Category: Game development
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The magic of compound objects with Box2D
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…
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Know your enemy: demographics of adult American gamers
« 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…
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Sudoku creator/solver with PHP
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…
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Perfect maze generation – tile based version – AS3
After publishing Perfect maze generation – tile based version written in Php, I got some emails asking for an AS3 version. Pedro Taranto made the AS3 porting in…
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Perfect maze generation – tile based version
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…
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Learn AS3 by following this simple avoider game tutorial
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…
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Perfect maze generation with AS3
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…
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Monetizing Flash games: analyzing failures
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…
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Platform engine variation with hangable tiles
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…
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AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 6: timing
In previous part we added some gameplay, now it’s time to add timing. I recommend you to read Understanding AS3 Timer Class. I used time for two reasons:…
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Dragging objects with Box2D Flash
This is ideally the next part after Understanding pixels and meters with Box2D and how to select an object with mouse – part 2, but it’s so important…
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Win $16,000 with Flash Game Walk of Fame Contest!
Are you ready for a big Flash game development contest? MochiAds and ArcadeTown are running the Flash Game Walk of Fame Contest with $16,000 in sponsorships to be…
