Category: Game development
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New tile based platform engine – part 6 – ladders
It’s time to introduce ladders. Ladders are quite hard to do for one reason: there is a lot of ways of intending ladders. Can the player jump when…
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New tile based platform engine – part 5 – clouds
You asked for the clouds, and here they are. Clouds are marked with a 5 in level array. Next stop… ladders…
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New tile based platform engine – theory behind the player
This post will explain the theory behind the player of my tile based plaftorm engine, and answer to some questions readers made commenting steps 1 to 4 First,…
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New tile based platform engine – part 4
For all jumping fanatics out there, I developed the jumping routine. You can jump hitting SPACE, hope you like it. From next post, I’ll start explaining how I…
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New tile based platform engine – part 3
In this 3rd step I introduced the gravity. Now the hero starts on the top of the screen and he can walk “downhill” thanks to gravity. During next…
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New tile based platform engine – part 2
In the second part of the engine, I added boundary walls. Still raw code at the moment, but you can see it in action here. It’s the same…
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New tile based platform engine – part 1
I am about to develop a tile based platform engine that (in my opinion) will allow to create a lot of different games just changing some parameters. At…
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Create a Flash game like PixelField – part 3
This is the 3rd step of the creation of this awesome game. In this step, I created a full playable game with 3 levels. Level generation is made…
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Seattle Casual Connect breakdown
Living in Italy is fantastic, but this also means I’ll probably miss every interesting IT conference. Anyway, thanks to Michael Sorrenti from Flash Magazine I can enjoy a…
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Create a Flash game like PixelField – part 2
Here we are with the second part of Create a Flash game like PixelField. In this step we’ll see how to draw a level. The game is obviously…
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Mouse avoider/Biggification remix prototype
Just a quick uncommented prototype involving growing (and moving) spheres and a sphere you control with the mouse. Click the mouse to change color, if you touch a…
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Create a Flash game like Snowflakes – AS3 version
As announced in Create a Flash game like Snowflakes, here it is the AS3 version. I used the same comments to help you understanding the conversion. package {…
