How many times did you draw a “not so good-looking” character in your game just because you aren’t that good at drawing and you did not now where to find the graphic you needed? And how many times did you draw something interesting for your game, just to discover you changed something in the gameplay [...]

In the last times we saw an interesting diffusion of mobile handsets in the market, just think about the iPhone alone sold 4 million units in 200 days. That’s why a lot of big sites such as Google and Facebook feature a mobile version. What about a your blog? MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that [...]

During late 90′s web games as we know them did not exist. At that time Javascript was the only language used to make some simple browser games. Years passed, and Flash became the leading tool to make Flash games. Anyway, I want to point you to two javascript libraries made for game developers. While you [...]

There are thousands of posts around the web about free Photoshop alternatives. Let me start from another point of view. There isn’t any free alternative to Photoshop. As far as I know, there isn’t any alternative at all to Photoshop. But if you aren’t going to use all Photoshop features or you are somewhere around [...]

Normally I don’t like that much blog posts with a ton of links, but this time I got the permission from Kelly Sonora from Learn-gasm to publish Jessica Merrit‘s article about 70+ Open Courseware Links for Game Designers and Developers. Whether you work in game development or design, or you just aspire to, there are [...]

If you played Splitter in these days, you probably enjoyed the gameplay thanks to the knife cutting and slicing various objects in the game Obviously you can made your own splitter game with BOX2D, and the “only” problem seems to be the knife. Well, in the BOX2D official forum there is a thread where a [...]

From Wikipedia: Contextual advertising is a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers. The advertisements themselves are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed to the user. Because the advertisements are more targeted, they are more likely to be [...]

If you are worried about the changes introduced by AS3 and would like a cheatsheet for a quick reference of most of them, then you should take a look at http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/ This site provides some interesting printable quick reference cards for the ActionScript language. AS3, Flex, AIR, Papervision, and more. Unfortunately the site seems to [...]

Let’s imagine you made an awesome game and monetize it with MochiAds, and want to show your readers/the world how much your game rocks, now you have an interesting option. Thanks to Rhu from Blargh now you can have a banner showing your game stats. I am talking about something like this You can find [...]

Sometimes Flash developers also work to game development on other platforms. It’s the case of byronay that worked on Multiwinia, a multiplayer game that will make you challenge your opponent to a game of stick-man slaughter and witness devastating digital-war unfold. Byron has decided to give away all 10 copies to random people and all [...]