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Emanuele Feronato

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I write about game development, HTML5, Phaser, JavaScript, TypeScript, Box2D, Flash and more fun stuff since 2006

Nova effect action with Photoshop

Here it is an action I used to get something like a nova explosion. You will never get same results twice. Download the action and enjoy. It creates a new document. Give me feeback if you like it (well, even if you dislike it… but you won’t be published)

Talking about Photoshop.

Photo to impressionist painting action with Photoshop

From Wikipedia: Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in … Photo to impressionist painting action with Photoshop

Talking about Photoshop.

Mouse wheel handler in Javascript

I found this very very interesting script by Adomas Paltanavičius to determine if you are using mousewheel. It returns a delta value, +1 or -1, according to scroll direction. Scroll mouse wheel to see delta here. I am publishing it here, and very soon I will start to use it to code games, form handlers, … Mouse wheel handler in Javascript

Talking about Javascript.

Vignette effect action for Photoshop

Again, I am focusing about vignette/sketch creation wiht photoshop. This action works well only on images with high contrast, and the final effect is quite good, in my opinion. Before After Before After Download the action and enjoy… leave me feedback and send me your artworks to be published on the site.

Talking about Photoshop.

Strip non alphanumeric characters from a string with php

Very simple and useful code, but hard to find in the internet. You may need it when you code an user authentication script and want to prevent the user to hack it with ascii injection. I will use regular expressions because it is the quickest way, and we want to be quick (almost) everytime… $new_string … Strip non alphanumeric characters from a string with php

Talking about Php.

Enhanced country selection with Css and Javascript

How many times you had to choose your country in a form, with a old, simple popup? Time to change the way you choose your country (or anything else) with a bit of Css and Javascript. I am showing the example in a iframe not to mess with WordPress styles. As you can see, when … Enhanced country selection with Css and Javascript

Talking about Css, Javascript and Tutorials.

Enhanced sepia image effect action for Photoshop

I think normal “sepia” effect is too used in Photoshop, so I tried to enhance the effect and I produced an action that works quite well (in my opinion). Just run on a photo, as usual. Before After Download the action and give me feeback, with some photo you retouched too.

Talking about Photoshop.

Submit button “inspired” to Macromedia Buttons

I like very much Macromedia buttons, and I wanted to have it one like these in my forms. That’s all… here it is the style is Bye.

Talking about Css.

Photoshop photo to pastel sketch action

Converting a photo into a pencil or pastel sketch is one of the most challenging task to automate with Photoshop. Here it is an attempt. Run the action on a photo and let me know what do you think about it. Please give me feedback and send to my email any good result you achieve … Photoshop photo to pastel sketch action

Talking about Photoshop.

Photoshop Lomography Photo Action

I am always looking for nice effects to give to my photos. The “Lomo” effect is one of them. From Wikipedia: Lomography is a commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, Austria for products and services related to photography. The name is licensed from a former state-run optics company LOMO PLC in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 35 … Photoshop Lomography Photo Action

Talking about Photoshop.

Photoshop photo to painting effect

A quite simple Photohsop action to give a painting effect to a photo with Photoshop. Before After Download the action. If you use this action and are satisfied of the result, please tell me where to find your before/after photos to add them to my example page.

Talking about Photoshop.

WordPress PHP Exec Plugin

When you need to execute php code inside a WP post you are in trouble. So was I, when I tried to do it. But I found a plugin that saved my life, and my blog. This plugin lets you execute dynamic PHP code in posts. It masks PHP code before balanceTags, and unmask them … WordPress PHP Exec Plugin

Talking about Php and WordPress.
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101
Games Challenge
I will build 101 games as a solo developer
During these years, I published 226 explained game prototypes, along with source code: 1+2=3, 100 rounds, 10000000, 2 Cars, 2048, A Blocky Christmas, A Jumping Block, A Life of Logic, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Space, Artillery, Astro-PANIC!, Avoider, Back to Square One, Ball Game, Ball vs Ball, Ball: Revamped, Balloon Invasion, BallPusher, Ballz, Bar Balance, Bejeweled, Biggification, Block it, Blockage, Bloons, Boids, Bombuzal, Boom Dots, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Ball 2, Bouncy Light, BoxHead, Breakout, Bricks, Bubble Chaos, Bubbles 2, Card Game, Castle Ramble, Chronotron, Circle Chain, Circle Path, Circle Race, Circular endless runner, Cirplosion, Click when Red, CLOCKS - The Game, Color Hit, Color Jump, ColorFill, Columns, Concentration, Crossy Road, Crush the Castle, Cube Jump, CubesOut, Dash N Blast, Dashy Panda, Deflection, Diamond Digger Saga, Don't touch the spikes, Dots, Down The Mountain, Drag and Match, Draw Game, Drop Wizard, DROP'd, Dudeski, Dungeon Raid, Educational Game, Elasticity, Endless Runner, Erase Box, Eskiv, Farm Heroes Saga, Filler, Flappy Bird, Fling, Flipping Legend, Floaty Light, Fuse Ballz, GearTaker, Gem Sweeper, Globe, Goat Rider, Gold Miner, Golf Dash, Grindstone, GuessNext, Helicopter, Helix Jump, Hero Emblems, Hero Slide, Hexagonal Tiles, HookPod, Hop Hop Hop Underwater, Horizontal Endless Runner, Hundreds, Hungry Hero, Hurry it's Christmas, InkTd, Input Delay, Iromeku, Jet Set Willy, Jigsaw Game, Knife Hit, Knightfall, Legends of Runeterra, Lep's World, Line Rider, Lumines, Magick, MagOrMin, Mass Attack, Math Game, Maze, Meeblings, Memdot, Metro Siberia Underground, Mike Dangers, Mikey Hooks, Mini Archer, Nano War, Nodes, o:anquan, One Button Game, One Tap RPG, Ononmin, Pacco, Perfect Square!, Perfectionism, Phyballs, Pixel Purge, PixelField, Planet Revenge, Plants Vs Zombies, Platform, Platform game, Platformer, Plus+Plus, Pocket Snap, Poker, Pool, Pop the Lock, Pop to Save, Poux, Pudi, Pumpkin Story, Puppet Bird, Pushori, Pyramids of Ra, qomp, Quick Switch, Racing, Radical, Rebuild Chile, Renju, Rise Above, Risky Road, Roguelike, Roly Poly, Run Around, Rush Hour, SameGame, SamePhysics, Security, Serious Scramblers, Shrink it, Sling, Slingy, Snowflakes, Sokoban, Space Checkers, Space is Key, Spellfall, Spinny Gun, Splitter, Spring Ninja, Sproing, Stabilize!, Stack, Stairs, Stick Hero, String Avoider, Stringy, Sudoku, Super Mario Bros, Surfingers, Survival Horror, Talesworth Adventure, Teeter Up, Tetris, The Impossible Line, The Moops - Combos of Joy, The Next Arrow, Threes, Tic Tac Toe, Timberman, Tiny Wings, Tipsy Tower, Toony, Totem Destroyer, Tower Defense, Trailblazer, Trick Shot, Tunnelball, Turn, Turnellio, TwinSpin, Vampire Survivors, vvvvvv, Warp Shift, Watermelon Game, Way of an Idea, Whack a Creep, Wheel of Fortune, Where's my Water, Wish Upon a Star, Word Game, Wordle, Worms, Yanga, Yeah Bunny, Zhed, zNumbers, Zuma
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