Category Archives: flash
3 Great Books to Help You Learn ActionScript 3
The great thing about the Flash community is all the sharing. You can pretty much find the solution to any problem or question you have. There’s tons of blogs and forums out there that are full of information on Flash … Continue reading
Step 5 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
On to the final step in making our shooter! You can go back and check Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 and Step 4 if you missed something. In this step, we’re going to add a score and set up … Continue reading
The death of IE6 and the future of the web browser
I can’t tell you how excited I was to hear that Google will stop supporting IE6 on March 1. This might just be the thing that, with companies actually wanting to upgrade to Windows 7, will end IE6′s reign of … Continue reading
Step 4 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
So far, we’ve made a ship move, shoot lasers and make enemies move around. Now we are going to make the lasers hit the enemies. This was probably the hardest part of my AS2 game to switch over to AS3, … Continue reading
Some Flash stuff I came across
I came across a link on Twitter for FlashMoto.com, Top Flash Trends for 2010. There’s nothing crazy here, Augmented Reality and Adobe AIR 2.0, stuff like that. But #6 caught me off guard a bit, The Mass Creation of Flash … Continue reading
Animate the GlowFilter in AS3
Sometimes when it comes to Flash and ActionScript, it’s the little things that can help out. I had an idea for something that would use the glow filter when you hovered over certain objects. The first way to do this … Continue reading
Step 3 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
In step 1, we made our ship move around the screen and in step 2, we made it so it can fire lasers. Now we have to give it something to shoot at. This is similar to what we did … Continue reading
Step 2 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
In Step 1, we made our ship move around the stage and in step 2 we’re going to make it fire lasers, which, of course, we need to destroy our enemies. I’ve been rewriting a game I made in AS2 … Continue reading
Flash Game Engines and some multi-touch
Over at FlashRealtime.com, Tom Krcha has put up a big post listing a bunch of different Flash gaming engines. I’ve used APE, which is a 2D physics engine and can be used to make some sweet stuff. I made a … Continue reading
Flash Player runs on the Google Nexus
I don’t think the Google Nexus is going to be an iPhone killer but it does have one thing going for it, it runs Flash Player 10. This has caused a fair amount of buzz in the Flash community and … Continue reading