Well, everybody knows it’s not right, but sounds fine. As I said in the post New look for emanueleferonato.com, I am on top 50,000 sites according to Alexa. It’s not so bad for a niche blog, so let’s go to the pub and have a drink, tell the bartender I will go there and pay … One of the top 50,000 sites in the world
If you want to add a new twist to your interface or games, you should try PowerCursor by Koert van Mensvoort (look at his site…) According to the official site, PowerCursor is a software toolkit in Flash for designing interfaces you can touch. Tactile sensations like stickiness, roughness, pressure, volume or mass can be experienced … Design interfaces you can touch with PowerCursor
One of the best (or worst) things about programming is once you think you’ve almost done it, another problem pops up. In part 3 I told you the hardest part was done, but I guess I was wrong. This is an almost-working php script to include one game into WP in the same way as … Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 4
Some days ago I received a message from MaxManning about Summer Couples, and I want you to read it: « Hey, first I love your new game Summer Couples, it’s wasted far more of my time than I should have allowed it to. That’s the sign of a good game! Anyways, I was playing it … Timer based Vs frame based
If you look at the sidebar of my blog you will see AdSense for Search replaced the standard WP search. First, I am going to explain why to do it, then how to do it in the most professional way Why? There are five reasons why you should use AdSense for Search Display results in … How (and why) to include AdSense for Search in your WP blog
I am very happy to inform you about another Triqui.com milestone: half a million plays. Half a million is nothing compared to big names plays, but it’s quite good for an auto-feed portal written in a day. It took 56 days to reach the first 250,000 plays and “only” 53 for these ones. The overall … Milestone: 500,000 plays on Triqui.com
Today I am going to introduce you a service that will allow players to design their own levels of your game. I am talking about BonusLevel The concept of the site it to provide an API that allows players create and share their own levels. This may be helpful when you are great at programming … Let players design their own levels with BonusLevel
Sometimes I play and mess with code to get some interesting game prototypes. Although I am not satisfied about this one, I want to share it with you anyway. You have to draw a lasso with the mouse trying to catch the ball inside the shape you will create. In this case you’ll win. If … Game prototype involving shape drawing and a ball
In the 1st step we created the units and the engine to select them. Now it’s time to write the code to let selected unit(s) send troops to other unit. I created a new frame for the sphere object, a green circle, representing the target unit. Let’s make a recap: Frame 1: black circle, unselected … Create a Flash Game like Nano War – step 2
This is the hardest part of the tutorial. If you survive to this one, you portal is almost done. Before starting, I made some changes to the way of inserting posts described in part 2. I completely removed the post content and saved description and instructions as custom fiedls, like in this picture: Now, you … Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 3
Once you installed your WP blog, it’s just a matter of time before you hear this word: The Loop. Did you install a plugin? It probably has some advanced functions to be inserted in The Loop. Do you want to insert a banner or a Google ad after the first post (or inside it)? You … Understanding WordPress Loop
Some days ago I played a bit Nano War. It’s an interesting RTS, and pretty easy to delvelop. In this part we’ll analyze the unit selection system. In Nano War your units are circles, and this helps a lot because it’s very easy to determine collisions knowing radius and center. Anyway, you can select units … Create a Flash Game like Nano War
