This is a month full of rich contests. Today we’ll talk about XPOGames and its $18,000 cash and prizes contest The chief of Management and PR wants to explain you all what’s hot at XPOGames: XPOGames.com / Management and PR We have issued an official Media Alert (or Press Release) last week which includes all … XPOGames developer contest: $18,000 in prizes
The first post of the new year (you should know the new year starts on May, 27th) is made by Sunil Changrani and it’s about managing multiple balls collisions with Flash. I already published a tutorial about Managing ball vs ball collision with Flash but this time we’ll manage any number of balls. Sunil was … Managing multiple balls collisions with Flash
This post is written by Chris Benjaminsen from Nonoba.com. Nonoba is a gaming community where you can play games with your friends. What I personally like about Nonoba is they allow you to create your own achievements. See my Bees n’ Flowers page to see what I mean. This is Chris Benjaminsen: I have been … Nonoba Flash Multiplayer API contest: $20,000 in prizes
If you are looking for a new way to monetize your Flash games, then you should take a look to GameJacket, an online game advertising service actually in beta. According to the faq, to start earning money you upload the game source files (.swf) through the GameJacket Developer Console and output your custom ‘GameJacket’. Each … Monetize your Flash game with GameJacket
Now that you know how to communicate between two Flash movies thanks to the Creation of a Flash highscores API tutorial, it’s time to introduce the next step that will make you save your highest score on your computer. It’s not an hard prototype once you read Create an Eskiv Flash game tutorial (in order … Creation of a Flash highscores API – Step 2
I am about to complete my second one-week game. It’s not a “play until the game is over” like BallBalance or Christmas Couples, but has various levels like Circle Chain. And “levels” means level design. One of the hardest things to do in order to make a succesful game. You can have the best game … Turn wasted time into level design
More and more game portals are developing their own Flash API to manage high scores. Having high scores means giving players the opportunity to compete for a leaderboard, making them play your game more and more. And making you earn more and more. I am showing you how to make one. I’ll use LocalConnection, like, … Creation of a Flash highscores API
Today I played the millionth mouse avoider Flash game… Shirk! I am a real pro at mouse avoider games… look how easily I beat the hard level. Watch the video! What a champion… This happens because you can right click the mouse, showing the menu. As far as I know, you can’t prevent the menu … Preventing the right mouse cheat in your Flash games
Today I received some interesting news from Gaz, the brain behind The Game Homepage. He developed an API for his brand new Compete section and hw is looking for good games to use it. He is offering $50 for every game that will include the API, and he does not mind you leaving any sponsorship … Earn $50 including The Game Homepage API in your Flash game
Do we really need another “move a ball in some way from A to B avoiding C” game? Noooooooo… but it seems two or three people still like this kind of games, so the new torture branded Game Garage is Floaty Light. Just kidding, of course. I made this prototype using the gravity and speed … Prototype of a Flash game like Floaty Light
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 This is a big update of the experiment, because lots of interesting things happened since the last one. Let’s start: Goals and targets Obviously every experiment has its goals. I have two different types of goals: hourly income and games played. The … Experiment: monetizing a Flash game – Part 9
