« Over half of American adults play video games, and four out of five young adults play. Among adults, computers are the most popular gaming device, but among young adults gaming consoles are preferred. Virtual worlds only draw a small crowd. » Obviously american adults are not my enemies, but knowing their habits will help … Know your enemy: demographics of adult American gamers
When you are about to create a complex script with Box2D – or even a simple one, but that’s complex for your skills – I suggest to enable debug draw. Debug draw will provide you everything you need in order to verify your script is working correctly, and once you are satisfied with the result, … Understanding Box2D debug draw
This is an old project for a class held in 2005. At that time, Sodoku game was very popular in Italy, and I saw quite a lot of Flash games based upon it. If you don’t know what is a Sudoku, Wikipedia says is a logic-based number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 … Sudoku creator/solver with PHP
You may wonder why I am publishing another maze script. The reason is simple: in Perfect maze generation with AS3 post and previous ones I just showed you how to make a perfect maze, but it’s not the kind of maze you can use in tile based or roguelike games. Why not? Because walls aren’t … Perfect maze generation – tile based version
The blogsphere is magic. When you start a blog, if you do a good job, some people inspired by you will start blogging, and probably inspire you. This is the case of Michael Williams, who said I was one of the main reasons he decided to make a blog about Flash game development. He wrote … Learn AS3 by following this simple avoider game tutorial
While I am still working on the WordPress plugin for MochiAds games (it’s not a vaporware, it’s going to be a revolution), I would like you to know somethinh interesting about Come2Play. It’s a brand (and beta) new service allowing developers to quickly add multiplayer features to their games and publishers to create free multiplayer … Create a Flash multiplayer games portal in a minute with Come2Play
I was playing with Google Maps API for Flash when I noticed the tutorials in the official page are somehow not that smart, so I am going to clarify some things. Follow these simple steps: Sign up for a Google Maps API Key at this link. Once you submit the form, ignore everything you see … How to use Google Maps API with Flash AS3
I already talked about perfect mazes a couple of years ago with Step by step perfect maze generation with php and Perfect maze generation with Flash actionscript, but now it’s time to make it with AS3 and understand how can we use a perfect maze. Think about a perfect maze as a maze with no … Perfect maze generation with AS3
If you noticed, my last post about AS2 coding is New tile based platform engine – part 11 – slopes part b, almost a month ago. I decided to quit talking about AS2 because I am not using it anymore, excluding a couple of games I am about to complete. I am not that happy … Goodbye AS2…
The web is full of successful stories about monetizing Flash games… you will find some of them in Casual Games, Hard Money or you can read about my results at The experiment – one year later. Today I am writing about the other side of the coin… when you fail at monetizing Flash games. You … Monetizing Flash games: analyzing failures
This is another version of my platform engine made by Bryan Devlin introducing some graphics, a visual death and hangable roofs. Bryan spread out the code to follow and understand it a bit better. This is what you’ll get: Notice the hangable tiles, that’s the major improvement. You can download source code here. Also, Bryan … Platform engine variation with hangable tiles
