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

A reader named Ryan (no relation) recently requested that we create a post to help him and other beginners understand Classes. So this is an ultra-gentle primer on Classes – what they are, when to use them, and how to write them. If you’re stuck in an Actionscript 2 rut, or you’re new to Actionscript [...] 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

This tutorial teaches you how to set up your game so that everything stops when you hit the “pause” button. This movie requires Flash Player 9 This is a bit of structural/best-practices advice i gleaned when i was learning C# programming in XNA for the Xbox 360. Flash/Actionscript behaves a little differently than other programs. [...] Keep Reading

That’s right – i said “Fwitter” It’s a very simple thing to display your Twitter updates in a Flash widget. We’re going to use the xml feed, because that’s what i’m most comfy with. Unfortunately, you can’t grab the xml feed from Twitter’s site, because they’ve locked their crossdomain policy file … but you can [...] Keep Reading