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Kongregate adds “developer tipping”

Will — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:08:31 +0000

No, It’s nothing like cow tipping. Kongregate has just released a new way developers can earn a little extra cash… with tips. Kongregate is a site devoted to online games, unique in that it doesn’t allow developers to submit games that have in-game ads. It supports game makers through a revenue share model based on ads [...]

Picross flash game, ‘Picross Forever’ released!

Will — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:37:43 +0000

So I’m a little slow with getting this news out but my latest game Picross Forever has now been released to the public! You can play it over at Kongregate by clicking here. Comments and critiques are most welcome.

Introducing Picross Forever

Will — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:36:42 +0000

I’m been a little quiet lately on the blog front as I’ve been working on my latest game, Picross Forever. I’ve been working on this game intermitantly since finishing my previous game, Knight of the Dead. I feel I’ve learnt a lot from developing Knight of the Dead and hopefully it will show when Picross Forever [...]

Flash Player 10 released

Will — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:08:54 +0000

With Adobe Flash CS4 about to be released any day now it’s no surprise that Flash Player 10 has been officially released, surpassing Flash Player 9. Flash Player 10 is sure to bring a new wave of cool and interesting interactions to the web as developers begin to come to gribs with it’s powerful new features [...]

Flash Webcomic

Will — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:54:21 +0000

Came across this on the front page of digg.com today. A funny little webcomic from the guys at xkcd.com

Flash CS4 Feature Video

Will — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:50:24 +0000

By now you are probably aware that Flash CS4 has been ‘officially’ announced along with the rest of Adobe’s Creative suite. I thought I’d just mention a really great feature demonstration video by Lee Brimlow over at gotoandlearn.com. Lee takes us through some of Flash CS4’s newest features such as the new layout, 3D effects and [...]

Monetizing a Flash game with self serve ads. A success?

Will — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:10:27 +0000

Knight of the Dead has been ‘in the wild’ for 5 days now and has received a wide range of exposure. Most interestingly the game was only submitted to newgrounds.com and, at the time of writing, has spread virally to 92 unique domains with 153629 global plays. The fact the game has spread this much [...]

Zombie Game, Knight of the Dead out now!

Will — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:10:59 +0000

After about 5 weeks of development I’m please to announce the release of my first public Flash game Knight of the Dead. Knight of the Dead is a side-scrolling hack and slash fest where the player takes the role of of a Knight who must defend himself against a horde of attacking zombies. Enemies drop money [...]

Sending data with LocalConnection in Flash

Will — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:00:02 +0000

As a follow up to my previous post titled “How to communicate between multiple Flash files with LocalConnection” I’m going to demonstrate a slightly more advanced way of using the LocalConnection object in Flash. Receiving SWF Sending SWF In the above example, click and throw the ball upwards. Now you could be forgiven for thinking we are literally throwing [...]

Trigonometry for Flash: A Visual Reference

Will — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:36:39 +0000

Trigonometry is something any aspiring Flash developer should learn. It is the cornerstone of becoming better at manipulating graphics purely with code. I am certainly not a math guru by any means. I often find myself having to flip through a book or dig through previous projects to find the formula for getting the angle of [...]