Introduction For Spellirium we had to develop a system that could determine the most efficient path between a series of nodes on a point. After some diligent research and careful consideration it became clear that the A* search algorithm was the way to go. Now, I was familiar with the basics behind A* but had [...] Keep Reading

Prerequisites: none. Begin So you want to start creating games with Adobe Flash? Here’s the very first step. You’ll need two pieces of software: Adobe Flash, and a program to in which to write your code. (Code is a list of instructions you give to the computer to make it bend to your steely will.) You [...] Keep Reading

The Flash Gaming Summit, a (now) annual event sponsored by the usual suspects in the Flash gaming world, has come and gone. Scheduled strategically a day before the Game Developers Conference begins, the mini-con fills an auditorium with everyone who’s anyone in the Flash gaming scene, from solo hobbyist developers to extremely successful yet Satanic [...] Keep Reading

As i see it, there are two ways to approach programming in Flash with Actionscript: the right way, and the “this thing is due at the end of the week” way. Throughout my career, i haven’t enjoyed the luxury of big budgets and generous timelines. The broadcasters are cheap, the teevee producers work mostly [...] Keep Reading

“Fwitter”. Deal with it. Our Pull Twitter Updates Into Flash tutorials (Part 1 and Part 2) continue to be popular! A few folks were asking how i had taken my Twitter feed and rigged it so that people’s Twitter names and links were clickable. i promised to write tutorials on demand, so here we [...] Keep Reading