Today, the fine folks at Eltima Software have provided me with their cool new version of their product SWF & FLV Toolbox 4. At first when they came to me asking me to review it, I kindly turned them down. I mean, what’s this product going to do for a game developer. I couldn’t see it. How in the world am I going to use this? They quickly responded telling me some of the features in more detail. And at that point I was sold.
March 11th, 2010 | News | No Comments »
Graphic Design - Making Smoke in Flash
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!
How to make Death vs. Monstars style explosions
If there’s one game that’s came out lately that I have really liked… it’s Death vs. Monstars. It’s an exciting simple little flash game with lots and LOTS of bullets. If you haven’t played it, you definitely should. The graphics are simple yet beautiful, and the gameplay is just fun. In this tutorial you are going to learn to make explosions like those in the game.
Making a Complete Flash Game: Menus, UI, Screens, or Windows
Whatever you want to call it, a complete Flash game is going to need an user interface that kicks off the game. A place where the user can get more information about the game, see the credits, save the game, load the game, whatever needs to be done. The Menu the starts the game provides this functionality. So how are we going to do it? Well, you’re probably thinking this is a simple task, and it is. We’re going to make it a step simpler by creating a base menu class that we will extend in all our other menu classes. This base class will keep some of our core functionality so we don’t have to write transitions for each class uniquely.
April 27th, 2009 | Tutorials | 21 Comments »
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: Prerolling Sponsor Ads and Your Logo
One of the number one ways you can make money off your Flash game is to get a sponsor. One of the number one ways to get a sponsor is http://flashgamelicense.com. That said, if you get a sponsor they are going to want their advertisement at the beginning of your Flash game. Now honestly, this is probably one of the simplest things you can do with Flash. I mean all we are doing is showing their advertisement, which is likely a MovieClip, and then jumping on to our game. But the thing is, you could sell your game to multiple sponsors. You are going to need a quick and easy way to show of the sponsors advertisement and your advertisement without having to change your whole game every time. So today we are going to write a quick simple class to go through and play all our sponsor and credit MovieClips before our game starts.
April 13th, 2009 | Tutorials | 10 Comments »
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