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Emanuele Feronato

Italian geek and PROgrammer

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

Month: May 2009

Alexa rank under 40K!!!

About a year after being one of the top 50,000 sites in the world, the blog now is one of the 40,000 most visited sites in the web. That’s an awesome result for a niche blog like this one, and obviously this motivates me to continue posting more and more stuff.

Talking about Blogging.

Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 3

In this 3rd part we’ll discover two interesting features: 1) How to add a bitmap texture to a plane 2) How to set the camera to make Papervision3D units match pixels Let’s start… the “units Vs pixels” issue can be a problem when we want a plane (or whatever) to have a precise size in … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 3

Talking about Actionscript 3 and Flash.

HiRoads developer Diary

If you remember 5 Commodore 64 games I would like to see ported in Flash, you know I am a great fan of Trailblazer, the game that inspired Tileball. Today I am proud to introduce Filippo Bodei from Monkey Odyssey his Trailblazer-like game HiRoads. Let’s read Flippo Bodei’s developer diary:

Talking about Flash, Game development and Users contributions.

3 years of blogging

Ladies, gentlemen and geeks, today the blog is three years old!!!!! The blog had 77 posts in the first year, 187 in the second one and 237 this year for a total of 501 posts (and none of them is off-topic… no “got a new sofa” post in this blog). More than 2,000,000 people visited … 3 years of blogging

Talking about Blogging.

Interesting jQuery effect

You know I am trying to use Gallery theme for triqui.com Yesterday I played a bit with the theme and I completely screwed everything… something like “how to destroy a complex theme in a matter of minutes”. Then I decided to code something similar by myself. That’s the only way I know to custom everything … Interesting jQuery effect

Talking about Javascript.

Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 2

Here I am to continue the tutorial about Papervision3D and planes. I suggest to take a look at the first part if you are a new reader. This time I am going to explain the basic color material and a trick to make a plane have two materials, one per side. Before you continue reading, … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 2

Talking about Actionscript 3 and Flash.

Understanding AS3 and XML

When you are about to design a Flash application using dynamic content, such as an image gallery or a tile based game, XML is one of the best ways to handle external content because it’s very easy to create, understand, read, and update. AS3 now uses a system called ECMAScript for XML (E4X) that will … Understanding AS3 and XML

Talking about Actionscript 3 and Flash.

Understanding how Box2D manages boundaries

Sometimes you may need to determine if your Box2D object has fallen off the screen. This mostly happens in games, where you are going to build something and some pieces may fall down, but obviously you can extend the concept to any application you may write. There are two “obvious” ways to do it: 1) … Understanding how Box2D manages boundaries

Talking about Actionscript 3, Box2D and Flash.

WordPress MochiAds plugin beta FIXED – UPGRADE

Loyal readers know I am developing a WordPress theme and plugin to run an arcade site using MochiAds games. Released some months ago, it has been fixed when the mochi feed changed and while I was working to make it compatible with Gallery theme and add some new features, the feed changed again so I … WordPress MochiAds plugin beta FIXED – UPGRADE

Talking about Php and WordPress.

JiglibFlash 3D Physics engine for AS3

I want to introduce you to a 3D Physics engine for AS3. Unlike engines like Box2D and the other ones listed in Flash physics engines galore, this engine adds the third dimension. JiglibFlash is a open source Actionscript 3D Physics Engine. Itâ€™s ported by muzerly from the c++ open source physics engine jiglib and uses … JiglibFlash 3D Physics engine for AS3

Talking about Actionscript 3, Flash and Links.

Papervision3D: understanding Plane object

The Plane is the simplest object you can create with Papervision3D. But “simple” does not mean we don’t have a set of options to custom our planes. Look at this script, that is quite the same as the one published at Papervision3D for the absolute beginners: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D; import … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object

Talking about Actionscript 3 and Flash.

“Gallery”: free WordPress theme – good start for a WP arcade site

Gallery is a free WordPress theme made by Chris Wallace and it’s a free, GPL-compatible gallery-style WordPress child theme built on the Thematic framework. Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It’s perfect … “Gallery”: free WordPress theme – good start for a WP arcade site

Talking about WordPress.

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Games Challenge

I will build 101 games as a solo developer

During these years, I published 229 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, Be Brave Barb, 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 and Sum, 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, Spears N' Coins, 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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