“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

You may or may not know the name “Nexon”, but you’ve most likely heard of their games. The Korean company has produced the industry-leading titles Maple Story and Kart Rider, to name but two. And although they may not have invented virtual item sales through microtransaction as they sometimes claim, my hat’s off [...] Keep Reading

i’ve been using Unity3D on and off for a week now. i’d burned through about a dozen beginner tutorials, and am a little overwhelmed by how much i don’t know about the engine, which enables you to create 3D games to deploy to a number of platforms, including the iPhone and web browsers. i’d look [...] Keep Reading

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) concept of encapsulation, and how to break encapsulation to get stuff done in a decent amount of time. Technical Correctness vs. Getting Sh*t Done i’ve been really happy with the way this series has been received. If you’re like me, you’ve had a hard time understanding the [...] Keep Reading

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 Hard Knocks [...] Keep Reading