In our first thrilling look at Understanding Classes in Actionscript 3.0, we talked about how Classes are structured, and how you can make that leap from stashing all your code in the first frame of your Flash movie like an IT chipmunk, to moving your code to its own Class. I promised that in Part [...] Keep Reading

Chalk this one up to Things Jeff Taught Me. Jeff Gold (ue_jeff) is our Game Developer and, as such, is terribly helpful. It amazes me that i can use Flash professionally for ten years and i still find myself discovering features that have existed for many versions. This is one feature that Jeff tipped me [...] Keep Reading

HeyZap start-up honcho Jude Gomila posted this handy list of articles for start-up companies on Twitter. The list was compiled by Douglas de Jager, himself the head of a data mining start-up called BytePlay Limited. (All this is true, as long as my Google-fu remains strong) i love big lists of articles like this that [...] Keep Reading

i’ve been talking and posting a LOT lately about Flash microtransactions. i’m at the point now where if i had just spent the same amount of time developing that i’ve spent flapping my gumholes, i’d have published some solid content by now. But i’m hoping that all of this research and planning and thinking and [...] Keep Reading

Despite being a Flash game developer, i don’t often drink my own industry’s Kool-Aid. A round-up of the games i purchased in fiscal 09 listed only one Flash game – but Flash games are almost entirely free-to-play, so i must have played a bunch of them over the course of the year, right? Actually, no. [...] Keep Reading