As you should know, MochiAds is not only the largest ad network for Flash games, but it also provides additional – and free – services to its users. One interesting feature is highscores management. In the MochiAd.as file you must include in your game in order to show ads, there are two functions, without any … How to embed MochiAds highscores in your game
Today is a very important day. For three reasons. First: For the first time (as far as I know) a coder that published a complete game with MochiAds released the full source code of its game. Second: It’s a damn good and complete game with loading, splash, gameplay, game over, and highscore table. Third: I … Complete Flash pool game with highscores
Jay is Games is hosting his 5th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, sponsored by Gimme5games, Mochi Media and Adobe. Gimme5Games may seem the million-th games portal in the net, but it’s owned by Eidos (Tomb Rider guys), while Mochi Media is the company behind MochiAds and MochiBot. Adobe is… well… Adobe. To enter, you have to … Win $3,500 with the Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5
How many times did you find an option to save the game in Flash? How many times did you see a game that keeps track of your previously solved levels, like Nitrome’s Snow Drift? Today you’ll learn how to do it… and it’s very simple! We can do it with just a couple of instructions … Managing savegames with Flash shared objects
I am starting the new year with a post about commons mistakes when using a dynamic text in Flash, and how to manage it 1) Give your text an instance name Giving your text an instance name will make your dynamic text to be changed more easily than using the Var field. For instance, if … 5 tips for a better dynamic text management in Flash
Time to publish the complete tutorial about the making of GuessNext, a simple card game with highscores. In order to make an highscore, you must register to Kongregate but you can play even if you don’t register. It’s not meant to be a good or enjoyable game, it’s simply a programming exercise, so don’t expect … GuessNext: complete Flash game with highscores
After a couple of days, the prototype for the management of a card deck is almost complete. Now I have a full game, you draw a card and have to say if the next card will be higher or lower. At the moment the prototype has all messages and a game over screen with the … Using BitmapData to manage a deck of cards – part 2
December 28th update: 2nd part online I have already published a tutorial about BitmapData in the post Shuffle an image with BitmapData, but this time I want to show you how to manage a deck of cards using BitmapData. Managing a deck of cards is very useful because there are tons of card games you … Using BitmapData to manage a deck of cards
One of the most interesting things about internet publishing is that you can receive feedback almost in real time. For this reason, it’s very important to read every comment and above all negative comments. When I released Tileball, I received some negative comments about the title screen. That’s right: I focused on the game and … Designing the structure of a Flash game
Ok, so you finished your game, you submitted it to NG and Kongregate and now you are about to submit it to another million of sites to give it a good exposure. The only problem is that most sites require a registration, some want a 60×60 gif thumbnail while others want a 100×100 png. Submitting … Some email addresses to send your games
Ok, so we have two games: Elasticity and Bloons. The first, is a game I talked about in Controlling a ball like in Flash Elasticity game tutorial, and I suggest you to read it, while the second is a game we all use to play here on planet Earth. Despite the psychedelic feeling I gave … When Elasticity meets Bloons
I published Tileball, the FIRST (and I want you to notice the capitalized “FIRST”) game made with my tile ball engine. I learned so much in the making of this game that once finished I wanted to delete it and start making it again. Then, I decided to release the game and practice all I … Tileball, the FIRST game made with my tile ball engine
