When you are about to start a new game, obviously the first thing you decide is the concept. No matter whether you change it during the making of the game or not, I think we all start from the idea “hey, let’s make a game people will play this way”. Then, when you have an [...]

If you are looking for a software that lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images with just one click, then optikVerve Labs ‘ virtualPhotographer is the software you need. This free package comes in two versions: as a Photoshop plugin or as a standalone software. I tested the PS [...]

Do you want to apply color correction to images into your Flash movies on the fly? Then ColorMatrixFilter is the class you need. The ColorMatrixFilter class lets you apply a 4 x 5 matrix transformation on the RGBA color and alpha values of every pixel in the input image to produce a result with a [...]

I think you all know Google Analytics. A Google Analytics API has long been one of the most widely anticipated (and wanted from developers) features. On April 21st, 2009 the official blog announced that the Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now publicly available to all Analytics users. The API will allow developers to [...]

Some months ago, my second game, Christmas Couples, joined the Ten Millions Plays Club. I am happy to inform you now I am in the Fifteen Million Plays Club. This is my most successful game, in terms of games played. What’s yours?

One of the most successful arcade of all times is Bubble Bobble. Besides the awesome gameplay, one of its features that made it a successful game was its cute graphic design. If you look at the picture, every level is made by a just a black screen with some platforms, but the patterns filling these [...]

Just a few days ago I blogged about (try to) Get funds for your project with My Micro Fund. Today I am glad to announce Alex from My Micro Fund liked my proposal and gave me some money to start the project I submitted. I am proud to say another reader of this blog got [...]

When you are about to design a Flash game, one of the first things you must consider is the size of the stage. Those “width” and “height” parameters must be set carefully. A size too small allows limited gameplay, while a big one can cause problems to users playing at not-so-high resolutions on not-so-powerful computers, [...]

Do you want to know what do Adobe ships to you when you purchase the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection? Here it is: Five DVDs with the suite itself and one DVD with two hours of video footage about using CS4 softwares. Let me remember you the software included: InDesign CS4 Photoshop CS4 Extended [...]

With its over 200 millions registered users (read 200 Million Strong) Facebook can bring a lot of traffic to your blog, so in my opinion it’s very important to add a “Share on Facebook” button to your blog. Facebook Sharer If you noticed, Facebook as a sharer url allowing you to share a link. I [...]