Tag Archives: game developement

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 →

Posted in AS3, Business, Full games, Micro-transactions, Server side | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in AS3, JSON, Multi-player, Server side, Technical | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

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

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

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 games

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Paul Firth

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 , , , , , , | 24 Comments