Did you read Creation of a game with flixel and Flash Builder 4? Now it’s time to add a splash screen to the game. The splash screen or the title screen is the first thing the player sees, so we’ll add a backround image as well as the game title. First, we must change our … Making a game with flixel and Flash Builder 4 – Splash Screen
If you want to make a good game, a good camera movement is necessary. This time we’ll learn to follow a Box2D object with the camera. Box2D does not have a “camera”, so we will have to move the stage according to body position. This is the same script as Real world catapult using Box2D … Following a body with the camera in Box2D
If you want to read an interesting article about Flash games and physics, I suggest you to point your browser on Developing physics-based games with Adobe Flash Professional by Samuel Asher Rivello. I was quoted in the article, but what makes it really great is the way it will guide you through the creation of … Quoted on Adobe Edge: April 2010 edition
I am used to see Flash educational games, but I don’t remember any Flash game based on religion. And I don’t mean something like “you are God and must obliterate a village”, but a game entirely based on the Bible. Now Gabriel Walter talks about Verse Vessel « The working demo of Verse Vessel is … Flash games and religion
You should already know flixel. I blogged a bit about it some time ago in flixel for absolute beginners and flixel for absolute beginners – part 2. Now it’s time to make something serious, but in this first step I am covering again the basics of creation of a flixel game using Flash Builder 4. … Creation of a game with flixel and Flash Builder 4
While Flash remains the best software to develop casual web games, jQuery allows you to make interesting things… nothing to do with pure action Flash games, but in some cases you can get interesting results out of your browser. Here it is a list with 17 jQuery powered games, most of them with clean and … 17 jQuery powered web games with source code
After reading Do players play all levels of your Flash game? post, Tarwin Stroh-Spijer from TouchMyPixel tells us the experience with his games and an overall about players keeping playing the games. « Some great stats, thanks. I’ve been looking at this myself for the Scarygirl game, where we had an even sharper drop off. … Do players play all levels of your Flash game? Tarwin’s experience
When I design levels for my games, I try to make them funny and challenging. I always think how much will players enjoy my levels. I guess you do the same. But I have a question… Do players play all levels? Is it worth the pain of testing and finetuning the n-th level when the … Do players play all levels of your Flash game?
Ok, it’s not an april fool… the bulgarian freelancer Krasimir Tsonev really made a Box2D based RPG game called The Big Adventure. And he also built the official game site with all features it needs to attract players: a community, a forum, a ladder, updated news… really a good job. Now he wants to share … Case study: The Big Adventure – a Box2D RPG
Do you remember the LineBall video teaser? Now the complete game has been published and sponsored by Coolbuddy.com. It’s based on the Flash AS3 Pixel based circle collision engine, that I found better than Collision Detection Kit when you want your ball to bounce. I added a little twist introducing a gravity switch allowing you … LineBall Flash game sponsored and released
I am porting this prototype into AS3. I am not doing it for the sake of porting something, but because I want to show you a complete Dice Wars prototype. I am sorry if the code is not that clean, I’ll come with a dedicated class later, but at the moment this is what I … Finding adjacent cells in an hex map – AS3 Version
Today I am porting an old tutorial, Controlling a ball like in Flash Elasticity game tutorial, into AS3. I am doing this because it was a great game in my opinion, and one of the “non Box2D powered” games that can live a second life now that Box2D has been released. About all the theory … Flash Elasticity prototype – AS3 version
