Archive for the 'Actionscript' Category
Flash Hacks (by Sham Bhangal) is shipping
Just a quick note to say that O’Reilly’s new Flash Book, Flash Hacks by Sham Bhangal, is finally shipping. Quoting the book description, Flash Hacks tackles problems and solutions that aren’t dealt with elsewhere. You’ll pick up insider tips from the experts, and learn about amazing and sometimes quirky aspects of Flash. If you want […]
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Posted on 13/Jul/2004 at 7:20 pm | 4 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash
MC Tween, Reloaded
A year ago I started working on some MovieClip tweening prototypes based on Robert Penner’s easing equations (I went to proto.layer51.com but couldn’t find any good one so I decided to start my own). I’ve been updating and evolving these tweening methods for quite a while (since I do use it on my everyday work) […]
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Posted on 17/Feb/2004 at 5:06 pm | Comments Off on MC Tween, Reloaded | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, MC Tween
Tile-based engines tutorials
TonyPa (one of the guys who were helping me optimize my pathfinding routines recently) has published a series of lessons teaching about the art of creating tile based games on Flash. Most of this work is based on Klas Kroon’s OutsideOfSociety wonderful work, which speaks a lot for the quality of the material. Source: OutsideOfSociety
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Posted on 5/Oct/2003 at 2:29 pm | Comments Off on Tile-based engines tutorials | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Sprites, Videogames
A change of direction
I get it now. I feel kind of stupid for not realizing it before, or for not realizing the whole magnitude of it: Macromedia isn’t on the “web site” tools market anymore; they’re on the distributed application market. Oscar Trelles realized it too. I’ll tell you, it took me long enough to stop, look at […]
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Posted on 4/Oct/2003 at 1:35 am | 3 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Misc
Flash pathfinding, again
After tons of help and suggestions by the critical eyes of tonypa at a GotoAndPlay forum thread, my original pathfinding algorithm has been optimized quite a bit and published at GotoAndPlay’s article/prototype library. The source for that Advance Wars-based map has also been published here; I forgot to do that before. There has been quite […]
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Posted on 13/Aug/2003 at 4:14 pm | 5 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Videogames
Labyrinth pathfinding
André Michelle has published a new pathfinding engine that is suited to be used on labyrinths; seems pretty fast. There’s a benchmarking example with source code available to download.
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Posted on 7/Aug/2003 at 1:09 pm | 3 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Videogames
Flash ANSi viewer and reflections on Flash speed
Old technology never die, it only gets emulated. Anyone remember the ANSi format? The ANSi (with a lowercase “i” – ain’t it 1337?) format was used on Bulletin Board Systems (BBS for short) years ago. If BBSs were the world wide web of the 90s, ANSi screens would be the HTML of the 90s. To […]
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Posted on 21/Jul/2003 at 1:32 pm | 9 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Oldschool, Typography
Flash pathfinding prototype
After all kinds of tweaking, I’ve finally finished a more or less fast and stable pathfinding algorithm in Flash. It’s a prototype (well, just a function in fact) in which you pass a map, a start point and an end point as parameters and it returns an array containing the best path between the two […]
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Posted on 16/Jul/2003 at 12:08 pm | 13 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Videogames
Mode 7 in Flash redux
Now that’s fast. Some weeks ago a new technique for Mode 7 emulation in Flash – or Z-mapping as real programmers would call it – was introduced by PercyPea on a FlashKit forum thread. Now, a full-featured game using a similar technique has been developed and is on testing – here’s the full scope on […]
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Posted on 15/Jul/2003 at 11:34 am | Comments Off on Mode 7 in Flash redux | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Videogames
Impressive mode 7 emulation
Someone called “PercyPea” created a thread on the FlashKit forums to show off his MarioKart-style Flash engine – basically, a recreation of the classic SNES trick known as mode 7. It’s mainly a floor texture emulation. What’s impressive about this, though, is that he has achived a pretty impressive speed with a near-perfect visual result. […]
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