Game Profile: Jelly Battle – http://www.jellybattle.com

Jelly Battle was, and still is, one of our most successful games and was definitely the most well-received amongst the gaming community and portal sites. It’s also the one I enjoy playing the most revisiting it over three years on.

Jelly Battle is the sequel to Jelly Jumper, which introduced the flubber-style character and keyboard environment, and took the game to the next… Read the rest

Here’s a tip that I had to resort to the Internets for today – I was trying to get a simple Flash to AIR LocalConnection system working locally but it simply wasn’t working. I hadn’t realised, that tucked away in the Help it says

To avoid specifying the domain name in the send() method, but to indicate that the receiving and sending LocalConnection objects are not… Read the rest

Game Profile: Jelly Jumper – http://www.jellyjumper.com

We made this game back in 2007 but coming back to it now it’s still good fun. You play a little jiggling dude bouncing across a keyboard (game was originally built for Logitech) and your job is need to collect all the green keys.

There are 50 levels to complete, each with a perfect rating to achieve by finishing the level… Read the rest

Not sure why I’ve only just come across this but there’s any an undocumented AS3 function of MovieClip called addFrameScript which turns out to be pretty useful. It allows you to execute any function when the playhead of the MovieClip reaches a certain frame and the arguments a int based on zero-based range for the frame number and a Fuction. For example you can make a class which automatically stops… Read the rest

Game Profile: Freekick Fusion – http://www.freekickfusion.com

A viral football game is always popular with dedicated portals like allfootballgames.co.uk and myfootballgames.co.uk and this multiplayer football game has been one of the successful games we’ve done with several million players over the last 3 years  and has maintained an average of 25,000 multiplayer games played every day.

SINGLE PLAYER: You get 50 seconds to score… Read the rest

Here’s a quick AIR app that allows you to easily crop screenshots and generate thumbnails. Handy if you’re regularly generating thumbnails for a website, just like the one below.

To use it you simply capture a screengrab with the Print Screen key or drag an existing image into the app, then within the application you can drag and resize the highlighted area to the selection you want to output… Read the rest

Sound is something I’ve never really bothered too much about, but now Flash has some powerful abilities in this regard, awesomely demonstrated by HobNox’s Audiotool. So, dipping the metaphorical toe in the water, here’s a boshed together visualiser started with some code from Grant Skinner. It doesn’t use much of the data you have access to but the central burst represents left and right channel peaks and the white burst measures the left and right bass levels. Tune from the brilliant Dub FX.

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For me ActionScript is the best part of the Flash platform and since the advent of AS3 I have begun to imagine how Pinocchio once felt. I’m a real programmer! But just as Pinocchio had to presumably deal with puberty, girls and self-loathing, real programming brings its own complications in way of abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism. For proper programming you need a proper IDE. The Flash authoring IDE is handy… Read the rest