Ok… I think it’s time to start talking about Actionscript 3. Even if AS2 is way to be dead, is becoming a bit obsolete… every new library like Box2DFlashAS3 only works in AS3, so sooner or later we must learn AS3. Obviously I won’t stop talking about AS2 until it’s dead and stinking… but this … Create a Flash ball game using AS3
Some time ago I told you to watch Box2DFlashAS3 physics engine. I dont’ know if you did it, but I did. While the original Box2D project come to 2.0.0 version, the AS3 porting is “still” at 1.4.3, but soon it will be upgraded. So I think it’s absolutely time to play with this library. While … Playing with Box2DFlashAS3
To show you how hard I am going to try wiping the vaporware out of my life, I am publishing the 3rd part of the platform game tutorial. Read parts 1 and 2 if you don’t remember what I am talking about. In this update, I introduced two new tile types: the lava tile that … Creation of a platform game with Flash – step 3
Do you know what’s the so-called vaporware? From Wikipedia: Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. Interesting thing… they gave a name to most developers’ habit… starting a project and … Wipe the vaporware out of your life
One of the most popular Flash games is BoxHead by Sean Cooper, that released the 5th game of the series called The Zombie Wars. At the moment I am just giving a small prototype of the “hero” controlled with arrow keys and the “zombie” chasing the hero. One of the interesting things about BoxHead is … Make a Flash game like BoxHead – part 1
It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Maybe in the near future MochiAds guys will be able to answer this question. This is a message from JamesonH: Here’s a little feature that one of our Computer Scientists, Emad, put together to show how global Flash games are. It’s still very experimental and there are a lot … Where in the world are your Flash games being played now?
One of the biggest problems of step 3 was Bombuzal waled sooo slowly. So I added a variable called walk_speed where I assign the walking speed in pixels per frame. Then, in the original game you have to think fast. You can’t stay on the same tile for more than about 5 secods, or the … From zero to Bombuzal – step 4
After giving me a PR7, then slapping me down to PR4 because (Google said) I was selling links, after giving me a PR5 and after marking my blog as a blog that could harm your computer, now Google says I am an authority. Look what happens when you search for my name: An authority result! … Google recognizes I am an authority
Sometimes you need to make your Flash movie (or game) to work only on selected domains. Sometimes you may want to blacklist some domains so they can’t display your Flash content. This is called sitelocking, and means you lock a movie to a specific site. Let’s see how can you sitelock a Flash file. The … How to sitelock a Flash movie
Here it is another fresh Flash game prototype by FrozenHaddock, that jumps from the forum to the blog. FrozenHaddock was playing around with Flash as he says, when he come out with an interesting prototype. Something I was fiddling about with, might work well as a puzzle game of some sort. Some people might find … BallPusher: new Flash game prototype
In almost all “kill the enemy” games you can see a green energy bar turning orange and red as the foe get wounded by our fire. It’s time to show you how can you do this. In this example, I will start from the Flash prototype of a game like Balloon Invasion example but obviously … Displaying enemy’s energy bar in Flash games
Well, I don’t know if it’s really new or some of you already saw it elsewhere… but I’ve never seen this way to control the player It works this way: you move the mouse pointer. When you click the mouse, the player will move in the opposite direction of your mouse pointer. The closer the … A new player control concept
