January 16th update: 4th part released In the third part of this tutorial I am going to fix a minor bug and introduce three new tiles: info tile (displays a message when the ball rolls over it) reverse control tile (reverses the controls of the ball) checkpoint tile (makes you respawn at the checkpoint tile … Create a Flash ball game with visual from above tutorial part 3
During the last days I received a lot of prototypes from different readers. One I want to mention is something called “a new idea in AS2” by Shival Gupta That’s how he got in contact with me: Hi Emanuele. A few days before you published some info on Box2d library in AS3 and one of … Stack Flash game prototype
Today it’s the time to publish a demo/prototype of a 3D mouse-controlled cube sent by Andre Marianiello. It was made with code from the 3D tutorials on www.kirupa.com that I formatted into easy-to-use classes. Easy to make simple changes if that would be more agreeable to you. I will send source code if you want, … Flash 3D mouse-controlled cube
It’s always good to have what it’s called “case history” to proof what you’re doing is good. In my case, there is not better proof than a succesful game made starting from my tutorials. Last wednesday I got a “beer” from Kevin Leung with this message: I have been reading your blog for quite a … Laser and Bubbles: a sponsored game starting from my tutorial
My tribute (learn how I am calling a clone) to Split Personalities is growing fast and well, and after the first and second steps, now I have something playable. The aim of the game is to rebuild the image of a stolen painting(in this case the Scream) that was broken into pieces (I just want … Shuffle an image with BitmapData – Part 3
This is a prototype sent me by Rory Kamminga. It’s an unfinished game where you control a blue ball with arrow keys. Your aim is to kick a red ball out of the stage. Obviously the red ball will try to do the same with you. The interesting thing is that Rory took the studies … Flash ball vs ball game concept
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 The sixth part of the experiment comes with a milestone of Circle Chain game: it reached 200,000 MochiAds impressions. I stopped promoting the game three weeks ago and the game, launched on october 28th, still shows more than 3,000 impressions/day. I know … Experiment: monetizing a Flash game – Part 6
December 7th update: part 3 released This prototype somehow continues the Shuffle an image with BitmapData tutorial. But the real aim of this code is beginning to create a game like Split Personalities, a game released for the Spectrum in 1986 The game play revolves around assembling a number of pictures of famous people from … Shuffle an image with BitmapData – Part 2
The displacement map filter is a Flash built in feature that can add realism to some special effects. This is a standalone tutorial but it’s in some way connected with the Creation of realistic spheres in Flash with textures and masking tutorial Before we continute, let’s read what’s explaining Wikipedia about displacement mapping: “Displacement mapping … Understanding Flash displacement map filter
December 4th update: part 2 released December 7th update: part 3 released Today I played a bit with BitmapData because I have a concept for a future game. Look what I did: The only thing I have in my library is an image representing the Scream by Munch. This one: I linked it as “scream” … Shuffle an image with BitmapData
Behind the not-so-mnemonic Box2DFlashAS3 name, there is an open source port of Erin Catto’s powerful c++ physics library Box2D. What is Box2D? From the official website comes the explaination: “Box2D is a 2D rigid body simulator for games. You can use it in your game to make objects move in believable ways and make the … Box2DFlashAS3 – a library to watch
This is the last step of the prototype of a Flash game likePoux. Read steps 1, 2 and 3 before continuing. As said, I finished the game. I called it Christmas Couples Let’s see its features: * Fancy graphics * Improved scoring system * Cool sound loop * Highscores As you can see, graphics, sound … Christmas Couples: the finished Poux prototype
