When you compile a Flash project, you know you create a swf file. Such file is created according to the SWF File Format Specification so you can create your IDE and develop your Flash projects without using the official Adobe Flash CS4 package. Since you can compile your own swf file, there is also a … Flash Decompiler Trillix review
Welcome to the oldest Flash eye candy effect ever. I’ll show you how to create a magnifying effect, yes, the same old effect you see in the web since Actionscript was AS1, but this time is AS3 only and will give you some hints about Bitmap, BitmapData and DisplacementMapFilter classes. The photo in the example … Pure AS3 magnifying effect using Displacement Map Filter
One interesting statement that’s almost unexplained in the web is super(). Before explaining super()‘s features, let me talk about superclasses. From Wikipedia: In computer science, a superclass is a class from which other classes are derived. A superclass is also called a parent class’. The classes that are derived from a superclass are known as … Understanding AS3 super() statement
Everybody should know Box2D is the best engine you can use to make a platform game. Rick Triqui, my latest game, was made with PlayCrafter that uses Box2D, and I’m starting to code my own Box2D platform engine. Luis Fernando Silva, author of the upcoming Darkness game (Sponsors! Contact him to see the work in … Box2D platform engine alternative
Hi again, Michael Edlavitch here, ready to give away my secret to improving SEO placement for your games. Just do me a favor and visit my blog, Top Five Blog or Swag Games as your donation :) What is a Media RSS feed? Media RSS was originally created by Yahoo so that people could send … How to make a Media RSS feed to help your games compete for SEO
Here we are with the 3rd part… this time we’ll manage collision detection. I recommend to read step 1 and 2 before continuing. You should how to manage collisions with Box2D, and if not go and read Understanding how Box2D manages collisions, but this time we won’t use the collision handler. Since all collisions we … Basic Filler engine with Box2D – part 3
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
In this third part of the platform engine, it’s time to make our hero jump. First, I suggest you to read parts 1 and 2 if you already didn’t, then you should know something about the magic of compound objects and how Box2D manages collisions. Then, you’re ready to follow the tutorial :) The hero … Platform engine using Box2D – Step 3
If you have a touristic website about a city or a travel agency, it may be useful displaying the weather somewhere in the page. There are hundreds of free services solving the task, but none of them comes without watermark, is fully customizable and has a dedicated AS3 API like Yahoo’s one. Let’s see how … Embed Flash Yahoo Weather in your page with Yahoo APIs
This script is the same as How to use an embedded text file in Flash using the method described in Trie Data Structure in Actionscript 3 You can try it just replacing the main file in the source you can download at this page with the new one I am publishing now. Now I am … How to use an embedded text file in Flash – Trie edition
The opportunity to win up to $7000 with “Word Play” Flash Game Contest ends in 20 days, and I already showed you how to embed a text file in Flash. Now it’s time to make something useful out of it. In this script, you will learn something about dynamic text fields styling, input text fields … How to use an embedded text file in Flash
