Today I am glad to publish the work of Tim Edelaar that translated all AS2 files of the most successful post of this blog, Flash game creation tutorial – part 1. The most interesting thing is he did not use a class, but he wrote the actionscript directly in the timeline in the… let’s call … Step by step AS3 translation of Flash game creation tutorial – part 1
Ok, now you have your own game portal. Let’s call it triqui.com. You want to share a link with your friends, or want search engine to index it properly. If I want you to play Jamag, I have to give you this link http://www.triqui.com/play.php?id=1713. Now, I would like you to tell me how can you … How to generate friendly URLs with .htaccess
Some days ago Sunil Changrani sent me a the script to manage multiple balls collisions with Flash, in AS2. Now, it’s time for Andrew Cook to give us the AS3 version. Hi Emanuele, I’ve been coming to your blog for over a year now. I am doing a new game with Ball vs. Ball collision … Managing multiple balls collisions with Flash: AS3 version
Do you know what is the flood fill algorithm? From Wikipedia: Flood fill, also called seed fill, is an algorithm that determines the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array. It is used in the “bucket” fill tool of paint programs to determine which parts of a bitmap to fill with color, … Flash flood fill implementation
When I stated writing tutorials, I did not expect I would have to write a tutorial about… using a tutorial. If you look at the most recent games published, you’ll find a lot of games are useless clones of some of my tutorials or some of Tony Pa‘s ones. I said “useless” because a tutorial … How to use a Flash game tutorial to make your own game
This is a very importat thing to know when you are about to design Flash forms, or any application that needs to manage data such as an highscore table. This is a standalone tutorial, but the basics explained will be useful in the Creation of a Flash highscores API course. The only method we need … Flash sending, manipulating and receiving data with sendAndLoad
You all should know Facebook. I think it would be interesting to integrate your Flash game into a Facebook application. There are more options than you can imagine, but at the moment I’ll just embed a game, nothing more. Just remember there will be a lot more. Obviously, first you have to have a Facebook … Integrate your Flash game on Facebook
This is a month full of rich contests. Today we’ll talk about XPOGames and its $18,000 cash and prizes contest The chief of Management and PR wants to explain you all what’s hot at XPOGames: XPOGames.com / Management and PR We have issued an official Media Alert (or Press Release) last week which includes all … XPOGames developer contest: $18,000 in prizes
The first post of the new year (you should know the new year starts on May, 27th) is made by Sunil Changrani and it’s about managing multiple balls collisions with Flash. I already published a tutorial about Managing ball vs ball collision with Flash but this time we’ll manage any number of balls. Sunil was … Managing multiple balls collisions with Flash
Today the blog is 2 years old!! A lot of funny things happened during this year… Google slapped me down from PR7 to PR4, then the site was hacked a dozen times and marked by Google as an harmful site. Now, it’s PR5, recognized as an authority by Google and I am the most famous … 2 years of blogging
This post is written by Chris Benjaminsen from Nonoba.com. Nonoba is a gaming community where you can play games with your friends. What I personally like about Nonoba is they allow you to create your own achievements. See my Bees n’ Flowers page to see what I mean. This is Chris Benjaminsen: I have been … Nonoba Flash Multiplayer API contest: $20,000 in prizes
If you are looking for a new way to monetize your Flash games, then you should take a look to GameJacket, an online game advertising service actually in beta. According to the faq, to start earning money you upload the game source files (.swf) through the GameJacket Developer Console and output your custom ‘GameJacket’. Each … Monetize your Flash game with GameJacket
