Category Archives: Graphics

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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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

Designing a retro pixel-art tile-set

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Paul Firth

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 , , , , , | 18 Comments

How to make Angry Birds – part 2

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is the 2nd part of my series on how to make a game like Angry Birds by Rovio – and its been a while coming… You can read the first part here. … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Collision Detection, Graphics, Making angry birds, Physics, Technical | Tagged , , , , , | 137 Comments

Physics engines for dummies

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time i’m going to talk about the basic components that make up a physics engine and how to put them together; this tutorial is aimed at programmers who have a basic grasp … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Beginner, Collision Detection, Geometry, Graphics, Physics, Technical | Tagged , , , , , , , | 160 Comments

Isometric coordinate systems – the modern way

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time i’m going to cover a subject aimed at beginners setting out trying to make a simple isometric 2d, grid based game. The reason i thought this would be of use is … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Geometry, Graphics, Technical | 7 Comments

2d isometric land – breaking out of the grid update

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Paul Firth

Welcome back to my blog Ok, so i’ve realised i was a fool; i totally overcomplicated what you actually need to do in order to collide with a landscape composed of overlapping circles in part 1 and part 2. An … Continue reading →

Posted in Collision Detection, Graphics, Physics, Silverlight, Technical | 2 Comments