While people seem to become every day blinder about AdSense ads, Google is about to launch a new ad together with YouTube. Unlike the currently running AdSense “video ads”, that we can call “Well animated ads”, now I am talking about a YouTube video unit with Google ads embedded into them. At the moment, only … Google AdSense + YouTube = AdSense Video Units
November 11th update: part 2 released One of the most popular Flash games around the web during last months was a game (with some variants) called Flash Element TD, “a Macromedia Flash based Warcraft TD game inspired by Element TD for WarcraftIII”, as says its author, David Scott. The game concept is simple: there is … Make a Flash game like Flash Element Tower Defense – Part 1
This is not a proper tutorial, but an additional hint about WP customization. In the previous part I told you how to create a custom WP header. Following that tutorial you should be able to create your own custom header. But obviously every blog has a custom header. How to differentiate from the masses? How … Customizing WordPress header – part 2
This tutorial is guest blogged by TechnoMono and I am happy I got the permission to post it on my blog. TechnoMono hosts more Flash and Gimp tutorials, so don’t forget to take a look to this blog. We can define Sproing as a “throw a ball in some way” game, and the tutorial is … Build a game like Sproing with Flash
This is the beginning of a new and very funny tutorial serial that introduce some concepts I’ve never seen before in a Flash game. We’ll learn how to create the engine for a survival horror game. From Wikipedia: Survival horror is a video game genre in which the player has to survive against often undead … Create a survival horror game in Flash tutorial – part 1
Opening popups in JS is simple, but sometimes in the same page we need to open popups with different features. There are several scripts in the net doing this task but, as usual, none of them seemed to fit my needs I decided to code a complete javascript popup opener in order to have one … Complete Javascript popup opener
October 10th, 2007 update: part 2 is online Since I installed WordPress, I always wanted to make a theme on my own, but I’ve never had the time to learn how to do it. In these last days, when I installed the Torn theme, I started playing and messing with WP files, and now I … Customizing WordPress header
You all may know the casual game called Gem Sweeper, an evolution of the famous Minesweeper game included with early Windows distributions. If you don’t know the game already, play a bit for free with the trial version to know what I am going to reproduce with this simple Flash prototype. The mechanics of the … Prototype of a game like Gem Sweeper with Flash
Today finally I decided to upgrade my WP engine to WordPress 2.2.3 and abandon the TripleK2 theme. Since I installed the TK2 I was forced to miss all updates because the theme wasn’t as flexible as it seemed, in my opinion. The new theme is based on Torn 2.0 by Solostream but I am slighty … WordPress upgrade and new theme
I’ve always been addicted to logic games and Sokoban is one of them. From Wikipedia: Sokoban (warehouse keeper) is a transport puzzle in which the player pushes boxes around a maze, viewed from above, and tries to put them in designated locations. Only one box may be pushed at a time, not two, and boxes … Javascript Sokoban game script
In this time full of Flash game design competitions I know every hint could lead you to make a better game and have one more change to grab some bucks just doing what you like to to. Where to find good Flash game tutorials? Even if I submit my tuts to all biggest tutorial directories, … The best Flash game creation tutorial sites
The famous Flash games site Armor Games is hosting a Flash game design competition (fairy more than one to be honest) that will end at the end of this year. And they are paying good cash prizes to the winners! Let’s examine all the competitions: Armor Gaming Challenge #6: create the ultimate Flash game, no … Armor Gaming Challenge #6
