A great speech about Flash post mortem made by one of the most talented Flash game developers: John Cooney. Watch it
Actionscript 2
New game contest with a $10,000 pool prize thanks to Y8.com and ID.net – I am in the jury!!
Some considerations and stats about selling source code of Flash games
AS2 Games Pack: 12 commercial and successful AS2 Flash games ready to be downloaded, improved, and used for your own projects.
« I’ve just found a site that won a top international online advertising award – and it’s been blatantly lifted from me! Its a flash application that has the same vectors and almost certainly the same AS code. Is there anything I can do? I’m in the UK – they’re in Brazil. » The guy …
If you noticed, my last post about AS2 coding is New tile based platform engine – part 11 – slopes part b, almost a month ago. I decided to quit talking about AS2 because I am not using it anymore, excluding a couple of games I am about to complete. I am not that happy …
This is another version of my platform engine made by Bryan Devlin introducing some graphics, a visual death and hangable roofs. Bryan spread out the code to follow and understand it a bit better. This is what you’ll get: Notice the hangable tiles, that’s the major improvement. You can download source code here. Also, Bryan …
Normally everyday I receive about 10 emails asking for help. They all seem to be made with a template, something like this: “hey this script does not work. Can you fix it?” Obviously I cannot fix someone else’s scripts, but sometimes I got really impressed by an help request. It happened about one year ago …
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 …
As said in New tile based platform engine – part 11 – slopes part a, the game needed a fix for the jump from/on slope bug. In part b the bug becomes a glitch… now you can jump from/on the slope but sometimes there is a “rebounce” glitch. It’s very easy to determine why it’s …
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