http://pixelwelders.com/blog Flash + Flex + Game Dev + Grammar? Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:28:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Background For the past two months or so, I've been hard at work on a game that I hope to unleash upon the world next month. Truth be told, I'm a bit nervous since I've been getting more and more ambitious as I develop. That's something they tell you never to ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/game-design/2009/as3-rpg-style-stats-system/ Happy day, folks. I just took possession of a little something from the UPS man that I'd like to share with you. In fact, I've been asked to share it with you, which I admit is more than a little flattering. It's Unity Game Development Essentials, sent to me courtesy ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/featured/2009/unity-game-development-essentials/ If you have even a passing interest in great music and social media, take a look at Thru-You. Holy crap. http://pixelwelders.com/blog/asides/2009/aside-thru-you/ I've been spending a lot of time lately working on a fighting game for a client. It's pretty standard Street Fighter fare, only much simplified due to time and budget restrictions. However, it made me start thinking about the limitations of the old 2D fighters and what a ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/game-design/2008/barebones-as3-skeletal-animation-system/ Usually I like to post glamorous stuff, like 3D swirly things and experiments. Occasionally, however, I feel the need to release a little code in the interest of helping a few people out. This code is a review of sorts, since I already posted a similar utility back ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/flashflex-integration-swflibrary-v15/ After a couple of months working on this project, I am ready to release my labor of love. Presenting: Tutorio.us! To explain what this is, and instead of writing something new, I'll just quote directly directly from the website: The Scenario So you want to learn Flash. Great! A noble endeavor. And ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/presenting-tutorious/ After a long Papervision-induced hiatus, I've come back to FIVe3D- mainly because I still think it's a great library. Since it's still relatively new, however, there's not a lot of example code out there. Thus, here's another chunk from your friends here at Pixelwelders. This class creates ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/actionscript-3/2008/five3d-custom-primitive-vectorcube-class/ I just spent the last three weeks a little bit out of the action, wandering Europe in a motorcoach. On said motorcoach, there were only two things to do: play with my laptop, and play poker with the other passengers. By the end of the trip, I ended ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/game-design/2008/pokervision3d/ I’ve been taking buses around Europe for a couple weeks now, and sometimes those trips get extremely long. Yesterday I took a bus from Venice to Seefeld (Austria), a trip that would have taken about five hours if not for the hurricane-like downpour they were having in Italy. ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/speed-tests-objects-vs-arrays-vs-dictionaries/ Sorry for the lack of updates, everyone: I'm currently in Switzerland enjoying the fondue (true story). However, I did stumble across something interesting during my last five-Franc Internet session. Although we've all heard for years that Google does index SWFs in some mysterious way, no one has really ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/flashosphere/2008/flash-google/