Zynga, makers of the Farmville franchise, has revealed an open-source project called PlayScript. PlayScript is a true cross platform compiler for as3 developers, picking up the momentum where adobe has failed. It allows developers to target pretty much any platform, including iOS, Android, Windows 8, Desktop, as well as console's and handhelds - as well as [...]
There is often confustion by new adaptors of Starling about what Events to use to handle touch/clicks. Unlike AIR's native TOUCH_BEGIN, TOUCH_END events, Starling uses a single TOUCH event, the type of touch is then extracted in the event handler through the event (e) object. See below. private function onTouch(e:TouchEvent):void { var touch:Touch = e.getTouch(stage); [...]
Recently I have been spending more time looking at Html5 gaming solutions. Haxe NME has been my specific focus of recent. I have decided to approach the learning process similarly to the way I learn flash many years ago - by making real simple games. For my first test I have create a simple shooting game [...]
At Pixel Utopia, we LOVE as3, its a versatile language with some great development tools and a solid community. Recently there has been a bit of discussion in the community about the future of AIR as a platform. The murmurs and speculation are closely related to Adobes PR, or lack of. Alas, there are some alternatives [...]
With starling v1.3 came the introduction of filters. In this post i will show how to use the DropShadow filter. the fiilter takes 6 Parameters: Distance, angle, colour, alpha, blur, resolution. Make sure you download the latest version of starling and add it to your project http://github.com/PrimaryFeather/Starling-Framework/zipball/v1.3 // import the filter import starling.filters.BlurFilter; //apply it [...]
If you are new to starling and just learning the ropes, you have likely gone through some of the well known tutorials for the framework including the fantastic series from Adobe's Hermanth Sharma. They all demonstrate the use of Texture Packer or Flash CS6 to generate sprite sheets which are later embeded into your project. This [...]
In this post I am showing a list screen resolutions for popular devices, this list will grow and shrink as time goes by based on device popularity. You will find that most devices fall into a common resolution group, ie many android devices of 2010-2012 had a device res of 800×480 pixels, then in 2012+ they [...]
By default when publishing AIR to iOS apps, there is a default shine over the icon courtesy of apple. There is some what of a stigma around the use of this feature, and I not recommend it for apps falling into the 'games' category. (I'm yet to see a top page app in this category use [...]
There are several joystick scripts going around, however the few I stumbled upon had limited control sensitivity. A virtual analog controller should allow full 360 degree control (even if limited to certain directions within game-play, the system should allow for expansion/re-use), and MUST enable movement sensitivity (the character should move with a relative speed to the [...]
Below is the keyboard class i use when building any flash projects which require keyboard controls. Over my years as an as3 developer I have seen many different implementations of the simple character movement code. I often see people attaching the character movement script directly to the event handlers; that is not a good idea, as [...]
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