What good is smoke? Let’s think for a second. What produces smoke? Failing mechanical equipment, grenades, guns, volcanoes, factories, fires, vehicles, and probably a million other things. So does your Flash game need smoke, well, that’s for your to decide. But the fact of the matter is we can produce some rather convincing smoke with [...]
July 1st, 2009 | Tutorials | 14 Comments »
Why and How to Encrypt Your Flash SWF
So you just finished your first flash game, it’s excellent, at least you think so. I mean you put hours on top of hours into it. Your eyes have been bloodshot and you’ve pulled your hair out more than once. Needless to say, you’ve worked hard and you are incredibly proud of it (But your ego is in check, you’re not arrogant or anything 
). So you send your game off to be spread virally around the internet and it’s doing amazing!!! You’re making all kinds of money on your advertising, then a week later some guy comes out with your game and new graphics… better graphics. But it’s the same game, seriously to the last detail it works almost the exact same way. You’re the victim of someone decompiling your game and stealing your source code! You’re game loses popularity and you just lost a lot of hard work and money!
Easily Use Frameworks in Multiple Projects By Setting a Global Class Path
This is a super valuable tip that has saved me a lot of time and headaches when starting a new project. Do you often find yourself copying frameworks like Tweener, Papervision, Box2D, as3CoreLib, and all the many others into the directory of your latest project? It get’s annoying eh? Well there is a quick and very easy way to solve this problem so you don’t have to always copy them everytime you start a new project.
April 15th, 2009 | Quick Tips | 2 Comments »
Making a Complete Flash Game: Creating & Understanding the Preloader
We’re going to talk about the first thing you see in every good flash game you’ve played, the preloader. Without the preloader your audience will likely leave your game after staring at a blank screen for too long. So the feedback given from a preloader that tells the user, “Hey, the game is loading. Be cool wait a second and we’ll be ready to go” is vital. And since this is the largest single page tutorial on As Gamer to date, you’ll definitely get the information you need.
April 7th, 2009 | Tutorials | 13 Comments »
Using 9-Slice Scaling to Retain Shape while Resizing
So what is 9-Slice Scaling? Well, it’s a way of dividing a MovieClip up into 9 seperate pieces in order to maintain the shape of the corners and repeat the sides. This will be a quick tutorial that will explain to you exactly how it works. I may refer to it from time to time as a scale9 grid. I’ve heard it called each so just remember that a 9-slice scaling MovieClip is the same a scale9 grid MovieClip.
April 2nd, 2009 | Quick Tips | 4 Comments »
Making a Complete Flash Game: Overview & Planning
By popular demand, AsGamer is ready to start a new series dedicated to developing a flash game from the ground up. We’re talking everything: the preloader, the menus, the game, game over, highscore, all that. Now of course, we may take advantage of some already developed systems. For example, we’ll probably use MochiAds LeaderBoard to setup our highscores. However, by the time this series is complete you’ll be able to go through all the steps to create and spread your flash game around the web.
March 31st, 2009 | Tutorials | 6 Comments »
An Even Better AS3 OOP Flash Custom Cursor
In the last tutorial we created a custom cursor, in this tutorial we’ll address some issues that will make our cursor a lot more useful! Today we’ll learn to make the cursor disappear when the mouse leaves the flash window area and reappear on the return. At the same time we’ll set it up to react correctly during a right click and most importantly maintain it’s position at the top of the stage. This way newly added MovieClips will not be able to appear on top of our cursor.
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