Box2D is a great library because you don’t have to care for collisions, the library manages all by itself. But sometimes, specially in games, you may need to know when the player hits the coin, or the enemy, or whatever. Box2D has a class called b2ContactListener that you have to rewrite to make it work … Understanding how Box2D manages collisions
Abot a year ago I published Designing the structure of a Flash game with everything you needed to know to design the structure of a game. Now it’s time to make the same thing with AS3, using classes. With classes the whole thing seems less intuitive, but once mastered the base concept, you will use … Designing the structure of a Flash game – AS3 version
You can call it complex shapes, compound shapes, complex objects, compound objects or even poisoned underpants, but you all want to create complex “things” with Box2D. Despite the “complex” word, it’s very easy to create one. You just have to add multiple shapes to a body. If you followed my latest Box2D tutorials, you will … The magic of compound objects with Box2D
« Over half of American adults play video games, and four out of five young adults play. Among adults, computers are the most popular gaming device, but among young adults gaming consoles are preferred. Virtual worlds only draw a small crowd. » Obviously american adults are not my enemies, but knowing their habits will help … Know your enemy: demographics of adult American gamers
This is an old project for a class held in 2005. At that time, Sodoku game was very popular in Italy, and I saw quite a lot of Flash games based upon it. If you don’t know what is a Sudoku, Wikipedia says is a logic-based number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 … Sudoku creator/solver with PHP
You may wonder why I am publishing another maze script. The reason is simple: in Perfect maze generation with AS3 post and previous ones I just showed you how to make a perfect maze, but it’s not the kind of maze you can use in tile based or roguelike games. Why not? Because walls aren’t … Perfect maze generation – tile based version
The blogsphere is magic. When you start a blog, if you do a good job, some people inspired by you will start blogging, and probably inspire you. This is the case of Michael Williams, who said I was one of the main reasons he decided to make a blog about Flash game development. He wrote … Learn AS3 by following this simple avoider game tutorial
I already talked about perfect mazes a couple of years ago with Step by step perfect maze generation with php and Perfect maze generation with Flash actionscript, but now it’s time to make it with AS3 and understand how can we use a perfect maze. Think about a perfect maze as a maze with no … Perfect maze generation with AS3
The web is full of successful stories about monetizing Flash games… you will find some of them in Casual Games, Hard Money or you can read about my results at The experiment – one year later. Today I am writing about the other side of the coin… when you fail at monetizing Flash games. You … Monetizing Flash games: analyzing failures
This is another version of my platform engine made by Bryan Devlin introducing some graphics, a visual death and hangable roofs. Bryan spread out the code to follow and understand it a bit better. This is what you’ll get: Notice the hangable tiles, that’s the major improvement. You can download source code here. Also, Bryan … Platform engine variation with hangable tiles
