Flash MindMeld – What Makes or Breaks a Great Flash Game?

I just wanted to let you know about Flash MindMeld.  60 Flash game experts share their opinion, they have 60 seconds each.

It features some great and big names: Tom Fulp, Ben Olding, Colin Northway, Adam Atomic, Lachhh (Berzerk), Chris & Stephen Harris (Ninja Kiwi), most of the people from ArmorGames, Greg & Jim from Kongregate, Chris from FGL. Just to mention a few!

You can download a MP3 with the entire thing (you save a lot of clicking and waiting) from here.

Posted on February 15th, 2011
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QucikTip: Trace an Array With Correct Formatting

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

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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QuickTip: Avoid Firefox popup-blocker When Using navigateToUrl

Being faced with this when you’re trying to launch an other site is not good! Read on to learn how to fix it.

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Posted on December 7th, 2010
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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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Batch Prefix Class Linkage

I wrote an extension for flash, that allows you to batch prefix class linkage. Fx “Symbol 1” can be prefixed with “lib” and becomes exported as “lib.Symbol1”.
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Posted on November 12th, 2010
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Using my Hit Class for Buttons

Looking for a quick way to manage mouse interactions with movie clip buttons? I’ve got just the thing for you.

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Posted on October 7th, 2010
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New Theme and an Irritating bug

Hey, so guess what? I’ve got a new theme :)

I’ve actually been spending some time making to get this theme work, as it wasn’t designed for WP, and the port wasn’t complete. I think it looks a lot better now and I almost happy with the results.

Because, as you might have guessed, there’s a problem with this theme, and I simply can’t find the reason for it. When I want to display code on more than one line, there’s created an empty space on 13 px under the codebox and I simply can’t get rid of it. I’ve literally spend hours trying to remove it and even posted on the WordPress support forum. But no luck, it’s still there. If you have any ideas of how to get rid of it, please let me know.

// See that irritating scroll bar on the right ?
// I don't like that at all!
// Please help me!

// this is a very long line to prove that the CSS property overflow is not set to 'scroll'. But is in fact set to auto.

Posted on October 2nd, 2010
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