How many times did you find an option to save the game in Flash? How many times did you see a game that keeps track of your previously solved levels, like Nitrome’s Snow Drift? Today you’ll learn how to do it… and it’s very simple! We can do it with just a couple of instructions … Managing savegames with Flash shared objects
Time to publish the complete tutorial about the making of GuessNext, a simple card game with highscores. In order to make an highscore, you must register to Kongregate but you can play even if you don’t register. It’s not meant to be a good or enjoyable game, it’s simply a programming exercise, so don’t expect … GuessNext: complete Flash game with highscores
After a couple of days, the prototype for the management of a card deck is almost complete. Now I have a full game, you draw a card and have to say if the next card will be higher or lower. At the moment the prototype has all messages and a game over screen with the … Using BitmapData to manage a deck of cards – part 2
December 28th update: 2nd part online I have already published a tutorial about BitmapData in the post Shuffle an image with BitmapData, but this time I want to show you how to manage a deck of cards using BitmapData. Managing a deck of cards is very useful because there are tons of card games you … Using BitmapData to manage a deck of cards
Do you want to know how popular is your game compared to other MochiAds allowed games? Do you want to know how many game are hosted on MochiAds? Here it is the full answer: Bloons (play) Fifty Five – Paris (play) Thug (play) Ultrablock w/ Scores (play) Bloons Tower Defense 2 (play) Paris oh Paris … Most popular MochiAds games
One of the most interesting things about internet publishing is that you can receive feedback almost in real time. For this reason, it’s very important to read every comment and above all negative comments. When I released Tileball, I received some negative comments about the title screen. That’s right: I focused on the game and … Designing the structure of a Flash game
Ok, so we have two games: Elasticity and Bloons. The first, is a game I talked about in Controlling a ball like in Flash Elasticity game tutorial, and I suggest you to read it, while the second is a game we all use to play here on planet Earth. Despite the psychedelic feeling I gave … When Elasticity meets Bloons
I published Tileball, the FIRST (and I want you to notice the capitalized “FIRST”) game made with my tile ball engine. I learned so much in the making of this game that once finished I wanted to delete it and start making it again. Then, I decided to release the game and practice all I … Tileball, the FIRST game made with my tile ball engine
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
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
