Part of the Making a Flash game like Plants Vs Zombies series

Making a Flash game like Plants Vs Zombies

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 29, 2010 • 50 Comments

As promised in fully explaining a PopCap game post, here we go with Plants Vs Zombies. I have to say I am not a great PvZ player (shame on me), so if you notice something wrong during the series, let me know.

Kongregate + Unity = $25,000 contest!

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 24, 2010 • 4 Comments

Kongregate, one of the most famous Flash games portals, now supports Unity games. Unity is a powerful development environment which allows you to create web, mobile, and even console games. To celebrate the partnership, they launched a game development contest. The 10 best Unity games published before February 15, 2011 will win cash prizes for [...]

Reviewing Wistia

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 22, 2010 • Leave a comment

Wistia provides video hosting, sharing, and tracking. I am playing with its features to make a review so I need you to watch a video. I uploaded something funny to entertain you while you help me. And… yes, I ripped the music from Hawaii Five-O TV series. See you in a couple of days with [...]

Fully explaining a PopCap game

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 19, 2010 • 43 Comments

Do you like PopCap games? I love them. They are quick, easy to play and fun, the perfect for making a Flash tutorial series. Starting from Monday 27 December I will make a new Flash tutorial series about a PopCap game. Which one? You decide. Leave a comment to this post with the name of [...]

Complete Bejeweled game in less than 2KB

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 16, 2010 • 30 Comments

You should know Bejeweled from PopCap Games. It’s a game which have been played millions, if not billions, of times. Now PopCap just released the 3rd version of his blockbuster. To celebrate this event, just like I made when I coded a complete Flash Sokoban game in less than 2KB, I made a Bejeweled version [...]

JavaScript analog clock with no images and no CSS

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 11, 2010 • 28 Comments

There are a lot JavaScript analog clocks out there, but most of them use images or CSS3 tricks to make them move. I am showing you an analog clock made without any image and without any style thanks to Raphaël JavaScript Library. Raphaël is a JavaScript library that let you your work with vector graphics [...]

Blogging Vs writing a book

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 9, 2010 • 5 Comments

As most of you already know, I am writing a book for Packt Publishing. Although it’s not finished yet, I am working on chapter 10/11, so I think I made some experience about writing, and I want to share something with you. As you can imagine, writing a book it’s way different than writing a [...]

Create a Flash page flip gallery in five minutes with Project ROME

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 3, 2010 • 5 Comments

Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually anyone at work or home inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects. With ROME you can create everything from printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites, with a simple and creative environment. Initially [...]

Solving the longest common substring problem with AS3

Emanuele Feronato on Dec 1, 2010 • 8 Comments

The longest common substring problem is to find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two strings. This means if we have two strings, let’s say “ampersand” and “misunderstanding”, the result is given by “ers” and “and”. It may seem a silly exercise but it’s the basic of most [...]