Intro to Papervision3D with 3D Glasses [AS3]

November 27, 2009

[AS3] Papervision3D tutorial for beginners, plus a look at how to create real 3D “anaglyph” images with Flash, to be viewed with those 3D glasses.

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Parallax Scrolling in Flash [AS3]

October 21, 2009

Add parallax scrolling to your 2D Flash game to give it some depth [AS3 tutorial]. Also covers how to make infinitely repeating backgrounds, and how to make your game’s “camera” follow the player.

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Spanish AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial

October 13, 2009

Learn to make Flash games with this Spanish AS3 Avoider Game tutorial — translated by Nicolás Lamolina.

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Understanding Flash’s Coordinate Systems

August 7, 2009

Ever traced tank.turret.rotation and found that it always returns zero, even when it’s clearly pointing diagonally?

Maybe you’ve compared the width of two identical objects, one obviously double the size of the other, and found that Flash thinks they are the same.

Every Flash dev I know has run across one of these and sat scratching their head — myself included!

So what’s going on?

Well, it’s all to do with addChild()…

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Avoider Game: The SoundObject Class and a New Game

August 3, 2009

[AvoiderGame.com Round-Up] Matthew Ammann shows us his new game, Robot Saga: Escape, and a tutorial on creating a new SoundObject class for managing music and sound effects in Flash with AS3.

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Why Your API Fails

July 29, 2009

Your API fails when you focus on making it simple to use the second time, rather than the first.

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Avoider Game: Two Tutorials, One Discussion (and a New Game!)

July 27, 2009

[AvoiderGame.com Round-Up] A game about a man fighting rhinos, a tutorial on mouse follow, a modification to the Counter class, and a discussion about nested loops.

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Move with the Keyboard, Aim with the Mouse

June 25, 2009

Would you rather have more freedom of movement or shooting? Click to play. Arrows to move, mouse to aim/shoot. This is the complement to Move with the Mouse, Aim with the Keyboard, not surprisingly, which in turn is part of my mini-series on creating a shoot-’em-up. It’ll probably be easier to follow this if you’ve [...]

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