Review: Flash Game Development by Example

So I finished reading Flash Game Development by Example, and here’s my verdict: it’s not really that good!
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Posted on May 31st, 2011
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Winner Announced: Flash Game Development by Example

In my contest for winning a free copy of the book Flash Game Development by Example, we’ve found a winner!

It’s Daniel from VaragtP, congrats!

For the rest of you, it’s still possible to get the book here.

Posted on May 25th, 2011
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Putting Your Flash Application on Facebook (iFrame)

This entry is part of a series, Facebook Development»

After I read the book “Facebook Graph API Development with Flash“, I wanted to make a little application to test out what I had learned.

If you want to see what I came up with, you can try it here: http://apps.facebook.com/jello-friends/ (you’ll need a Facebook account)
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Entries in this series:
  1. Review: Facebook Graph API Book
  2. Putting Your Flash Application on Facebook (iFrame)

Posted on February 24th, 2011
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QucikTip: Trace an Array With Correct Formatting

This entry is part of a series, Quick Tips»

If you’re using arrays to dynamically store information that you need to embed in your project later on, I got just the thing for you: A class that will keep the formatting of the array!
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Posted on February 1st, 2011
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QuickTip: Inline If-Then-Else Statement

This entry is part of a series, Quick Tips»

If you have to do a simple If-Then-Else Statement, it can be tedious to do it this way:

var answer:String;
 
if ( isCreative)
{
	answer = "Aww.. I don't know what to do!";
}
else
{
	answer = "Ha, I know just what I'm going to do!";
}

Here is the easy way:

var answer:String = isCreative ? "Aww.. I don't know what to do!" : "Ha, I know just what I'm going to do!";

This is only really useful for simple things, so if you’re checking lots of conditions or performing lots of operations inside the curly brackets, it might be not be a good idea to use this!

Posted on January 24th, 2011
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Preview: Facebook Graph API Book

As you might have heard Michael James Williams just published his first book; Facebook Graph API Development with Flash


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Posted on January 17th, 2011
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Rant: Don’t call Mouse.hide() each frame!

Here is a little rant!

If you’re using a custom cursor, don’t freaking call Mouse.hide() each frame!
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Posted on January 13th, 2011
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Creating Gradients With AS3

I wrote an article for ActiveTuts+ about creating gradients with code.

It features an explanation of all the different parameters you can use, as well as an interactive app that lets you play around with them.

So go check it out here.

Posted on November 23rd, 2010
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