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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Flash Gaming Summit Session Recordings are live now!

Where you at the Flash Gaming Summit last Sunday? Sadly, I wasn’t, but I was able to follow most of the event though the live stream.

Now the session recordings are put up on the web, you can find the links to them here: http://mochiland.com/articles/flash-gaming-summit-wrap-up-session-recordings-photos-more

Currently, the link to “Getting Your Flash Game Sponsored” redirects to the talk by pop cap (The Evolution of Flash Games at PopCap and How They Came to Facebook), but let’s hope that gets fixed soon.

To get an overview of the talks, the program is here: http://www.flashgamingsummit.com/program.html

I think I was so lucky being the only one from the live stream chat having their question asked, in the panel discussion of polishing a game. I was quite happy about that :)

One of the speakers, Chris Benjaminsen, the man behind Nonoba, player.IO and Everbody Edits, told the community of Everybody Edits that this game was also nominated for one of the Mochi Awards. The people of this community was so happy about this, that they came into the live stream and spammed the chat with things like: “EE is the best game”, “EE is going to win”, “EE” and so on! This meant that some times no one was able to make a decent conversation, and a couple of times they moderators simply disabled the chat completely! This was both quite fun to watch, but also irritating.

Now I’m off to watch some of the presentations I haven’t seen yet, you should do too!

Posted on March 3rd, 2011
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CS4: Publish for FlashPlayer 10.2

So, flash player 10.2 was just released!

It features StageVideo, Native Mouse Cursor and the ability to view full screen flash content on one screen, while working on the other!

So these are some really cool features! But how do people with CS4 get their hands on these? Adobe is not likely to publish an update to CS4 that enabled us to do this, at least they didn’t with FP 10.1!
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Posted on February 16th, 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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