Welcome to the 5th step. Let’s make a small recap: Step 1: Creation of the application itself Step 2: Publishing a text on the user’s status Step 3: Publishing text, links and images on the user’s wall Step 4: Inviting friends to use the application Now it’s time to make the application post a notification … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 5
Like some of you noticed during these days, my blog was hacked. Someone injected an encoded javascript code into my footer.php theme making my site open an iframe with some badware. The same old things that happen when you’re famous :) The boring part of this story is now I check for my WP files … WordPress plugin prototype to check the date and time that wp files have been last modified
The best way to do some viral marketing through Facebook is using inite forms to allow users to share applications with their friends who might not have otherwise known about them. Since users are invited to use applications by friends, they are (at the moment) likely to view each invite request, providing them an opportunity … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – Step 4
It’s time to create a rope with Box2d. To start defining a rope, we’ll start from something similar: a chain. A chain is a series of two or more connected links. The smaller and closer the links, the more flexible the chain. So we can define a rope as a “perfect chain”, with infinite links. … Basic Box2D rope
What happens on Saturday, October 31st? It’s Halloween. I bet there is a lot of games under development with an Halloween theme. I am developing my own Halloween game too, but it’s not the point of this post. I noticed in some (most) Halloween games there is quite a large use of this set of … Halloween and the tropical storm Ketsana
In Box2D, normally every object collides with other objects in the stage. But sometimes we may need a way to make an object collide with only certain objects, ignoring the rest. I am not talking about sensors, but real objects that won’t collide with certain other objects. This feature can be done with filtering. Collision … Introducing Box2D filtering
In step 1 we created a simple Facebook application, and in step 2 we made our application able to write on the wall Now it’s time to add images and more text to users’ wall when they run the application. This is what I am creating: I know I wrote “appliction”… but it was a … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 3
In most Box2D projects you can see how to render bodies or attach objects to them, but I couldn’t see any tutorial about rendering joints. If you look at the classic rendering loop it’s something like this one for (var bb:b2Body = m_world.m_bodyList; bb; bb = bb.m_next) { if (bb.m_userData is Sprite) { bb.m_userData.x = … Rendering joints with Box2D
In a comment to Pumpkin Story prototype, a reader asked for a function to simulate a hook. This can be quite easily done in some steps. This first step will set a rule: you can only hook to a static body. Obviously it’s not a mandatory, rule, but just a gameplay one. In this example, … Simulating a hook with Box2D
This quick Pumpkin Story prototype is made merging and mixing these scripts: Drawing arcs with AS3 and Creation of a Flash artillery game using Box2D. If you notice, it’s similar to an artillery game (like Bloons) with the “only” difference you are the bullet. This opens some interesting gameplay options, so interesting I am going … Pumpkin Story prototype
Ugly title for a post, really… but I did not find any function to convert the result of a MySQL query directly into JSON notation, so I made my own function. I really needed it today, so I am sharing it with you. It’s not a everyday use function, but I am sure some of … MySQL to JSON with PHP
