Some days ago I received a message from MaxManning about Summer Couples, and I want you to read it: « Hey, first I love your new game Summer Couples, it’s wasted far more of my time than I should have allowed it to. That’s the sign of a good game! Anyways, I was playing it … Timer based Vs frame based
Today I am going to introduce you a service that will allow players to design their own levels of your game. I am talking about BonusLevel The concept of the site it to provide an API that allows players create and share their own levels. This may be helpful when you are great at programming … Let players design their own levels with BonusLevel
Sometimes I play and mess with code to get some interesting game prototypes. Although I am not satisfied about this one, I want to share it with you anyway. You have to draw a lasso with the mouse trying to catch the ball inside the shape you will create. In this case you’ll win. If … Game prototype involving shape drawing and a ball
In the 1st step we created the units and the engine to select them. Now it’s time to write the code to let selected unit(s) send troops to other unit. I created a new frame for the sphere object, a green circle, representing the target unit. Let’s make a recap: Frame 1: black circle, unselected … Create a Flash Game like Nano War – step 2
Some days ago I played a bit Nano War. It’s an interesting RTS, and pretty easy to delvelop. In this part we’ll analyze the unit selection system. In Nano War your units are circles, and this helps a lot because it’s very easy to determine collisions knowing radius and center. Anyway, you can select units … Create a Flash Game like Nano War
Let me introduce you an interesting opportunity to improve the look and feel of your games and win cash prizes: MeezInside Avatar Games Contest hosted by Meez and FlashGameLicense. You should already know FGL for its marketplace and First Impressions services. Meez is a social entertainment site where can create animated 3D avatars, dress up … Create 3D avatars and win over $20,000 with Meez and FlashGameLicense
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In this 3rd part we are going to create a complete game with exit and two levels. Read parts 1 and 2 if you haven’t done it already. I’ll also fix a bug reported by Questo: I was playing around and if you right click while making a … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 3
My 10th released game is my 9th produced one. If you wonder why Summer Couples was made a month after the game I am going to introduce now, it’s because looking for a sponsorship can take some time. More than a month in this case. Once I uploaded the game on FlashGameLicense I received some … RRODE: the second one-week game
I know a spanish proverb saying “La mejor verdad se dice jugando” that sounds like “Tell the shocking truth when you’re kidding”. That’s what Mr. Sun at the Helion Code said about 50 Ways to Make us HATE your Flash Game. He is telling the shocking truth in a friendly way… but these are 50 … 50 ways to make us HATE your Flash game
An interesting game released these days is Totem Destroyer Your mission is to destroy the totems without letting the golden Idol (aka Tot) fall into the ground. It’s a game that can be easily done with the AS3 physics engine Box2DFlashAS3, recently updated at version 2.0.1 I already talked about it in the post Playing … Create a Flash game like Totem Destroyer
Now it’s time to make bricks disappear if they group in a 2×2 square. Read part 1 and 2 if you did not already. It’s not difficult to check if bricks form a 2×2 square… and it’s not difficult to remove them from the stage. The tricky part is making bricks fill the empty spaces … Make a game like Lumines with Flash – part 3
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In the 1st part I showed you how to make a deflection engine starting from an old tutorial, now it’s time to let the player draw walls. The idea comes from Srdjan Susnic, a reader who runs the blog Ask For Game Task. The main task Srdjan accomplished … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 2
