In this tutorial, learn how to identify when a chunk of code should be spun off into its own .as Class file. Trial by Flash This series of Understanding Classes tutorials chart my progress through unfamiliar Actionscript 3.0 territory. i am a designer-turned-coder, so everything i understand about code was learned in the School of [...] Keep Reading

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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

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

The Not-So-Golden Archbob A thread erupted on the FlashGameLicense community boards surrounding this post by free-to-play Flash game portal owner Yinan Chen, AKA “Archbob”, who runs FlashGameNinjaClan (which we “featured” in our recent post Why Don’t You Host Your Own Flash Game Portal?): Mochi Leaderboards and Mochi Coins Understandably, members of the developer community took [...] Keep Reading