In the 1st step we created the units and the engine to select them. Now it’s time to write the code to let selected unit(s) send troops to other unit. I created a new frame for the sphere object, a green circle, representing the target unit. Let’s make a recap: Frame 1: black circle, unselected … Create a Flash Game like Nano War – step 2
Some days ago I played a bit Nano War. It’s an interesting RTS, and pretty easy to delvelop. In this part we’ll analyze the unit selection system. In Nano War your units are circles, and this helps a lot because it’s very easy to determine collisions knowing radius and center. Anyway, you can select units … Create a Flash Game like Nano War
Ok, so you created your awesome game, embedded MochiAds leaderboards and want to publish high scores in your homepage, in another Flash movie, or wherever you want, just outside the game. Just think about Kongregate, that shows top scores on the right of the game you are playing. That’s what we are going to do. … Showing MochiAds leaderboards in any Flash movie or web page
Let me introduce you an interesting opportunity to improve the look and feel of your games and win cash prizes: MeezInside Avatar Games Contest hosted by Meez and FlashGameLicense. You should already know FGL for its marketplace and First Impressions services. Meez is a social entertainment site where can create animated 3D avatars, dress up … Create 3D avatars and win over $20,000 with Meez and FlashGameLicense
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In this 3rd part we are going to create a complete game with exit and two levels. Read parts 1 and 2 if you haven’t done it already. I’ll also fix a bug reported by Questo: I was playing around and if you right click while making a … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 3
My 10th released game is my 9th produced one. If you wonder why Summer Couples was made a month after the game I am going to introduce now, it’s because looking for a sponsorship can take some time. More than a month in this case. Once I uploaded the game on FlashGameLicense I received some … RRODE: the second one-week game
I know a spanish proverb saying “La mejor verdad se dice jugando” that sounds like “Tell the shocking truth when you’re kidding”. That’s what Mr. Sun at the Helion Code said about 50 Ways to Make us HATE your Flash Game. He is telling the shocking truth in a friendly way… but these are 50 … 50 ways to make us HATE your Flash game
An interesting game released these days is Totem Destroyer Your mission is to destroy the totems without letting the golden Idol (aka Tot) fall into the ground. It’s a game that can be easily done with the AS3 physics engine Box2DFlashAS3, recently updated at version 2.0.1 I already talked about it in the post Playing … Create a Flash game like Totem Destroyer
Now it’s time to make bricks disappear if they group in a 2×2 square. Read part 1 and 2 if you did not already. It’s not difficult to check if bricks form a 2×2 square… and it’s not difficult to remove them from the stage. The tricky part is making bricks fill the empty spaces … Make a game like Lumines with Flash – part 3
You know Flash content is invisible to search engines. In order to have your Flash page (or game) indexed, you have to create an HTML page with some keywords, and pray. Until yesterday. Today, something is changing in Search Engines Optimization (SEO) techniques. Look what Google and Adobe have to say From Adobe Adobe is … Flash and search engines: the revolution
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In the 1st part I showed you how to make a deflection engine starting from an old tutorial, now it’s time to let the player draw walls. The idea comes from Srdjan Susnic, a reader who runs the blog Ask For Game Task. The main task Srdjan accomplished … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 2
“How do I make my game better?” is the number one question Flash developers ask. Perhaps you’ve finished the game and think you’re done… but no sponsors are interested. Or perhaps you have a rough version of the game finished but have no idea how to turn it into a polished gem of a game. … Fine tune your Flash game with First Impressions service
