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
In previous part we added some gameplay, now it’s time to add timing. I recommend you to read Understanding AS3 Timer Class. I used time for two reasons: first, I want the player to collect as much coins as he can before a certain amount of time (to be defined), second to give the player … AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 6: timing
This is ideally the next part after Understanding pixels and meters with Box2D and how to select an object with mouse – part 2, but it’s so important understanding how to drag objects with Box2D that I decided to change the title. Anyway, in this uncommented example (a commented one will follow) you can select … Dragging objects with Box2D Flash
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A lot of time ago I wrote about AS2 time management in Flash simple timer/countdown. Now it’s time to see how to manage time with AS3. AS3 has its own class to manage time, the Timer class. You can read some documentation about this class in the official AS3 page, but in this test drive … Understanding AS3 Timer Class
Ok, time to learn once for all how does Box2D manages object sizes, and how to set them right when working with AS3 In previous step I used a 90×90 pixel crate. The problem is Box2D does not works with pixels because it does not have a native pixel render engine. In other words, Box2D … Understanding pixels and meters with Box2D and how to select an object with mouse – part 2
This will be the longest post title in blogging history… anyway I am about to explain you two things that seem to be still unclear about AS3 version of Box2D. The first one is Box2D measuring units that may seem weird until you realize Box2D works with meters where 1mt = 30 pixels. The second … Understanding pixels and meters with Box2D and how to select an object with mouse – part 1
Once introduced the score in AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 4: score, it’s time to create some gameplay. The idea is to create a game like Collectabubble, just a bit more polished and with some more features. The first thing to introduce is the rotating bar, a movieclip called bar with bar.as class. … AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 5: gameplay
In AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 3: walls I introduce some obstacles to kill the circle, now it’s time to make it earn some points when it collects the coins. As usual, I am creating a new movieclip called score with its score.as class. This is how score.as looks like: package { import … AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 4: score
A couple of days ago I released two Photoshop files to make your own key icons. Now Samuel Bonfante sent me the Flash version of those PSD files, for all you Flash maniacs. « Hello Emanuele, I recently saw your post “Photoshop Files To Make Your Own Key Icons”. I wondered how developers who don’t … Flash file to make your own key icons
