Posts Tagged ‘ Flash ’

Setting up the Ultimate Flash Development Environment

This guide explains how to set up a Flash and Flex development environment with Eclipse, FDT, Flash Builder and a couple of other editors that you want for ActionScript coding and Flash development with style! This guide is based on Windows because that’s what I’m using but I’m sure you Mac and Linux guys can [ READ MORE ]

From the Labs: Tetragon Tile Engine Early Preview

An early tech demo of the tetragonLib Tile Engine on which I restarted work on recently again. Click the image to view. There’s not much interaction yet though. You can scroll around with the cursor keys and apart from that open the Rhombus App Framework built-in debug console with F8 and the FPS monitor with [ READ MORE ]

Flash for big Games?

  • August 26th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Even though I love ActionScript more than my daily meal I’ve recently started to think about if the Flash Platform is actually the right stuff for developing big games. Most Flash game developers write small-scale games for the web which is totally fine and I too like to write a small coffee-break game sometimes but [ READ MORE ]

RPG Design: Choosing the right Graphical Projection

I’ve been designing on a rather ambitious Role-Playing game project since a while now (in fact quite a long while but I’m not in hurry to finish it anytime soon) and while I’m in the process of working out the story, technical details like the combat mechanics, skill system etc. and creating interesting characters I [ READ MORE ]

ActionScript: Beaten like a ginger stepchild

  • August 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Recently there has been a lot of uproar about ActionScript from some of the more nominated ActionScript developers. People like Joa Ebert, Nicolas Canasse, Andre Michelle and Peter Elst spoke off their dissatisfaction about the current state of ActionScript, that’s it’s stuck in the middle of nowhere, that Adobe isn’t open enough about their plans [ READ MORE ]

FDT Template: Quick-create Child DisplayObject

  • July 18th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Let’s burrow some in my FDT templates crate … how often do you have to add a child display object to another display object? If the answer is ‘very often’ then this small FDT template might save you some time. ${property} = new ${cursor}; addChild(${property}); It’s very simple but effective. Usage: Let’s for example name this template “newDisplayObject” [ READ MORE ]

AIR needs GPU support!

  • June 24th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Imagine you’re writing an AIR-based game that uses fullscreen at a rather high resolution and a full-frame rendering engine like, say, PV3D and you find out that AIR can’t really handle this. After a lot of research it turns out that there seems to be no way in an AIR app to use the GPU mode [ READ MORE ]

Setting up Eclipse for Flash Developers

  • April 12th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

I’ve been using Eclipse and FDT for several years now to develop Flash (and Flex) applications but I never really managed to set up Eclipse to exactly fit my needs. Either some desired tools were missing or I installed plug-ins that slowed down Eclipse with a truck load of stuff that I never need. So today [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3.1 Update

  • April 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Although Alcon version 4 is currently under development I’ve decided to release a small update for Alcon 3, version 3.1 since I’ve received a code signing certificate from Adobe and wanted to keep up with re-releasing the now-signed application on the AIR Market Place. Besides that Alcon is now code-signed there is exactly one new feature [ READ MORE ]

Customizing toString()

  • September 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

When writing classes for a framework I usually put a custom toString method into important classes so that debugging becomes easier. Normally they would go like something along the lines of: override public function toString():String { return "[ClassName]"; } … Sometimes adding properties to the returned String that give back information about the class, e.g. override public function toString():String { return [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3 Out Now!

  • August 25th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

It took longer than expected thanks to obstacles like a crashed harddisk and other minorities in between but it’s finally done and I now can announce the immediate availability of Alcon 3! It runs currently on Windows and Mac and hopefully soon on Linux too. When I tested it on Ubuntu it installed and started [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3 Preview

  • August 21st, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

Since so many of you (well, at least four people) are feverishly waiting for the release of Alcon 3 here’s a preview screenshot to comfort your waiting time. The shot shows Alcon’s trace output panel with some bogus Array being traced iteratively and as a hex dump. the top of the window displays Alcon’s new [ READ MORE ]