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MultiPlayer Flash Game with AS3MUL
I've been seeing a lot of posts around the web the last few days about a new ActionScript 3 library, AS3MUL. The MUL stands for multiuser library. Of course this captured my interest and today I...
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Tutorial: Flash and C++ Native Extension
Last week I decided to look into building a native extension for AIR and was very surprised by the lack of quality resources and tutorials for doing so. I was able to find examples for Android using...
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Tutorial: Terrain Following in Flash
In this tutorial you will learn how to implement a more advanced style of terrain following using Flash and ActionScript 3. Terrain following is a pretty simple concept in a flat or boxy world, but...
View ArticleMultithreading in ActionScript 3.0: A Bad Idea?
One of the most talked about features in the new Flash Player 11.4 beta is the new concurrency model which allows developers to spawn worker threads to handle intensive operations. While many people...
View ArticleCitrus Engine: Box2d Revolving Platform
This class was officially added to the Citrus Engine on November 26, 2012. After seeing Lee Brimelow's tutorial on the Citrus Engine, I was intrigued and decided to play around with it. The engine's...
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Tutorial: Debugging Native Extensions
I've written before about how to create your own native extensions for Adobe AIR, but what if you need to debug your extension? If you're doing anything but the simplest of projects, you're going to...
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Flash: Direct Memory Access via Native Extension
A couple weeks before the Flash Gaming Summit I found an interesting blog post from Colin Northway about managing texture memory in Starling applications. In this post he describes how he forces an...
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Video Tutorial: Intro to Away3D
In this tutorial you will learn how to set up a basic, 3D scene using Away3D. You will load and display terrain, a skybox, an animated 3D model and add user controls for the character and the camera...
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Life After Mochi
As you have probably heard by now, Mochi Media is shutting down. This is very sad news for the Flash community and particularly to myself. As with most things surrounding Flash in the last 10 years or...
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Tutorial: High Score Table with Flash and PHP
In this tutorial we'll take a look at how to build your own high score system using Flash ActionScript 3.0 on the client side and PHP on the server side to handle database tasks. This is meant only as...
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