Ok… so we are going to create Perfectionism game as said… the game has a lot of buttons, so to make things a little harder, I won’t use any button… just movieclips. Creation of the environment Perfectionism is played on a 8×8 field with eight buttons on its left side and eight buttons on its … Create a game like Perfectionism with Flash – Step 2
I found this game by Jason Roher and I found it very interesting. It’s a game about the trap of perfectionism Jason made for The Escapist magazine. Starting with 100 moves and zero points, you have to score as much as you can by shuffling rows and columns in order to match green squares with … Create a game like Perfectionism with Flash
One of the moust famous Flash games ever is Bloons. Please, don’t make me explain what I am talking about. Just play it. I really do not know why nobody tried to make a clone of such a simple game. Then I realized… that’s because I never published a prototype of this game. Now, it’s … Create a Flash game like Bloons tutorial
Do you know what is Renju? From Wikipedia: Renju or Lianzhu is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa in December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou. Lianzhu is a Chinese translation of Renju. It is played … Full Renju game with source code
Ok… I think it’s time to start talking about Actionscript 3. Even if AS2 is way to be dead, is becoming a bit obsolete… every new library like Box2DFlashAS3 only works in AS3, so sooner or later we must learn AS3. Obviously I won’t stop talking about AS2 until it’s dead and stinking… but this … Create a Flash ball game using AS3
To show you how hard I am going to try wiping the vaporware out of my life, I am publishing the 3rd part of the platform game tutorial. Read parts 1 and 2 if you don’t remember what I am talking about. In this update, I introduced two new tile types: the lava tile that … Creation of a platform game with Flash – step 3
Do you know what’s the so-called vaporware? From Wikipedia: Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. Interesting thing… they gave a name to most developers’ habit… starting a project and … Wipe the vaporware out of your life
One of the most popular Flash games is BoxHead by Sean Cooper, that released the 5th game of the series called The Zombie Wars. At the moment I am just giving a small prototype of the “hero” controlled with arrow keys and the “zombie” chasing the hero. One of the interesting things about BoxHead is … Make a Flash game like BoxHead – part 1
One of the biggest problems of step 3 was Bombuzal waled sooo slowly. So I added a variable called walk_speed where I assign the walking speed in pixels per frame. Then, in the original game you have to think fast. You can’t stay on the same tile for more than about 5 secods, or the … From zero to Bombuzal – step 4
Here it is another fresh Flash game prototype by FrozenHaddock, that jumps from the forum to the blog. FrozenHaddock was playing around with Flash as he says, when he come out with an interesting prototype. Something I was fiddling about with, might work well as a puzzle game of some sort. Some people might find … BallPusher: new Flash game prototype
In almost all “kill the enemy” games you can see a green energy bar turning orange and red as the foe get wounded by our fire. It’s time to show you how can you do this. In this example, I will start from the Flash prototype of a game like Balloon Invasion example but obviously … Displaying enemy’s energy bar in Flash games
Well, I don’t know if it’s really new or some of you already saw it elsewhere… but I’ve never seen this way to control the player It works this way: you move the mouse pointer. When you click the mouse, the player will move in the opposite direction of your mouse pointer. The closer the … A new player control concept
