To show you how hard I am going to try wiping the vaporware out of my life, I am publishing the 3rd part of the platform game tutorial. Read parts 1 and 2 if you don’t remember what I am talking about. In this update, I introduced two new tile types: the lava tile that … Creation of a platform game with Flash – step 3
One of the most popular Flash games is BoxHead by Sean Cooper, that released the 5th game of the series called The Zombie Wars. At the moment I am just giving a small prototype of the “hero” controlled with arrow keys and the “zombie” chasing the hero. One of the interesting things about BoxHead is … Make a Flash game like BoxHead – part 1
It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Maybe in the near future MochiAds guys will be able to answer this question. This is a message from JamesonH: Here’s a little feature that one of our Computer Scientists, Emad, put together to show how global Flash games are. It’s still very experimental and there are a lot … Where in the world are your Flash games being played now?
One of the biggest problems of step 3 was Bombuzal waled sooo slowly. So I added a variable called walk_speed where I assign the walking speed in pixels per frame. Then, in the original game you have to think fast. You can’t stay on the same tile for more than about 5 secods, or the … From zero to Bombuzal – step 4
Sometimes you need to make your Flash movie (or game) to work only on selected domains. Sometimes you may want to blacklist some domains so they can’t display your Flash content. This is called sitelocking, and means you lock a movie to a specific site. Let’s see how can you sitelock a Flash file. The … How to sitelock a Flash movie
Here it is another fresh Flash game prototype by FrozenHaddock, that jumps from the forum to the blog. FrozenHaddock was playing around with Flash as he says, when he come out with an interesting prototype. Something I was fiddling about with, might work well as a puzzle game of some sort. Some people might find … BallPusher: new Flash game prototype
In almost all “kill the enemy” games you can see a green energy bar turning orange and red as the foe get wounded by our fire. It’s time to show you how can you do this. In this example, I will start from the Flash prototype of a game like Balloon Invasion example but obviously … Displaying enemy’s energy bar in Flash games
Well, I don’t know if it’s really new or some of you already saw it elsewhere… but I’ve never seen this way to control the player It works this way: you move the mouse pointer. When you click the mouse, the player will move in the opposite direction of your mouse pointer. The closer the … A new player control concept
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 More than a month passed since the last update of the experiment. Now it’s time to show you how things are going. As you can see on the weekly updated widget, my games are still performing well, with the only exception of … Experiment: monetizing a Flash game – Part 8
Today I’ll show you a Flash component that you will find very useful for a photogallery or an interactive portfolio. Remember that there are thousands of sites showing their best photos/works, and you must show your work in an interesting way if you want to get noticed. Personally, I don’t click anymore on the classic … Create a nice Flash photogallery with gridNavigation component
One of the latest successful games released last week was Balloon Invasion. It’s a mix between an artillery and a defense game, with a World War II theme. I made a little prototype of the game, that will be explained another day. It’s nothing so interesting, just a mix between Create a flash artillery game … Flash prototype of a game like Balloon Invasion
In the previous step we had the problem of the level panning away if the mouse is outside the movie. The first solution come from souled that created a button in the entire stage to manage the panning //create an invisible movie clip across the entire stage using API _root.createEmptyMovieClip(“base”, 1); with (base) { lineStyle(2, … From zero to Bombuzal – step 3
