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

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

FlashDevelop

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