This is my personal adaptation of keynote presented at Casuality Europe by Jason Kapalka, co-founder and chief creative officer at PopCap Games during Casuality Amsterdam, on February 8, 2006. Yes, a bit old, and not exclusively Flash-oriented, but these rules did not change during the last three years, so… here they are: 1) Make it … 10 Ways to make a bad casual game
Today MochiMedia, the company that launched MochiAds and other awesome tools to monetize, distribute and track games, redesigned the site. Now all features are accessible from the home page, and some of them changed their name, such as MochiAds now called Ads API, Mochibot (Analytics API), Version Control and Encryption (Live Updates) and Leaderboards (Scores … MochiMedia redesigns the site and launches Mochi Coins
Some time ago I published Basic Filler engine with Box2D – part 1, now it’s time to see the next step. I am going to add enemies, the evil bouncing balls. Obviously, enemies aren’t affected by gravity, and this can be made following the instructions published at Managing multiple gravities with Box2D. The next, big, … Basic Filler engine with Box2D – part 2
One of the apparently hardest things to do with Box2D is assigning different gravity forces to different objects. For instance, you may want the world to be ruled with regular gravity, while you don’t want the bullet fired by your character to be affected, or you may want regular gravity for all boxes and inverted … Managing multiple gravities with Box2D
Now that you have a WordPress theme and plugin in order to set uo your own MochiAds arcade site like triqui.com, let’s see how we can add some interesting features with the Publisher Bridge. Every step explained in this tutorial will be included in the next upgrade of Triqui MochiAds Arcade theme, but it’s very … Understanding MochiAds Publisher Bridge
After publishing Platform engine using Box2D, my attempt to replicate the Rick Triqui‘s main character continues. Now you can move the guy with left and right arrows, aim the bazooka with the mouse and shoot a bullet clicking on the mouse. The bazooka isn’t a Box2D object because I didn’t need to include it into … Platform engine using Box2D – Step 2
This post is guest-blogged by Alex Schearer from anotherearlymorning.com, and it’s very interesting for anyone looking to enter the Word Play contest. It explains the use of Trie Data Structure In computer science, a trie, or prefix tree, is an ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys … Trie Data Structure in Actionscript 3
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes some securty bugs and other issues as described below: Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change. Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting … WordPress 2.8.1 released
I have to say, I spent more than a couple of minutes to find a title for this post. I wanted to write something like “[do stuff] with GamerSafe” but there are so many things you can make with it… in the end I gave up and used the official “Centralize your Flash gaming life”. … Centralize your Flash gaming life with GamerSafe
I would invite you to join the Flash Games Market Survey created by Mochi Media in partnership with Adobe, FlashGameLicense and Casual Gameplay. This should help big names to deeply understand Flash Games Market and hopefully bring us better and better opportunities to earn with Flash Games. In addition, you can also win one of … Flash Games Market Survey
Platform engines always represented a challenge for me, you can see my prototypes with AS2 and AS3, and this time I am going to make one using Box2D. Box2D is used as physics engine by PlayCrafter guys, and since the results you can see in Rick Triqui game are really interesting, I’ll start coding my … Platform engine using Box2D
You should remember my post Create a Flash game in minutes with PlayCrafter. Well, I made my first game with this tool, and I want to share with you my opinions about the editor. First of all, play Rick Triqui and rate with 5/5 :) Then, read my comments The idea After playing some PlayCrafter … Rick Triqui: my first PlayCrafter game
