i attended an industry event last night and fielded the same question over and over from my fellow game devs: “Howzit going?” We’re working on a word puzzle/adventure game hybrid called Spellirium. i’m happy to report that by all accounts, it’s going well. NEW to Spellirium: Introducing the Dictionary Feature We released a new playable [...] Keep Reading

So i thought it would be really cool to license a known pop song for the trailer for our upcoming game Spellirium. i realized there would be a cost involved, of course, but since i’m trying to run a legit bidness, i didn’t just want to snake the song and throw the trailer up on [...] Keep Reading

It’s true: i’m a bit of a grammar nazi. i’m not, like, a high-ranking grammar nazi or anything. i’m no Grammar Goebbels. i’m more like a Hitler Youth. Of grammar. So while the Anti-Defamation League drafts a strongly-worded email, let me list a few words that people tend to misspell or misuse, for the greater [...] Keep Reading

Prerequisites: Basic Flash Project Setup Drawing with Strokes and Fills Begin Let’s learn how to prevent Flash from doing the automatic cutting and melding that we saw in the Drawing with Strokes and Fills lesson. There are three different ways to “protect” your shapes from interfering with each other. We’re going to look at two [...] Keep Reading

Prerequisites: Basic Flash Project Setup Begin Let’s learn to draw with Flash! Flash is not the most feature-rich vector drawing package available. During its development lifecycle, the creators of Flash listened more closely to programmers than artists. As a result, many new features for artists fell by the wayside, while Flash developed a (near) fully-featured [...] Keep Reading