Things seem to have been pretty quiet on the Flash game development side here recently but there are a few projects coming to completion in the background, one is an arcade game set in space, the other is a puzzle game with cartoon like characters. These have unfortunately taken something of a backseat recently mostly [read more...]

We recently got the opportunity to talk to Javier Lazaro, from ClockworkMonster Games, about what it’s like being a casual games developer, and get an insight into some of the ClockworkMonster classics and a peek into the future for Clockwork Monster. Hello, Who is ClockworkMonster Games and what do you do? My name is Javier [read more...]

Whilst working on a social media project for work, and being a curious software developer, it seemed like a good idea to have a go at creating an online Flash based casual game to better understand the mechanics of the online casual game environment. During this exercise, and after having produced a few other titles, [read more...]

I recently bought a new book to help with my Flash development project titled Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, by Mark Schaeffer. With the nature and planned format of the book it’s not so much of a straight read but more of a dip in book for appropriate techniques. As such, especially [read more...]

I guess this article should really be titled Developing An Application Using Flash And AS 3: Part Five: Distributing an online Flash game, however that sounds a bit of a mouthful. In my quest to put together a flash game (see Developing An Application Using Flash And AS 3: Part Four), I have spent a [read more...]

I recently completed the Pairs Game I was developing as a project in Flash. It was a fun and interesting project to do and I owe a lot of thanks to my play tester at home for spotting strange issues and suggesting improvements. If you have never played pairs the general idea is that a [read more...]

Searching through pages of textual information trying to find connections and relationships between information items is time consuming and not very intuitive. Being able to visualise information and explore links can speed up the process and often lead to interesting concepts being brought to light – it’s also way more interesting than lists. It was [read more...]

Project Progress So far Welcome to the fourth instalment, and probably penultimate episode, of this development project of a game using Flash and ActionScript 3 – to catch up read Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3. I have been reviewing the design plan so far – the welcome screen is in but [read more...]