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Cooking With Flash: Drawing Complex Images using Tweened Animation

Cooking With Flash: Drawing Complex Images using Tweened Animation

Drawing repeating elements in Flash can be a real asspain. This tutorial will teach you a valuable trick with the timeline to help you draw things like starbursts, buzzsaws, clock faces, and repeating elements along a path. Check out this vector graphic of a sun. Sure, you can individually copy and rotate all those flames [...] Keep Reading

 
 
Actually, Bill Nye is Kind of a Dick

Actually, Bill Nye is Kind of a Dick

Allow me to stray a little from my usual spate of game development posts and zombie videos to briefly comment on the Bill Nye incident in Waco. While he was giving a series of lectures, [Nye] brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day [...] Keep Reading

 
 
You Got Serve

You Got Serve

Attention everyone: the saying is “first come, first served”, NOT “first come, first serve“. This … not this. i’m ready to declare holy Jihad on anyone who botches it. Being a Christian, i’m not really sure how holy Jihad works, but if it means you get to harm people who annoy you, then yes. That. [...] Keep Reading

 
 
Pimp My Portal Part 10: Return to Jersey

Pimp My Portal Part 10: Return to Jersey

This series documents my adventures in ultra low-budget, grass roots marketing attempts to drive traffic to my game portal sites, with the hopes of breaking even at $33 a month. For other articles in the series, visit the Pimp My Portal special feature page. •*´¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨`*• My last experience with a Fiverr seller from New Jersey [...] Keep Reading

 
 
Cooking With Flash: Animating a Bouncing Ball

Cooking With Flash: Animating a Bouncing Ball

Animating a bouncing ball is one of the first things you learn in a classical animation program. These days, many programs teach video game development, including art asset prep, concept art, 3d modelling, etc etc, but they gloss over (or don’t even bother teaching) some very basic concepts than any creator should know. This movie [...] Keep Reading

 
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