i’ve been playing around with the 3D tools in Flash 10/CS4, with half a mind to completely redo our cube-mapped memory game Two By Two with an actual 3D cube. (Currently, the game uses a series of skewed planes to fake the 3D effect.) The good news is that CS4 does support 3D, although some [...] Keep Reading

You likely know how to instantiate a class in Actionscript 3 using the new keyword: 1 var someClassInstance:SomeClass = new SomeClass(); But what if you want to instantiate a class where the class name is dynamic? For example, we’re working on a project that has a Character class. We pass it a character name (“Fred”, [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Fence() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Wrap() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading

SRSLY? i don’t mean to TOTALLY BLOW YOUR MINDS or anything, but apparently “flash games” – ie “games that have flash in them” – are sweeping the nation. The child heart lurking inside you feels great satisfaction when playing new and exciting flash games full of immense animations and sound effects. i’m impressed with the [...] Keep Reading