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An Even Better AS3 OOP Flash Custom Cursor In the last tutorial we created a custom cursor, in this tutorial we'll address some issue...

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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 | 15 Comments »

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.

May 8th, 2009 | Link, Tutorials | 3 Comments »

Creating Bullet Lasers with Photoshop

So far on AS Gamer it’s been all about programming. That’s great and all, but game development isn’t all about programming. A lot of game development involves design and therefore, graphics. So this time I’m going to take you through the process of creating a laser. This should prove to be useful in a variety of flash games. Graphic design for games is more important than most programming sites give credit. While a great game can stand alone with bad graphics… a great game with great graphics is guaranteed to be on a whole new level. Good design is all in the details. Okay open up Photoshop and let’s dive in.

March 9th, 2009 | Tutorials | 3 Comments »