When I am designing a web site or a web presentation, I always look for a nice way to show photos. No matter how many time you may spend on the design, nowadays if you don’t show your pictures in an effective way, your work will look cheap. The hand that will help you a … Create a Flash image gallery using photoFlow component
Time to do what you asked for a while: the 3rd part of the Security Flash game creation, covering the exit and some more features. First of all you should read parts 1 and 2, then follow me and learn to create some interesting things. Exits Most of you asked for exits, and here they … Create a flash game like Security – part 3
Some of you in this On the horizon post requested a Ragdoll tutorial, so I started reading and experimenting until I got something good. But it’s not easy nor intuitive. If you want to follow me in this jouney, open flash and prepare an huge amount of aspirin, you’re going to feel a real headache. … Creation of a Ragdoll with Flash part 1: Verlet integration
A really interesting “avoidance game” that was made in those days is String Avoider. The author of this “More than 1 million views” game in Newgrounds explains it in 12 words: “Avoid colliding with walls and guide your string through each unique level”. And that’s it. The aim of the game is guiding your string … Creation of a game like String Avoider tutorial
I always surf the web looking for great Flash games. One site where you can find good ones is Newgrounds. The #1 Daily Feature in 06/19/2007 was a simple game called Nodes. I suggest you to play it for a couple of minutes. The idea is very simple and the engine behind is very simple … Creation of the engine behind “Nodes” game with Flash
November 3rd update: part 2 released. Back from my holidays, here I come with a brand new tutorial serial. This time I will talk about platform games. “Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles. It must be possible to control these jumps … Creation of a platform game with Flash – step 1
This is the comment I received from amorphis some days ago about the creation of a flash ball game with visual from above. «Could you just pleaseeeeeee upload some of the new types of tiles you have coded in order to see how do you place them among the normal ones and how do you … I HAD to do it…
I am pleased to introduce you Icy Bubble II, a game made by Abhilash. It’s the sequel of Icy Bubble, and it has some new interesting features. Abhilash said: “hi! after more than two months my second game is ready ‘Icy Bubble II’. Its graphics are better than the previous one.I hope people will enjoy … Icy Bubble II released!
In all tutorials covered until now, we have always seen how to determine collisions between a single object and the rest of the objects in the stage, or part of them. No matter if it was performed using hit test or trigonometry, the point is that in every moment of the game we knew all … Managing multiple collision detection with Flash
Maybe some of you did not notice it, but there was a real pearl in a comment of Create a flash draw game blike Line Rider or others – A different approach – Part 2 post. Jesuson studied all the source codes and came up with this comment: —————- I have been testing it and … Create a flash draw game like Line Rider or others – A different approach – Part 3
August 3rd update: 2nd part released December 13th update: 3rd part released January 16th update: 4th part released This tutorial does not cover anything new (well, this first part of this tutorial) but shows you how to create a Flash ball game with a visual from above and some decent graphics. Being a ball game, … Create a Flash ball game with visual from above tutorial
Good news! Gravity is finished and released. Jon Dutko sent me an email writing: “It’s been a long time, man. But after months of procrastination, -Gravity- is done. I’ve submitted it to Newgrounds. At time of writing, it isn’t getting the best scores in the portal, but that’s all right. It’s an innovative bit of … Gravity released!
