Sixty Top Flash Game Developers (myself included! Damn Italians, they are everywhere) from Around the World to Share Flash Game Development Tips, Secrets and Advice at Online Flash Mindmeld MicroConference. On February 15th, 60 (myself included, so let’s say 59) of the world’s greatest developers behind Flash games will speak about what makes or breaks [...]

Welcome to step four. In this step we’ll make plants fire and eventually kill zombies. Let’s start defining when a plant can fire: * When there is at least one zombie on the same row the plant is placed * When it’s not already firing (plants can fire only one bullet at once) * When [...]

As promised, here I am with the Triqui MochiAds Arcade plugin for WordPress fixed to start feeding again. The problem is Mochi guys added a new field called “languages” that wasn’t supported by the database table. I hope you will keep on using the plugin, and I want to inform you I am writing the [...]

The latest result of my collaboration with Packt Publishing is Facebook Graph API Development with Flash by Michael James Williams, who also owns a blog about Flash game developing. Michael is an excellent writer and I was pleased to be the reviewer of this book.

This is basically the Flash porting of the Flex experiment made by David Lenaerts in his blog. I found the script a very interesting way to use the NascomASLib, an open source AS3 library that provides a couple of interesting graphic effects such as pixelate and rippler, the one used in the example. The point [...]

If you want to improve your Photoshop workflow, you need a good brushes library to easily add graphic elements or effects to your pictures. Sometimes you find yourself trying to draw some Christmas ornaments for the background of your image, or browsing the web looking for some Photoshop brushes which can fit your needs just [...]

Here we go with 3rd step of Plants Vs Zombies game. Now we will place the bought plant on the game field and let the zombies enter. Adding a zombie is quite easy because we manage it in the same way we managed the sun. Just like suns appear out of the top of the [...]

Do you want to start the 2011 learning something new? If you aren’t developing iPhone games yet, then reading Packt Publishing’s Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide is a must. You should know I am writing, tech editing and reviewing Packt’s books, and I want to show you what I am reading just now: Expect [...]

In the second part of the series, it’s time to raise money to buy a plant. Also, we should add a smooth animation to falling suns, fix a bug which made them appear only on certain tiles and make them disappear if they aren’t picked up after a given amount of time. Fixing the bug [...]

Wistia is a video hosting, sharing and tracking built for business. Some days ago I told you to take a look at this video to test Wistia‘s reports, and here they are my considerations: First, uploading the video was quick and easy as if you were uploading a video on YouTube or Vimeo. Embedding is [...]