Category Archives: Flash
AS3-Utils
Sometimes I find myself solving the same problems again and again on several different projects. Definitely there is no need to reinvent the wheel, you just have to use the right tools. Theses days I found a perfect help on … Continue reading
BulkLoader – managing multiple loadings in AS3
One of the most common tasks in game development is the assets loading process. You have two options: 1) ship your game as a single 45Mb SWF file filled with sweet and compressed-to-the-bones images/sounds or 2) load all those assets … Continue reading
Mrdoob stats – Actionscript performance monitor
Create and develop a game is hard task, but optimize one is even harder. You can ruin a perfect game design and a beautiful artset by filling the source code with useless and/or unnecessary stuff. In order to keep things … Continue reading
Isometric AS3 game engines
After Happy Farm and FarmVille attracted millions of user there is a lot of talking about isometric games. I've played several games featuring an isometric view then I've spent some thoughts around the idea of creating my own isometric game … Continue reading
Improve your game with particles
When I play a game, I like to see all those flying particles popping up on the screen. Casual games make heavy use of this resource, sometimes more than what is considered healthy. A particle system adds dynamism to the … Continue reading
QuickBox2D: AS3 physics engine
The first time I saw a really convincing physics engine working on a PC game was during a Half Life 2 session. All that Havok physics created an unique game experience. Luckily the use of physics inside games has grown … Continue reading
AS3 game engines
I like to write my code from scratch, but it does not mean I want to reinvent the wheel every single day. This is one of the reasons why I like to use engines to code games. Sometimes the project … Continue reading
SWFConsole: enhance the power of your Flash games
Sometime ago I was working on a Flash game and I had to output some information to the console. That's a very easy task when you use trace() and the Flash IDE, but things get a little harder when you … Continue reading
FlashDevelop: a powerfull and free AS3 development tool
If you work with Flash like I do you probably have said a bunch of bad words while you were coding AS3 using the native Flash IDE AS editor. I like Adobe, I really do, Flash can do amazing things … Continue reading