Archive for October, 2007

Create a Flash game like Mass Attack

If you love to stay updated with latest addicting Flash games, probably you already know Mass Attack.

Mass Attack is based on the very simple idea of balancing weights on a scale. Just press the mouse button to create a spheric weight. The longer you hold down the mouse the larger the weight that is created.

Maybe [...]

Artillery with bounce: a modification of Artillery tutorial

I received an email from Massimo M. - an italian reader - that modified the code explained in Create a flash artillery game - step 1 tutorial.
Massimo wrote:
“Hi, my name is Massy and I browsed your tutorials about Flash games. I think they are very good.
I modified a bit your artillery 8 file adding two [...]

Experiment: monetizing a Flash game

Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
This is the first part of an experiment I want to start. Can we monetize a Flash game? And what kind of Flash game should we monetize?
Before starting to explain my experiment, let me introduce you three different categories of Flash games: one-day [...]

The Googlement day aka why Google dropped PR

I just wanted to play with the title of one of my favourite movies (T2 Judgement Day) to say something about what happened to most blogs and websites today.
Google updated its PageRank and it’s something like the Judgement Day has come.
Most bloggers today have a PR dropped by one or even two points.
And it was [...]

APE - Actionscript Physics Engine tutorial - Part 2

I’ve been playing a lot with APE in the last days, so I am ready to write another tutorial.
I strongly recommend you to read the first part before continuing.
The first thing I wanted to do is having the APE environment working on Flash CS3 instead of Flex.
It’s very easy: when you create a new Flash [...]

The end of internet in Italy

I suggest a game: tell me the name of a Country that’s trying to “close” internet. China? Maybe. Cuba? Maybe.
Italy? Sure!
Ricardo Franco Levi, Prodi’s right hand man, (Prodi is the Prime Minister here in Italy - I did not vote him and I am proud of it) undersecretary to the President of the Council, has [...]

Flash racing car engine

I found an interesting Flash racing car engine aged 2004 (!) coded in AS 1 (!!) on Mark Fennell’s site.
I asked the permission to write his tutorial (well, not quite a tutorial, but an “how did I manage to code it”) on my blog, but I never got a reply.
Looking at his homepage, the site [...]

Mochiads - The advertising network just for game developers

I was invited to the beta some time ago, but I never submitted a game. It was in my “to do” list but you know… some projectes in a “to do” list remain in the list forever.

Now Mochiads, the first advertising network just for game developers, is open for everyone.
Earn money developing Flash Games
Now that [...]

Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop

Today I was playing with Photoshop looking for some interesting photo effect and I found a quick and easy way to convert a modern photo in a vintage one.
I have already created an action to simulate this effect in Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop, but I am sure you’ll like this effec too.
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APE - Actionscript Physics Engine tutorial

October, 23rd update: Part 2 released
With the increasing performances of Actionscript and modern computers, now we have enough power to simulate physics in a Flash movie.
All we need is… let’s say… an huge knowledge of physics, constraints, integrations and so on. With all those things to think about, we cannot focus on the main goal: [...]