Our first tutorial, Pull Twitter Updates into Flash, got us a bit of attention. So rather than write an entirely new tutorial, we thought we’d beat a dead horse a little and re-hash some of the same material. We’re even using the same Fwitter logo. Classy. This tutorial builds on the last one, and helps [...] Keep Reading

i created Bloat. at TOJam, the Toronto game jam, this past weekend. Click here to play Bloat.! i spent a lot less time on this year’s game than i did with my other entries, Two By Two and Here Be Dragons – Bloat. clocked in at around twenty-two hours. i took time out of the [...] Keep Reading

Dusty pillows, jumbo freezie wrappers and empty energy drink cans litter the floors. Another TOJam has ended. (technically, this is a picture of set-up, but any shot that’s not packed with slap-happy devs coding up a storm is equally forlorn-looking) (Team photos were all taken by the super-talented Brendan Lynch, and unceremoniously snaked from his [...] Keep Reading

Often I find working with Bitmaps and BitmapData in Flash can be cumbersome. Simple things such as resizing images can require a lot of code. For this tutorial i have created a “BitmapResampler” class to help makes things easier. This class can be useful for things such as creating dynamic thumbnails, taking Bitmap snapshots of [...] Keep Reading

i’m taking Two by Two from the Untold Entertainment library to see how various online monetization methods for Flash games pan out. Part 4: Newgrounds Newgrounds is an American Flash Portal created by the people, for the people … and by “people”, i mean mostly adolescent boys and similarly-minded men who revel in exploitative content [...] Keep Reading