Do you know what is the flood fill algorithm? From Wikipedia: Flood fill, also called seed fill, is an algorithm that determines the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array. It is used in the “bucket” fill tool of paint programs to determine which parts of a bitmap to fill with color, … Flash flood fill implementation
When I stated writing tutorials, I did not expect I would have to write a tutorial about… using a tutorial. If you look at the most recent games published, you’ll find a lot of games are useless clones of some of my tutorials or some of Tony Pa‘s ones. I said “useless” because a tutorial … How to use a Flash game tutorial to make your own game
This is a very importat thing to know when you are about to design Flash forms, or any application that needs to manage data such as an highscore table. This is a standalone tutorial, but the basics explained will be useful in the Creation of a Flash highscores API course. The only method we need … Flash sending, manipulating and receiving data with sendAndLoad
You all should know Facebook. I think it would be interesting to integrate your Flash game into a Facebook application. There are more options than you can imagine, but at the moment I’ll just embed a game, nothing more. Just remember there will be a lot more. Obviously, first you have to have a Facebook … Integrate your Flash game on Facebook
This is a month full of rich contests. Today we’ll talk about XPOGames and its $18,000 cash and prizes contest The chief of Management and PR wants to explain you all what’s hot at XPOGames: XPOGames.com / Management and PR We have issued an official Media Alert (or Press Release) last week which includes all … XPOGames developer contest: $18,000 in prizes
The first post of the new year (you should know the new year starts on May, 27th) is made by Sunil Changrani and it’s about managing multiple balls collisions with Flash. I already published a tutorial about Managing ball vs ball collision with Flash but this time we’ll manage any number of balls. Sunil was … Managing multiple balls collisions with Flash
This post is written by Chris Benjaminsen from Nonoba.com. Nonoba is a gaming community where you can play games with your friends. What I personally like about Nonoba is they allow you to create your own achievements. See my Bees n’ Flowers page to see what I mean. This is Chris Benjaminsen: I have been … Nonoba Flash Multiplayer API contest: $20,000 in prizes
When I am looking for an interesting font for my web design, the first site I look at is dafont.com. What I like of this site is the capability to preview the font I am going to use with a sample text. We are going to build something like a font viewer with AS3, previewing … Create a font browser with Flash AS3
While my second one-week game is still under level design, I released this game based on the Eskiv prototype. It’s called Jamag and it’s Just Another Mouse Avoider Game. What makes this game different than the ohter one million mouse avoider games, is that I am planning to start a contest for all players to … Jamag: a Flash game you’d better master
Now that you know how to communicate between two Flash movies thanks to the Creation of a Flash highscores API tutorial, it’s time to introduce the next step that will make you save your highest score on your computer. It’s not an hard prototype once you read Create an Eskiv Flash game tutorial (in order … Creation of a Flash highscores API – Step 2
More and more game portals are developing their own Flash API to manage high scores. Having high scores means giving players the opportunity to compete for a leaderboard, making them play your game more and more. And making you earn more and more. I am showing you how to make one. I’ll use LocalConnection, like, … Creation of a Flash highscores API
Today I played the millionth mouse avoider Flash game… Shirk! I am a real pro at mouse avoider games… look how easily I beat the hard level. Watch the video! What a champion… This happens because you can right click the mouse, showing the menu. As far as I know, you can’t prevent the menu … Preventing the right mouse cheat in your Flash games
