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Indie games and Flash

Looks fun and addictive, right? Yeah, just like a real video-game, that’s distributed at retail stores or an online video game shop, like Steam.

But it still doesn’t look that complicated, to be impossible to make in Flash!

In fact, some of the indie game makers actually started their career with Flash. Take Edmund McMillen and his Meatboy series for instance. The first part came to internet as a free flash game with the name Meatboy, the second part was an extra map pack, and now he is releasing a brand new Meatboy game for Steam. Guess what? It’s also made in flash.

So, what makes a good indie game, worth to spend your money on?

First of all, it has to be original, not just another asteroid clone. Or, it could be an asteroid clone, but with an unique twist, that noone has ever seen before… like Shift, a platformer that gives the player an ability to turn the screen upside down and play the level like you’ve never seen it before.

Secondly, it has to be addictive! It needs to have something, to make the player get lots and lots of adrenaline, and keep playing the game.

Thirdly, it doesn’t have to be annoying, or plain stupid, that would make the user curse and throw knives at people.

Or does it? It’s up to you to decide. Experiment with the gameplay, graphics and everything else (if you’re a game developer) and eventually you’ll come up with something interesting and fun.

That’s all for now!

Banner making

Now, if you’re looking for a flash banner for your site, you can order one at the cheap prices right here, on this site!

Choose from normal or interactive banner types, fill out the forms, give the basic idea of how should it all look like, and wait for a reply!

Note, that all the previews I will send you will be trial and will only work for a few days. A full, working version of the banner will be sent to you after the purchase.

Have a nice day!

Flash CS5 – features

I’ve heard some people talking about if CS5 supports Actionscript 2, and should they upgrade if they are used to AS2.

What would be the point? All the new features Adobe is adding to Flash are only for AS3, here, let me explain:
There are 3 languages at the moment used in flash – AS, AS2 and AS3.

AS and AS2 are not too different, and they run on AVM (Actionscript virtual machine). What does that mean? That means that the technique flash uses to show the movie when it’s played is the same Actionscript 1 & 2.

AS3 runs on AVM2 (sometimes AVM+) that uses a complete different way to show us the file, and also supports such features like bones, 3d rotation, physics (CS5) and more.

So, if you’re used to AS2 – don’t bother upgrading to CS5, unless you are going to learn Actionscript 3.

Am I right?

3d engines in Flash

I must say that at the moment I know almost nothing about 3d, and I’m starting with the beginner tutorials. So far I’ve seen three flash 3d engines:

Away3D – a powerful, widely-used and good looking 3d engine, free to use.

http://away3d.com

Papervision3D – a clean, fast, popular 3d flash engine.
http://blog.papervision3d.org/

Alternativa3D – probably the most powerful 3d engine in flash, created by russian programmers, which is still in development. However, it won’t be free.
http://alternativaplatform.com/ru/alternativa3d/

That’s it for now.

Have a nice day everyone!

Flash or Silverlight?

Here’s a rather interesting article I came by.
So, Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight?

The article gives a few technical differencies for Flash and Silverlight, however, I found the programming feature the most interesting.

The scripting language of Flash is Actionscript, that comes with ‘huge, powerful class library for developing online browser-hosted applications and stand-alone desktop applications’.
It can interract with other data bases and languages like JS, XML, PHP, ASP and others.

Completely different with Silverlight. There you can choose from among a number of languages such as Visual C#.Net and Visual Basic.Net, including client-side scripting with JavaScript. C# and VB.NET can be used to write managed code that runs on and uses all of the enhancements and capabilities of Microsoft’s .NET framework.

Why is that important? Firstly, most of programmers are already used to C based scripting, when AS is a completely unique language used only in Flash (although it is based on C, it’s still different), secondly, in my opinion the languages Silverlight uses are more powerful, and programmers can make things that they have always wanted to do in flash. Who knows, maybe one day we will see Halo played from a browser.

However, at the moment Silverlight has alot of cons. For example, it doesn’t compress it’s export files, it only (fully) supports JPG and PNG image formats, it doesn’t work on all OS, and more.

Moved

The site is moved from Ucoz to WordPress, due to the annoying ad bar in the top of the screen and faulty layout.
WordPress, on the other hand, can do everything ucoz offers, plus alot of more features.

And why didn’t I choose WP a few weeks ago?