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
Accepting PayPal in games
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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I want to help fellow developers
If you’ve just finished your web game or app, you’re probably in full marketing mode trying to get your baby noticed. I know how hard this can be so I wanted to give a little helping hand by hosting a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Developer love, Promotion
Tagged advertising, apps, free marketing, games, indie, promotion
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Blog micro-transactions – a follow up
Hello and welcome back to my blog! A little while back this year I wrote an article on my preliminary results for selling the source code which accompanies my technical articles and subscriptions to the site. You can read it … Continue reading
How to make games
In this article I’m going to be talking about the process behind actually making, testing and publishing a game. It’s aimed at the absolute beginner but there should be something of interest here for the intermediate level reader as well. … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Beginner, learning-to-program, Portals, Self improvement, Stencyl
Tagged adobe flash, AI, beginner, collision detection, game developement, games, tutorial
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How to make a 2d Platform Game – part 3 ladders and AI
Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is part 3 in a series of articles where I talk about how to go about making a 2d platform game like this one: Click the game to give it focus… Apologies … Continue reading
Posted in AS3, Ladders and AI, Platform game, Technical
Tagged adobe flash, AI, bounding box, game developement, platform game, platformer, tutorial
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