I wrote about Box2D Flash version about a year ago, then I published Playing with Box2DFlashAS3 and Create a Flash game like Totem Destroyer as examples covering what you can do with this library. But I was really impressed by a thread on TriquiTips submitted by Hawdon called Box2DAs3 For Beginners! (read steps 1 and … Platform game basics using Box2D
As said in New tile based platform engine – part 11 – slopes part a, the game needed a fix for the jump from/on slope bug. In part b the bug becomes a glitch… now you can jump from/on the slope but sometimes there is a “rebounce” glitch. It’s very easy to determine why it’s … New tile based platform engine – part 11 – slopes part b
Some months ago I released some tutorials about hexagonal tiles (and I developed an Halloween game based upon Hex maps creation and rollover and Finding adjacent cells in an hex map 1 and 2). Later, Douglas Huskins told me 10 years ago he wrote a collection of functions that would help a person navigate hex … Developing hex map concept
Normally I hate when bloggers – expecially tech bloggers – write about their pets or something like “I am not writing because I got flu”… but when illness refers to computers, it’s really something to talk about. I was writing a post about online photo editors when my computer crashed. Oh, well, who cares, I … When you realize you know nothing
You asked for it, I made it… ladies and gentlemen… SLOPES! (applause). I decided to split slopes in two parts, because they are a bit more difficult than other tile types. In this part, you can walk on slopes but you can’t jump on/from them. Oh, well, you can actually jump or land on them, … New tile based platform engine – part 11 – slopes part a
Some time ago I blogged about Showing MochiAds leaderboards in any Flash movie or web page with a script made by myself that displayed MochiAds leaderboards on your site. Yesterday MochiAds guys released a widget that accepts a game slug and partner ID and will display all the available leaderboards for the given game. The … Create a WordPress MochiAds Leaderboards Widget
Today Adobe released Flash Player 10 for download. Probably some of you already downloaded the beta some weeks ago, but now it’s available for download the release stable version. At the moment there is a lot of interest about Pixel Bender that will allow to implement image processing algorithms in a hardware-independent manner. In other … Flash Player 10 released
If you are looking for AS3 version of step 10, here it is… made by Robin vd Vleuten from the Netherlands with scrolling included! Hello Emanuele, I made it with flex so I use a swc to access the tiles. All the code is now in one actionscript-file, but I’m trying to convert the code … New tile based platform engine – AS3 version updated to step 10 PLUS scrolling
Here we are with some optimization, as well as a feature some people requested: doors and keys. Let’s start with the first optimization step. Optimization See how does the script at step 9 determine if a tile is walkable (player can pass through it): if ((top_right != 0 and top_right != 5 and top_right != … New tile based platform engine – part 10 – optimization, doors n’ keys
I received a lot of emails asking me to add left-right movement to my Gold Miner clone and requiring more information about manually placing the boulders. In order to add left-right movement, you need to check for left and right arrow keys and move the hook in the proper direction. Just remember you don’t have … Create a Flash game like Gold Miner – step 2
Let’s imagine you made an awesome game and monetize it with MochiAds, and want to show your readers/the world how much your game rocks, now you have an interesting option. Thanks to Rhu from Blargh now you can have a banner showing your game stats. I am talking about something like this You can find … Put a banner with your MochiAds stats in your blog
I am sharing with you a basic level editor made for the platform engine but easily adaptable to any tile based game made by Daniel Felipe Rodriguez Your recent set of tutorials about the platform engine inspired me so I decide to contribute to your cause, I made a really really basic level editor but … Basic level editor for a tile based game
