I am about to develop a tile based platform engine that (in my opinion) will allow to create a lot of different games just changing some parameters. At the moment it only allows to move horizontally but everything is planned, from rooms to jumps, ladders and ropes. My goal is making the developer only focus [...]

This is the 3rd step of the creation of this awesome game. In this step, I created a full playable game with 3 levels. Level generation is made through a function and a switch that renders the proper level. Full source code commented as usual, be sure to read part 2 before jumping into this [...]

I started programming when I was 13 in a Commodore computer, and during these 20+ years I had to learn a lot of languages… various Basic versions, Turbo Pascal, C++, Assembly, Blitz Basic, Java, Javascript, Asp, Php, MySql, Actionscript… I want to share with you some tips that can be useful when you are about [...]

Living in Italy is fantastic, but this also means I’ll probably miss every interesting IT conference. Anyway, thanks to Michael Sorrenti from Flash Magazine I can enjoy a full report of the conference, and he asked me to share it with you, so we’ll be able to see what happened without even suffering jet lag. [...]

When your blog starts becoming popular, people will visit, read and talk about it and your blog will have comments pingbacks, and trackbacks. While everybody knows what is a comment, I am going to explain pingbacks and trackbacks. From WordPress Codex Glossary: Pingback lets you notify the author of an article if you link to [...]

Here we are with the second part of Create a Flash game like PixelField. In this step we’ll see how to draw a level. The game is obviously a tile based one, and I like how tiles are a bit smaller than the real tile size, to leave a little gap between tiles and make [...]

Today I tested the beta plugin I introduced you in the Creating some hype… post and it worked fine. It successfully imported all games and now I am looking for a good theme to finetune to transform the blog into an arcade site (do you know any good theme?) Before asking you to test the [...]

The wait is over. You can finally download and install the beta version of Chrome, the new browser made by Google guys. I installed it and everything seems to work. I am not going to review it… but I am very interested in the Chromium Developer Documentation that explains how did they make it. It’s [...]

Just a quick uncommented prototype involving growing (and moving) spheres and a sphere you control with the mouse. Click the mouse to change color, if you touch a sphere of the same colour as yours, you’ll make it disappear. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [...]

… just to let you know what I am doing… … the complete portal manager should be released as a WP plugin before september ends. The beta version maybe this week. If you have suggestion or ideas, let me know…