I am a Computer Engineering student in Brazil very interested in game development and also an ActionScript 3 programmer. I have a big interest in making Flash games and helping people learn the language.
Have you ever used a Flash application and noticed lag in it? Still don’t know why that cool flash game runs slowly on your computer? If you want to know more about a possible cause of it, then this article is for you.
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In this Quick Tip you will learn how to use BitmapData’s copyPixels() method to create a very fast blurry trail effect for the bullets in your shoot-’em-up games.
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Memory usage is an aspect of development that you really have to be careful about, or it might end up slowing down your app, taking up a lot of memory or even crashing everything. This tutorial will help you to avoid those bad potential outcomes!
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Construct 2 is an HTML5 game making tool that doesn’t require any programming knowledge. You just drag and drop items around, add behaviors to them, and make them come alive with “events”.
In this review I will see what Construct 2 is capable of, from my perspective as a Flash game developer. Read the review to see whether or not this tool will serve the purpose of getting my games on more platforms!
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In the last tutorial, we introduced FlashPunk and its capabilities. Now it’s time to build a game with it! We’ll build a top-down, mouse-controlled shoot-’em-up, with a title screen and a game over screen. Read on to learn more…
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Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from Activetuts+ history. This week’s retro-Active tutorial, first published in April, is a guide to Euclidean vectors: what they are, why you’d use them, and how to implement them in Flash with AS3.
Euclidean vectors are objects in geometry with certain properties that are very useful for developing games. They can be seen as points, but they also have a magnitude and a direction. They are represented as arrows going from the initial point to the final point, and that’s how we will draw them in this article.
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Learn the basics of how FlashPunk works – an amazing library to save you time and help you create the perfect game!
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Leading on from my earlier tutorial on detecting keyboard combos, we’ll see how to build a full game that tests your typing skills.
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Have you ever been amazed at the variety of attacks in fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros, Soul Calibur and others? Now you can learn how to create an engine to detect key combinations and build your own fighting game as well!
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Today, we have a fantastic Active Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. This tut is not for the faint-hearted, but for advanced ActionScripters and game developers it’s a must-read!
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