Do you know what is a script engine? Basically it’s an engine working with the main game engine allowing to create pre-defined series of events that occurs when triggered by player location or actions. One of the first games using this technique to increase realism was Half Life, in 1998 Scripted events and a robust … governor: multithreading script engine written in AS3
I think one of the most important things making the difference between a programmer and a PROgrammer is the ability to write code you can’t use again and again. Building reusable code speeds up projects and does not need that much test, since you already know what to expect from your snippets. This is the … AS3 quick movieclip manager class
After reading Do players play all levels of your Flash game? post, Tarwin Stroh-Spijer from TouchMyPixel tells us the experience with his games and an overall about players keeping playing the games. « Some great stats, thanks. I’ve been looking at this myself for the Scarygirl game, where we had an even sharper drop off. … Do players play all levels of your Flash game? Tarwin’s experience
Hello folks. As you should know (no, there is no reason why you should know it…) I am preparing for a trip to Cuba. I will be able to connect only from some hotels, and even if this does not represent a problem, I would feel safer if I had some posts ready to go … Looking for case studies
Ok, it’s not an april fool… the bulgarian freelancer Krasimir Tsonev really made a Box2D based RPG game called The Big Adventure. And he also built the official game site with all features it needs to attract players: a community, a forum, a ladder, updated news… really a good job. Now he wants to share … Case study: The Big Adventure – a Box2D RPG
Do you remember Emanuele Ornella from Mind the Move? It’s the guy behind the Come2Play multiplayer API tutorial posted about a month ago. Now he is explaining us a new way to monetize Flash games: GamesChart « When I first saw the announcement on Flash Game Developers group on www.linkedIn.com about the GamesChart beta program … Monetize your Flash games with GamesChart
After seeing the Lineball video teaser I got some email asking me how did I make the hollow circle with Box2D, and how to get a smooth drawing using box primitives. Well, I have to say I didn’t use Box2d, but another library called Collision Detection Kit. I’ll publish some tutorial about it once I’ll … Flash AS3 Pixel based circle collision engine
Yesterday I bought a MacBook on the Apple Store using some of the income generated by this blog. Do you know why I could do this? Because I am a geek, and because I live in Italy. If I lived in Venezuela, things could have been quite different. This is the story of John Freddy … Being a geek in Venezuela
You certainly know what happened in Haiti some days ago. On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck and almost destroyed the capital and all nearby cities. The whole world is moving to support disaster relief, and I want you to know MochiMedia will be participating in the Haiti relief fund initiative that has started … Mochi Media Haiti Relief Fund
Do you remember Filippo Bodei‘s HiRoads case study? After two months with HiRoads in the wild, Filippo shares with us the result of his project. « Here we are again after about two monts since HiRoads went live! Today, the 21st of January, I can count 1203 registered users and 250 roads published on www.hiroads.com … HiRoads case study: the aftermath
Do you remember Luis Fernando Silva? He released a Box2D platform engine some months ago, and now I am publishing his last work, a Verlet physics engine. If you need more information about Verlet integration, check this post. This is what Luis says: « So, I was developing a small physics engine for a game … Flave, a new open source AS3 Verlet physics engine
Today I want to introduce you a Come2Play multiplayer API tutorial written by Emanuele Ornella from Mind the Move. Emanuele is a Flash game developer and a board game designer too. « After the development of my first two games Tokyo Train and Haunted house I am interested in development of a multiplayer game. For … Come2Play multiplayer API tutorial
