18 Oct
1

Awesome XML and Action Script 3 Image / Swf Gallery

Learn to Progam an Actionscript 3 XML Gallery Compatible with Flash CS3 This 2 hour Quicktime tutorial for Flash will teach you the Actionscript 3 Code to load an XML File, which will bring thumbnails into a scrollable pane. Thumbnails then link to corresponding images or swfs which load into the main area of the [...]


15 Oct
0

How relevant is C/C++ in this new age of game development?

Posted by: Joseph Burchett Source: http://josephburchett.net/?p=545 At my last game development meetup, the topic of discussion was social games, the room was filled with about five people.  As the discussion progressed deeper into Farmville, and “why is Zynga making so much money” talk, a lot of us began to throw around a lot of different [...]


13 Oct
5

Flash Player 10: Drawing API — Part III

Now, to finish with Methods and get straight to Data Classes, let me introduce that last item… Source: http://bit.ly/yMloW Drawing Triangles Along with the new drawPath method comes another addition to the Graphics class, the drawTriangles method. public function drawTriangles(vertices:Vector.<Number>, indices:Vector.<int>=null, uvtData:Vector.<Number>=null, culling:String=”none”); This method is somewhat similar to drawPath in that it too uses [...]


13 Oct
0

Flash Player 10: Drawing API — Part II

In order to finish the item we left unfinished in the last post, here I present you the third parameter: winding… Again, enjoy the post! Source: http://bit.ly/yMloW winding The third parameter in drawPath, not used here, is the winding parameter. This is a string that specifies the winding or fill rule for intersecting or overlapping [...]


6 Oct
0

Flash Player 10: Drawing API — Part I

I found this AMAZING post on Flash Player 10 – Drawing API Since it is too extensive, I see myself forced to cut it and deliver it in parts. So I present here the 1st part of this absolutely interesting piece of information and wish you all can enjoy it and find it useful. Source: [...]


6 Oct
0

SWF Metadata tag

Since I couldnt agree more with Satori Canton [ http://bit.ly/bQMhdZ ] on the fact that we are always looking for information related to SWF Metada, I share this post with you, and thank S.C. for such useful contribution… This is the kind of thing we seem to look up all the time, but don’t have [...]