You all may know the casual game called Gem Sweeper, an evolution of the famous Minesweeper game included with early Windows distributions. If you don’t know the game already, play a bit for free with the trial version to know what I am going to reproduce with this simple Flash prototype. The mechanics of the … Prototype of a game like Gem Sweeper with Flash
In this time full of Flash game design competitions I know every hint could lead you to make a better game and have one more change to grab some bucks just doing what you like to to. Where to find good Flash game tutorials? Even if I submit my tuts to all biggest tutorial directories, … The best Flash game creation tutorial sites
The famous Flash games site Armor Games is hosting a Flash game design competition (fairy more than one to be honest) that will end at the end of this year. And they are paying good cash prizes to the winners! Let’s examine all the competitions: Armor Gaming Challenge #6: create the ultimate Flash game, no … Armor Gaming Challenge #6
Due to the upcoming deadline of the Flash Game Design Competition with “Ball Phyiscs” theme, here it is another ball physics tutorial. I was looking for some good ball physics concepts and I stumbled upon Elasticity, a nice game with an interesting way to controll the ball. Why don’t we try to control a ball … Controlling a ball like in Flash Elasticity game tutorial
It’s time to introduce another feature involved in Ragdoll creation. In part 1 you saw Verlet integration, now it’s time to see what is a constraint. In mathematics, a constraint is a condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy. So basically a constraint is a condition that must be respected. In our … Creation of a Ragdoll with Flash part 2: Constraints
Particle effects are one of the most difficult effects to achieve in Flash. Try to imagine a realistic candle flame, or a realistic explosion, or a realistic smoke. Keyword: realistic. Even if you should manage to create such effects, I bet you would spend a lot of time. A company called Desuade comes in our … Create amazing particle effects in Flash with Partigen component
This is another headache post. I am sorry, but since there is a ball physics competition, I have to focus tutorials on ball physics. This tutorial covers collisions between balls, and it works with any number of balls, and it’s based on Raman Pfaff’s Physics of an Elastic Collision. What is an “elastic collision”? From … Managing ball vs ball collision with Flash
Only 2 days. That’s how much time Kevin Ward needed to solve and publish the solution of the problem posted in Throw a ball with a sling physics Flash tutorial. You may know Kevin for his excellent post about a different approach to create a game like Line Rider, and now he come with the … Throw a ball with a sling physics Flash tutorial: Part 2 by Kevin Ward
August 16th update: 2nd part released by Kevin Ward Here it comes the first tutorial about some strange ways to use ball physics in a game, as said in the rules of Jay is Games competition. We have to create something original and physics related at the same time. We’ll learn how to throw a … Throw a ball with a sling physics Flash tutorial
The popular flash games reviews blog, Jay is Games, is hosting a Flash game design competition. JiG often hosts competitions, but this one has a very interesting theme for us: ball physics. How many ball tutorials did you read on this site? Maybe it’s time to code something interesting and submit to JiG before October, … Flash game design competition at Jay is Games!
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December 13th update: 3rd part released January 16th update: 4th part released This is the second part of the tutorial about the creation of a Flash ball game with visual from above. I suggest you to read part 1 before reading this post. Here I will start adding features to our game as said in … Create a Flash ball game with visual from above tutorial part 2
