One of the most critical and strategic decision when you decide to monetize a website with ads, is where to place the ads. In a Flash arcade site this is an even more critical decision, because unlike normal sites or blogs where visitors read the entire page, scrolling and looking almost everywhere, in Flash arcade … How big Flash games Portals place ads near their games
It started about a year ago with The Big List of Sponsors by Freelance Flash Games, and now Michael Edlavitch, the author of Creating a successful niche Flash arcade site updated the list on his new blog, Top Five Blog, that will also give you tips and tricks he have learned in the casual game … Flash game sponsors list
Yesterday I blogged about the World Play Flash Game Contest, and the word list provided by Dictionary.com. Suddenly a reader said this word list is not that useful because contains words like “german nazi”, “motherfucker”, and so on. I’ve just killed a zombie in Resident Evil 5 swearing at his mother, but both me and … Eight word lists to help you creating the perfect word game
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Many early roguelikes featured ASCII graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environmental features. Computer roguelikes usually employ the majority of the keyboard to facilitate interaction with items and the environment. The … Understanding roguelike dungeons
I want to introduce you to a 3D Physics engine for AS3. Unlike engines like Box2D and the other ones listed in Flash physics engines galore, this engine adds the third dimension. JiglibFlash is a open source Actionscript 3D Physics Engine. It’s ported by muzerly from the c++ open source physics engine jiglib and uses … JiglibFlash 3D Physics engine for AS3
« Do you require funding for a business idea? Share with me your story and business proposal and be considered for micro funding in the form of a grant or a goodwill loan – basically you pay back what you can. If I like your idea you will receive between USD $500 to $3,000. » … (try to) Get funds for your project with My Micro Fund
How many times did you draw a “not so good-looking” character in your game just because you aren’t that good at drawing and you did not now where to find the graphic you needed? And how many times did you draw something interesting for your game, just to discover you changed something in the gameplay … Buy and sell arts for Flash Games with FlashGameArt.com
In the last times we saw an interesting diffusion of mobile handsets in the market, just think about the iPhone alone sold 4 million units in 200 days. That’s why a lot of big sites such as Google and Facebook feature a mobile version. What about a your blog? MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that … Optimize your blog on mobile handsets with MobilePress
During late 90’s web games as we know them did not exist. At that time Javascript was the only language used to make some simple browser games. Years passed, and Flash became the leading tool to make Flash games. Anyway, I want to point you to two javascript libraries made for game developers. While you … GameJS and gameQuery: two javascript libraries for game developers
There are thousands of posts around the web about free Photoshop alternatives. Let me start from another point of view. There isn’t any free alternative to Photoshop. As far as I know, there isn’t any alternative at all to Photoshop. But if you aren’t going to use all Photoshop features or you are somewhere around … When you are looking for a free software like Photoshop
Normally I don’t like that much blog posts with a ton of links, but this time I got the permission from Kelly Sonora from Learn-gasm to publish Jessica Merrit‘s article about 70+ Open Courseware Links for Game Designers and Developers. Whether you work in game development or design, or you just aspire to, there are … 70+ Open Courseware Links for Game Designers and Developers
If you played Splitter in these days, you probably enjoyed the gameplay thanks to the knife cutting and slicing various objects in the game Obviously you can made your own splitter game with BOX2D, and the “only” problem seems to be the knife. Well, in the BOX2D official forum there is a thread where a … The engine behind Splitter Flash game
