Ok, now you have your own game portal. Let’s call it triqui.com. You want to share a link with your friends, or want search engine to index it properly. If I want you to play Jamag, I have to give you this link http://www.triqui.com/play.php?id=1713. Now, I would like you to tell me how can you …
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Some days ago Sunil Changrani sent me a the script to manage multiple balls collisions with Flash, in AS2. Now, it’s time for Andrew Cook to give us the AS3 version. Hi Emanuele, I’ve been coming to your blog for over a year now. I am doing a new game with Ball vs. Ball collision …
Do you know what is the flood fill algorithm? From Wikipedia: Flood fill, also called seed fill, is an algorithm that determines the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array. It is used in the “bucket” fill tool of paint programs to determine which parts of a bitmap to fill with color, …
When I stated writing tutorials, I did not expect I would have to write a tutorial about… using a tutorial. If you look at the most recent games published, you’ll find a lot of games are useless clones of some of my tutorials or some of Tony Pa‘s ones. I said “useless” because a tutorial …
This is a very importat thing to know when you are about to design Flash forms, or any application that needs to manage data such as an highscore table. This is a standalone tutorial, but the basics explained will be useful in the Creation of a Flash highscores API course. The only method we need …
You all should know Facebook. I think it would be interesting to integrate your Flash game into a Facebook application. There are more options than you can imagine, but at the moment I’ll just embed a game, nothing more. Just remember there will be a lot more. Obviously, first you have to have a Facebook …
The first post of the new year (you should know the new year starts on May, 27th) is made by Sunil Changrani and it’s about managing multiple balls collisions with Flash. I already published a tutorial about Managing ball vs ball collision with Flash but this time we’ll manage any number of balls. Sunil was …
When I am looking for an interesting font for my web design, the first site I look at is dafont.com. What I like of this site is the capability to preview the font I am going to use with a sample text. We are going to build something like a font viewer with AS3, previewing …
Now that you know how to communicate between two Flash movies thanks to the Creation of a Flash highscores API tutorial, it’s time to introduce the next step that will make you save your highest score on your computer. It’s not an hard prototype once you read Create an Eskiv Flash game tutorial (in order …
More and more game portals are developing their own Flash API to manage high scores. Having high scores means giving players the opportunity to compete for a leaderboard, making them play your game more and more. And making you earn more and more. I am showing you how to make one. I’ll use LocalConnection, like, …