Author Archives: Paul Firth

About Paul Firth

A games industry veteran of ten years, seven of which spent at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, he has had key technical roles on triple-A titles like the Bafta Award Winning Little Big Planet (PSP), 24: The Game (PS2), special effects work on Heavenly Sword (PS3), some in-show graphics on the BBC’s version of Robot Wars, the TV show, as well as a few more obscure projects. Now joint CEO of Wildbunny, he is able to give himself hiccups simply by coughing.

2D polygonal collision-detection and internal edges

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hi and welcome back to my blog! I wanted to share something I’ve recently discovered about the heinous problem of internal edges in 2D polygonal collision detection. It’s not a full-solution, but maybe it will give some other programmers an … Continue reading →

Posted in Collision Detection, Geometry, Polygons, Technical | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

How to make a multi-player game – part 1

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Its been a while since my last post, this is because I’ve been working on a multi-player game, called mmoAsteroids which you can play by clicking on the icon on the side-bar. This … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Beginner, JSON, Multi-player, Server side, Technical | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Flash portals and version control

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This article is about version control when releasing a game onto the various Flash portals. Portals A portal is a web-site which concentrates on hosting a large quantity of Flash games. The prolific … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Business, Portals, Promotion, Server side | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Composing in-game music – retro style

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Paul Firth

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 →

Posted in Chip tunes, Music, Platform game, Technical | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Implementing a wrap-around world

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Paul Firth

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 , , , | 5 Comments

The physics of rolling

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Paul Firth

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, Collision Detection, Geometry, Physics, Technical | Tagged , , , , , | 10 Comments

Fun with convex polygons

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Paul Firth

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 , , , , , , | 12 Comments