My first Flash game tutorial ever was Flash game creation tutorial – part 1. It was the first of a series to create a game like jmtb‘s ball games. It was an old AS2 series, and some steps have been ported in AS3 with Create a Flash ball game using AS3. The “ball” game is … Box2D Flash game creation tutorial – part 1
No matter if you are a Flash game developer, a web designer, a video editor, a programmer or whatever… the more your work on your computer, the more files you will generate. After a while, your hard disk will become a nasty place full of shattered project if you don’t follow some simple rules. That’s … Saving and storing your work
In Box2d, bodies aren’t only affected by gravity and collisions, but you can also apply forces to them. Knowing the right force to apply is very important when you want to control a body, as you may want to do in a Flash game Let’s see the forces you can apply: Applying a force public … Understanding Box2D applicable forces
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
This is a quick video teaser of my upcoming game (probably) called Lineball. It’s a draw game, a classic in which you must draw a line to make a ball reach the goal, but with some twists, such as the ability to control ball’s speed with arrow keys, red zones that will kill your ball … Lineball video teaser
I bet you all downloaded Firefox 3.6. One of the new features is Personas, which allows you to instantly change the look of your Firefox with thousands of easy-to-install themes. There are thousands of Personas to choose from, with more added every day, because users can upload their own, in a growing library with more … Promote your brand with Firefox 3.6 Personas
Do you remember Partigen? Andrew Fitzgerald from Desuade released the new version, of his amazing particle effects engine: Partigen 2. Featuring over 120 exclusive preset effects, Partigen 2 is the first and only extension for Flash that let’s you to create complex particle effects in just a click. The list of features is huge, so … Create incredible particle effects with Partigen 2
PixelBlitz Engine is an old game framework for Actionscript3 created by Richard Davey from Photon Storm. As said, it’s not that new, there isn’t any documentation or tutorial or even a feature list. So, you may wonder why should I write about it, considering it’s a bitmap-based framework just like Flixel, which has a better … PixelBlitz AS3 game framework
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
About a year ago I published a Box2D tutorial for the absolute beginners. With 2.1 release, a lot of things changed, so it’s time to publish another tutorial for the absolute beginners. In this tutorial we’ll cover needed libraries to import, world creation, debug draw and the creation of static and dynamic boxes and circles. … Box2D tutorial for the absolute beginners – revamped
Three really funny and amazing games this week: Go to Hell!: Dig through 666 meters to reach hell and find out its secret. You have to dig all the way down through caves filled with water, lava, boulders and enemies. You’ll need to eat, breathe and avoid or kill monster to survive. What I liked: … Triqui’s Picks #16
You should know some hours ago Apple unveiled its new jewel, called iPad. Besides the innovation and the cool features, the most interesting thing is the iPad compatibility with all existing iPhone applications and obviously the SDK to create dedicated applications, at the full 1024×768 resolution. With the same iPhone Developer Program account you will … Are you ready for this?
