I know a spanish proverb saying “La mejor verdad se dice jugando” that sounds like “Tell the shocking truth when you’re kidding”. That’s what Mr. Sun at the Helion Code said about 50 Ways to Make us HATE your Flash Game. He is telling the shocking truth in a friendly way… but these are 50 … 50 ways to make us HATE your Flash game
An interesting game released these days is Totem Destroyer Your mission is to destroy the totems without letting the golden Idol (aka Tot) fall into the ground. It’s a game that can be easily done with the AS3 physics engine Box2DFlashAS3, recently updated at version 2.0.1 I already talked about it in the post Playing … Create a Flash game like Totem Destroyer
Today WordPress.org team released version 2.6 with these notes: I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,†named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every … WordPress 2.6 installed and kicking
Now it’s time to make bricks disappear if they group in a 2×2 square. Read part 1 and 2 if you did not already. It’s not difficult to check if bricks form a 2×2 square… and it’s not difficult to remove them from the stage. The tricky part is making bricks fill the empty spaces … Make a game like Lumines with Flash – part 3
You know Flash content is invisible to search engines. In order to have your Flash page (or game) indexed, you have to create an HTML page with some keywords, and pray. Until yesterday. Today, something is changing in Search Engines Optimization (SEO) techniques. Look what Google and Adobe have to say From Adobe Adobe is … Flash and search engines: the revolution
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 In the 1st part I showed you how to make a deflection engine starting from an old tutorial, now it’s time to let the player draw walls. The idea comes from Srdjan Susnic, a reader who runs the blog Ask For Game Task. The main task Srdjan accomplished … Create a Flash game like Deflection – part 2
“How do I make my game better?” is the number one question Flash developers ask. Perhaps you’ve finished the game and think you’re done… but no sponsors are interested. Or perhaps you have a rough version of the game finished but have no idea how to turn it into a polished gem of a game. … Fine tune your Flash game with First Impressions service
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3 Today I spent some time with a game called Deflection. According to his author, it’s an addictive physics based game where the objective is to deflect the ball into the goal by creating deflection walls. I bet I scared most of you with the word “physics”. This means … Create a Flash game like Deflection
Probably you did not notice it, but during the last days I enjoyed a trip to Ibiza, Spain. One of the most interesting sides of being a PROgrammer is you can work from almost everywhere (although with a lot of limitations, as I will explain in a future post). The flight connecting Venice to Ibiza … Summer Couples: a game made in an airplane
Every blogger knows the real owner of the blog is its community. In order to write better and better posts, I am giving you the capability of rating the posts. In this way I’ll know what posts your liked the most and I can continue offering good tutorial series while trying to post something different … Improve the blog rating the posts
In the first part we managed to move and rotate a 2×2 square made (obviously) by 4 bricks. Now we’ll see how to make them fall when we press SPACE key. Notice that you move and rotate blocks by tapping arrow keys, but you make them fall by pressing SPACE. This because timing is essential, … Make a game like Lumines with Flash – part 2
I was wondering if functions in various languages used to return random values, such as AS2 Math.random() or Php rand() are returning real random values or just a sequence of numbers someone can predict. So I asked the question to someone that is facing this problem for a long time: Matt from CasinoInLinea. That’s what … The importance of REAL random results
