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 [...]

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, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]