Hello, and welcome back to my blog! Its time for another guest post – I commissioned this one after a very long search to find an artist talented enough and with the right skill-set for composing in game music in … Continue reading
Composing in-game music – retro style
Posted in Chip tunes, Music, Platform game, Technical
Tagged chip tune, music, tracker, tutorial
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Implementing a wrap-around world
Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time I’m going to be talking about something related to the game I’m currently working on, which is a little asteroids style MMO: a wrap-around world. This was necessary because the asteroids … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Geometry, Graphics, Technical
Tagged adobe flash, bounding box, game developement, tutorial
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The physics of rolling
Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time I’m going to talk about the physics behind simulating a rolling circle, Super Monkey Ball style but in 2d. The key The key to making this work is understanding how we … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Circles, Geometry, Technical
Tagged collision detection, contact, physics, physics engine, programming, simulation
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Fun with convex polygons
Hello and welcome back to my blog! I wanted to talk about a couple of elegant ways of working with polygons that I’ve used over the years. Simple convex polygon area I’ve seen a lot of people go through and … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Geometry, Graphics, Polygons, Technical
Tagged collision detection, physics, polygon, programming, routine, simulation, tutorial
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Accepting PayPal in games
Hello and welcome back to my blog! In this article I’m going to talk about the process of accepting payment via PayPal in your own games. Although I focus on Flash, the techniques and web-calls can be performed in pretty … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Business, Micro-transactions, paypal, Server side
Tagged adobe flash, business, json, revenue, rpc, server
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Designing a retro pixel-art tile-set
Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time something a little different – I commissioned a guest post about designing a tile-set from a studio who specialise in pixel-art. After searching long and hard to find exactly the right … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Graphics, Platform game, Stencyl, Technical
Tagged game developement, graphics.retro, platform game, platformer, tileset, tutorial
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A new server
Hi guys, welcome back to my blog! Firstly, I want to apologise for the poor running state of this blog recently. Our previous web-hosts justhost.com were having some severe issues with their systems and it became apparent that the blog … Continue reading
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