Flash Gaming Summit is a one day conference dedicated to fostering the growth and success of the Flash games community. It’s the first conference for Flash Games, and it will take place on March 22nd 2009 in San Francisco, California. Flash Gaming Summit is organized by Mochi Media, the company behind MochiAds The conference will … Flash Gaming Summit 2009
This is an example about the creation of a sling using joints and motors. Click the mouse to break the joint and release the bullet. Try to hit the stack of boxes. I used a distance joint, a revolute joint and a motor. The code does not need to be commented because there is nothing … Creating a sling with Box2D using joints
Normally I don’t like that much blog posts with a ton of links, but this time I got the permission from Kelly Sonora from Learn-gasm to publish Jessica Merrit‘s article about 70+ Open Courseware Links for Game Designers and Developers. Whether you work in game development or design, or you just aspire to, there are … 70+ Open Courseware Links for Game Designers and Developers
Porting Breakout/Arkanoid with Box2D seems to be an interesting challenge for developers. Some days ago I showed you Phyballs, now it’s time for Andre Vidal to show his work. Andre runs his own blog I suggest you to visit because you will find some interesting source code. This is Andre’s breakout (arrow keys = left … Box2D breakout prototype
Time to learn something about Box2D prismatic joints. A prismatic joint provides one degree of freedom: translation along an axis fixed relative to the first body. Relative rotation is prevented. In other words, prismatic joints can be used to represent pistons and other sliding objects. In this tutorial I am going to show how to … Box2D joints: Prismatic Joints
Having a nice and original blog theme is very important if you want to distinguish from the crowd. Unfortunately, designing a theme from scratch can be difficult due to a lot of variables to consider: header, sidebars, buttons, css and more. There are a lot of free and not free themes available on the web, … Design quality WordPress themes in a minute with Artisteer
After understanding the meaning of the first lines in Box2D: tutorial for the absolute beginners, it’s time to explain the rest of the script. Lines 19-27: These lines handle the debug draw. Remember Box2D does not draw anything, it just calculates position, rotation and motion of every object in the world. So it’s up to … Box2D: tutorial for the absolute beginners – step 2
This is a tutorial about Box2D dedicated to the absolute beginners. I received a lot of request asking for this, so here we go. What is Box2D Box2D is a feature rich 2d rigid body physics engine, written in C++ by Erin Catto. There is a Flash version called Box2DFlashAS3, but among Flash developers it’s … Box2D: tutorial for the absolute beginners
Here I am with some new features added to the game. I had to make some gameplay because I am going to show you how to add portals API, and in order to get my game approved there must be something playable. So I decided to make an easy “click the shape” game, and I … Designing the structure of a Flash game – AS3 version – Part 4
As you know, I released two Flash games with banners inside. The first one was Red Flowers with a banner placed in the level selection screen, and the second one was SamePhysics, with a banner placed directly in the game screen. It seems obvious people pay less attention to banners while playing, so the click-through … In-game banners: a winning idea
Before you even think this script will solve a Sokoban level, I must warn you: this script won’t solve a sokoban level, it won’t even recognize whether a level is solved or not. This script, part of an old project I am going to bring to life again, will just make Sokoban wander around the … Trying to solve a Sokoban level with brute force
Enough is enough. I am really tired of reading about computer guys building websites and getting rich. On the other side, I’m bored of reading about so-called web 2.0 companies collapsing because they thought they could pay 20,000 employees to keep their blog updated. It’s time to read something fresh and new: how to lose … How to lose a kidney with your website
