Today I was preparing a couple of new tutorials when I found an uint glitch in AS3. Take this code: var a:uint=0; a–; trace(a); test it and in your output window you will see 4294967295 because it’s the maximum unsigned integer representable. Try this code var a:uint=0; a–; trace(a); trace(uint.MAX_VALUE); and you will see 4294967295 … Found an AS3 uint glitch?
Do you know Packt Publishing? It’s a publishing company specialized focused books on specific technologies and solutions for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike. I used to call Packt Publishing (PP from now on) books as “the books with great content and great photos on the cover”. I am sure you know what I … Emanuele Feronato + Packt Publishing = big news
In step 1 I showed you how to move your spaceship, now it’s time to fire some bullets. First, we need to more objects: the crosshair, called crosshair_mc, and the bullet itself, called bullet_mc. Firing is very easy, as all you need to do is keeping the mouse button pressed. In the original game there … Create a Flash game like Pixel Purge step 2 – Firing bullets
Are you playing Pixel Purge? It’s a good mix between a shooter and an avoider. I am going to show you how to create a replica of this game, and I’m starting from player movement. In Pixel Purge, you control a spaceship with arrows or WASD keys in an level that’s as big as twice … Create a Flash game like Pixel Purge step 1 – player movement
Every Flash developer is facing security risks because of the fairly easy ways an Adobe Flash SWF file can be decompiled and reverse engineered. Without protection, anyone can easily reconstruct your SWF files stealing your work. I already blogged about Flash Thieve and SWF Protector as a remedy, but this time I want you to … Protect you SWF files online with SWFLOCK
I already showed you two ways of editing Box2D environments with Bison Kick and simply using the Flash IDE. Today I’ll show you the most advanced editor at the moment: World Construction Kit made with Box2D C++ 2D physics engine compiled with Adobe Alchemy. The demos on the official site are really awesome and the … Box2d Flash Alchemy Port + World Construction Kit
In computer programming, a data type (or datatype) is a classification identifying one of various types of data, such as floating-point, integer, or Boolean, stating the possible values for that type, the operations that can be done on that type, and the way the values of that type are stored. (source: Wikipedia). Obviously any language … Creation of new data types in AS3: Linked List
After the huge success of Flash Games Market Survey, Mochi Media in partnership with Flash Game License and Adobe present 2010 Flash Games Market Survey. Last year’s survey showed just how vibrant the space is, it’s time to give some information again to help Mochi and partners to improve Flash gaming world. In addition, you … Flash Games Market Survey – 2010 edition
This is one of those days when you want to make a thing work that way FULLSTOP. And that’s it… this is the typical Blockage movement: I wanted to do it without any timeline tween or tricks to change registration point on the fly, just using localToGlobal method. If you aren’t familiar with this method, … Create a Flash game like Blockage – Movement prototype
After another truck of Aspirin, Jordi Sanglas Molist is back with the 3rd step of his Worms tutorial. I’ve finished part 3. I almost got a headache. Forgive me if there are some mistakes, I wrote this post and the comments quickly. Now the character is affected by the explosions. To do that, I added … Worms-like destructible terrain in Flash – Part 3
Some time ago I published a Basic Box2D editor using Flash movieclips. Now it’s time to show you something way more interesting called Bison Kick by Jacob Schatz who runs the blog jacobschatz.com (bookmark it! It contains a lot of useful information). It’s an online Box2D editor with live preview. Besides it’s still under development, … Create Box2D levels in a quick with Bison Kick
Did you play Blockage? It’s a perfect game to make a tutorial series because at every level it introduces a new feature, so level after level you will see something new both in the game and in the prototype. Other than that, it’s a tile based puzzle. This first part will focus on level data. … Create a Flash game like Blockage
