Category: Flash
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Understanding pixels and meters with Box2D and how to select an object with mouse – part 1
This will be the longest post title in blogging history… anyway I am about to explain you two things that seem to be still unclear about AS3 version…
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AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 5: gameplay
Once introduced the score in AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 4: score, it’s time to create some gameplay. The idea is to create a game like…
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Ten Million Plays Club membership
This is a great milestone for a game developer, in my opinion. My second Flash game, Christmas Couples, a game released almost a year ago, reached 10,000,000 views!…
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AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 4: score
In AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 3: walls I introduce some obstacles to kill the circle, now it’s time to make it earn some points when…
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Flash file to make your own key icons
A couple of days ago I released two Photoshop files to make your own key icons. Now Samuel Bonfante sent me the Flash version of those PSD files,…
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How to ask for help: the Philippines example
Normally everyday I receive about 10 emails asking for help. They all seem to be made with a template, something like this: “hey this script does not work.…
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AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 3: walls
Welcome to the 3rd step of this tutorial. It’s time to cover walls, or whatever you may call some fixed, deadly obstacles. Continuing on the OOP lane, the…
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AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 2: coins
In the previous step I showed you how to create a simple “move-the-ball” game using AS3 classes. Now it’s time to introduce some more elements… some coins to…
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ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 Migration Cheatsheet
If you are worried about the changes introduced by AS3 and would like a cheatsheet for a quick reference of most of them, then you should take a…
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Halloween Couples
The first game of the second part of the experiment is Halloween Couples. It’s basically the sequel of Summer Couples with a different theme and an hexagonal environment.…
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Flash game creation tutorial – part 1 (with AS3 classes)
Old readers should remember Flash game creation tutorial – part 1… it’s an ond AS2 tutorial about the creation of a game like Ball Revamped and its sequels.…
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The experiment – one year later
On october 28th, 2007, exactly one year ago, I started an experiment about monetizing a Flash game and released a one-day game called Circle Chain. Since that day,…
