Normally everyday I receive about 10 emails asking for help. They all seem to be made with a template, something like this: “hey this script does not work. Can you fix it?” Obviously I cannot fix someone else’s scripts, but sometimes I got really impressed by an help request. It happened about one year ago … How to ask for help: the Philippines example
Today I needed some key icons for developing an help window in a project I am working on and I stumbed upon 104 Standard PC Keyboard Key Icons. These icons are free for personal and commercial uses but I needed something a bit different (and I have some keys on my keyboard that aren’t listed … Photoshop files to make your own key icons
Welcome to the 3rd step of this tutorial. It’s time to cover walls, or whatever you may call some fixed, deadly obstacles. Continuing on the OOP lane, the new object called wall has a class coded in a file called wall.as saved in the same path as the other ones. This is how we will … AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 3: walls
If you played Splitter in these days, you probably enjoyed the gameplay thanks to the knife cutting and slicing various objects in the game Obviously you can made your own splitter game with BOX2D, and the “only” problem seems to be the knife. Well, in the BOX2D official forum there is a thread where a … The engine behind Splitter Flash game
From Wikipedia: Contextual advertising is a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers. The advertisements themselves are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed to the user. Because the advertisements are more targeted, they are more likely to be … Great example of contextual advertising…
In the previous step I showed you how to create a simple “move-the-ball” game using AS3 classes. Now it’s time to introduce some more elements… some coins to pick up. Obviously the coin must have its own class, called coin.as, saved in the same path as the other ones. This is the fully commented coin.as … AS3 Flash game creation tutorial – part 2: coins
Interesting thing, the web… at a first glance you can find a lot of free resources, but sometimes when you look more in depth things may differ. It happened with my last game, Halloween Couples. When I finished coding the game, initially with coloured circles, I googled for “halloween icons” or something similar. When I … When you realize you stole someone else’s work
If you are worried about the changes introduced by AS3 and would like a cheatsheet for a quick reference of most of them, then you should take a look at http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/ This site provides some interesting printable quick reference cards for the ActionScript language. AS3, Flex, AIR, Papervision, and more. Unfortunately the site seems to … ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 Migration Cheatsheet
The first game of the second part of the experiment is Halloween Couples. It’s basically the sequel of Summer Couples with a different theme and an hexagonal environment. The basics of hexagonal environments are explained in Understanding hexagonal tiles, Finding adjacent cells in an hex map – part 1 and 2. Simply match as many … Halloween Couples
Old readers should remember Flash game creation tutorial – part 1… it’s an ond AS2 tutorial about the creation of a game like Ball Revamped and its sequels. Later Tim Edelaar coded it into AS3 in Step by step AS3 translation of Flash game creation tutorial – part 1, but with the whole code in … Flash game creation tutorial – part 1 (with AS3 classes)
On october 28th, 2007, exactly one year ago, I started an experiment about monetizing a Flash game and released a one-day game called Circle Chain. Since that day, I published a total of 10 games. If you want to know more about the games, read the posts about Circle Chain, Christmas Couples, TileBall, GuessNext, Glomb, … The experiment – one year later
In my opinion one of the most important reasons people are afraid to migrate from AS2 to AS3 is its way of scripting. Pure AS3 coding dislikes coding on the timeline and wants us to write and use custom classes. Don’t worry: you can still write your script on the timeline but you won’t be … Introduction to AS3 classes
