Category Archives: AS3

How to make a Facebook social game

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hi and welcome back to my blog! This time I’m going to talk about the process of making a very basic social game as a Facebook app. It’s my hope that if you know how to make a Flash game … Continue reading →

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How to make a multi-player game – part 2

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is part 2 in the series where I talk about making a multi-player game. Last time we built a TCP socket server in node.js and we’re able to send and receive complex … Continue reading →

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Fixing security sandbox violation in Flash AS3

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time I wanted to talk about the dreaded Security sandbox violation error which Flash will sometimes throw at you when you’re working with external websites, or sockets, or file access across local/web. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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