If you have ever tried to draw arcs with AS3 (or AS2), you probably smashed your computer on the floor after spending hours with curveTo(). That’s not what we need when we want to draw simple arcs, without any Bezier curve. That’s why I made my own function. It’s not that interesting since it only … Drawing arcs with AS3
With more than 300 million active users and 50% of them using it every day (source), Facebook can be an interesting way to make some viral marketing. One of the most effective ways is developing an application users (and users friends – and friends of users friends – and…) will use every day. This tutorial … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners
Almost a year ago I blogged about a basic level editor for a tile based game, and now Philipp Zins from Germany show us his AS3 level editor- I made the level editor in ActionScript 3. You can scroll through the tiles with the mouse wheel – it isn’t necessary now, but very helpful if … AS3 level editor
In the late 90’s most personal and some commercial websites used to place a big, animated, irritating image like this one: This picture, placed in a webpage browsed at a 800×600 resolution (the most popular one during those years), fills half of the visible area. This means the page was shouting “hey, I am incomplete, … The return of “Under Construction” – evolution of a malpractice
This tutorial won’t cover basic Color Swatches information… I suggest you to follow Photoshop’s help if you don’t know what I am talking about. The interesting value of the Swatches palette is the ability to load custom swatch collections, so you can quickly access to specific colors without having to remember any numeric color values. … Understanding and creating on the fly Photoshop Color Swatches with php
The final deadline for “Word Play” Flash Game Contest ran by MochiMedia is September 18 and if you did not submit any entry, here it is a prototype you can use to make something better out of it. The concept is based upon How to use an embedded text file in Flash and some concepts … Word Play contest prototype, four days to make something decent out of it
Ever wondered the point in calculating color distance at Color difference algorithm and Color difference algorithm – part 2? The answer is pic2col… just another picture to color scheme converter… as well as this is just another WordPress blog… but it’s MY picture to color scheme converter… this means I am going to make pic2col … pic2col – extract color schemes from a picture
Riot Games is an independent Los Angeles-based game developer and publisher active since 2006. At the moment the guys at Riot Games are developing League of Legends, a competitive online game that combines elements from both strategy and role playing games. Unfortunately at the moment the beta seems to be closed, but I’m trying to … Riot Games raises $8 Million in financing
This is the second part of Creation of a Flash artillery game using Box2D… one reader asked for a function to make blocks (bullets) disappear after 10 seconds or any given time. I found the question interesting, and here I am writing something about removing bullets. To introduce timed bullets, I only need another class … Creation of a Flash artillery game using Box2D – part 2: removing bullets
Small intro: having a plugin that allows readers to vote posts can help you understanding what do readers like. I saw readers liked a lot Create a flash artillery game – step 1 so I decided to create something similar with modern techniques (that post is dated 2007!!! Ages ago!!). Let’s start from Platform engine … Creation of a Flash artillery game using Box2D
In flixel for absolute beginners I showed you how to complile a flixel project with Flex Builder 3. I was ready to make an “hello world” but I received some emails from people asking for a FlashDevelop step by step installation. It seems FlashDevelop is more popular than FlexBuilder 3… anyway here it is: First, … flixel for absolute beginners – part 2
