In this third part of the platform engine, it’s time to make our hero jump. First, I suggest you to read parts 1 and 2 if you already didn’t, then you should know something about the magic of compound objects and how Box2D manages collisions. Then, you’re ready to follow the tutorial :) The hero [...]
If you have a touristic website about a city or a travel agency, it may be useful displaying the weather somewhere in the page. There are hundreds of free services solving the task, but none of them comes without watermark, is fully customizable and has a dedicated AS3 API like Yahoo’s one. Let’s see how [...]
This script is the same as How to use an embedded text file in Flash using the method described in Trie Data Structure in Actionscript 3 You can try it just replacing the main file in the source you can download at this page with the new one I am publishing now. Now I am [...]
The opportunity to win up to $7000 with “Word Play” Flash Game Contest ends in 20 days, and I already showed you how to embed a text file in Flash. Now it’s time to make something useful out of it. In this script, you will learn something about dynamic text fields styling, input text fields [...]
This is my personal adaptation of keynote presented at Casuality Europe by Jason Kapalka, co-founder and chief creative officer at PopCap Games during Casuality Amsterdam, on February 8, 2006. Yes, a bit old, and not exclusively Flash-oriented, but these rules did not change during the last three years, so… here they are: 1) Make it [...]
Today MochiMedia, the company that launched MochiAds and other awesome tools to monetize, distribute and track games, redesigned the site. Now all features are accessible from the home page, and some of them changed their name, such as MochiAds now called Ads API, Mochibot (Analytics API), Version Control and Encryption (Live Updates) and Leaderboards (Scores [...]
Some time ago I published Basic Filler engine with Box2D – part 1, now it’s time to see the next step. I am going to add enemies, the evil bouncing balls. Obviously, enemies aren’t affected by gravity, and this can be made following the instructions published at Managing multiple gravities with Box2D. The next, big, [...]
One of the apparently hardest things to do with Box2D is assigning different gravity forces to different objects. For instance, you may want the world to be ruled with regular gravity, while you don’t want the bullet fired by your character to be affected, or you may want regular gravity for all boxes and inverted [...]
Now that you have a WordPress theme and plugin in order to set uo your own MochiAds arcade site like triqui.com, let’s see how we can add some interesting features with the Publisher Bridge. Every step explained in this tutorial will be included in the next upgrade of Triqui MochiAds Arcade theme, but it’s very [...]
After publishing Platform engine using Box2D, my attempt to replicate the Rick Triqui‘s main character continues. Now you can move the guy with left and right arrows, aim the bazooka with the mouse and shoot a bullet clicking on the mouse. The bazooka isn’t a Box2D object because I didn’t need to include it into [...]
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