish an interesting post about Flash and search engine optimization. Many people will say that Flash is not SEO friendly. Actually that’s not 100% true. Flash is just a tool that shows … Deep linking in flash with AS3
If you are a Flash game developer or a publisher, you shouldn’t miss Flash Gaming Summit 2011. For the third year the conference will bring together leaders in the Flash game space to share industry insights and strategies on successful game design, development and monetization. Do you want some names? Chris Harris from Ninja Kiwi … Don’t miss Flash Gaming Summit 2011
Do you know what is Adobe Alchemy? Alchemy allows programmers to compile C and C++ scripts into SWC files to make them run on Adobe Flash Player 10 or Adobe AIR 1.5. In other words, you can compile the hundreds of millions of lines of existing open source C and C++ project to use them … Getting started with Adobe Alchemy – Mac version
When I say the most valuable resource in a blog is made by its readers, I am right. Readers make the blog popular, contribute with precious comments and ideas, like the ones published by Luis Francesco Silva, author of Flave and a Box2D platform engine. This time he got addicted by Jelly Car. It’s a … JellyPhysics soft body engine for Flash
Are you looking for a comprehensive guide about getting your game sponsored? Ryan Wolniak from Freelance Flash Games just released a book to help game developers make more money from their flash games: Getting your Flash Game Sponsored. Ryan spent nine months to write this guide about making a Flash game more appealing to sponsors. … Getting your Flash game sponsored – the book
After more than two years since the release of Gold Miner tutorial, Luke Mikelonis wants to share with us the AS3 version he made to to practice up a bit on AS3. There are four classes: Main (the main one), Boulders, Pod, Rod. There isn’t that much theory to explain as the basics have been … Create a Flash game like Gold Miner – AS3 version
Not so long ago we discussed about the fastest way to find the distance between two points. In that case, it was a challenge between Euclidean and Manhattan distance. By the way, AS3 provides geom.Point class which comes with built in methods to deal with distances, such as distance and polar. Refer to the official … AS3 geom.Point Vs trigonometry
As promised, here I am with the 3rd part of this tutorial, showing you how to manage fire rate and multiple bullets. Moreover, I made some changes to bullet_mc class following the suggestions Harack left in the comments of step 2. To manage fire rate, we need to set up a timer each time the … Create a Flash game like Pixel Purge step 3 – Fire rate and spread
FlashPunk is a free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games. On the official site Chevy Ray Johnston, the author, says this framework is designed for use with the free Flex framework, used for building Flash applications; by combining this with a code editor such as FlashDevelop or Flash Builder, you can import … Basic FlashPunk game prototype using Flash IDE
