All big game industries use game editors to design the levels of their games. Just think about games like Unreal Tournament 3… its maps are designed with a level editor. It would be impossible to design such accurate maps just inserting array values or XML tags or whatsoever. We aren’t creating games like UT3, but … Flash game level editor
Do you know a game called Biggification? It’s the perfect example of an one-day game that made a great success, scoring a 3.78 on Newgrounds and being reviewed by 151 people with an average score of 8.3 The aim of the game is very simple, as shoud be any one-day game: collect expanding orbs by … Prototype of a Flash game like Biggification
As you should know, MochiAds is not only the largest ad network for Flash games, but it also provides additional – and free – services to its users. One interesting feature is highscores management. In the MochiAd.as file you must include in your game in order to show ads, there are two functions, without any … How to embed MochiAds highscores in your game
Today is a very important day. For three reasons. First: For the first time (as far as I know) a coder that published a complete game with MochiAds released the full source code of its game. Second: It’s a damn good and complete game with loading, splash, gameplay, game over, and highscore table. Third: I … Complete Flash pool game with highscores
Jay is Games is hosting his 5th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, sponsored by Gimme5games, Mochi Media and Adobe. Gimme5Games may seem the million-th games portal in the net, but it’s owned by Eidos (Tomb Rider guys), while Mochi Media is the company behind MochiAds and MochiBot. Adobe is… well… Adobe. To enter, you have to … Win $3,500 with the Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5
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
