I Started reading Jordan Mechner’s development journals on the making of Prince of Persia, just after he released the source code of the original game on github. Jordan Mechner is a game industry pioneer – he created and coded Karateka in the early 80s for the Apple II as a one man team and made it [...]
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Targeting a game to a specific flash player version can be useful for many reasons. Since Player 11 was released there where many features added, but there are a few issues to consider. For a game that runs on a [desktop] browser, player update may be required. This should not be a problem, except for some [...]
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Over the last few years sprite-sheet animation gained popularity among game developers. It offers some real advantages over movie clips – lighter and potentially faster performance, with the added bonus of code portability. If you plan to deploy your game on Android and iOS as well, this is definitely the way to go. I found that most [...]
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On part 1 of this series, I outlined the basic principles of handling the content pipeline, and how the process should work. To continue, we move on to building the level. As mentioned on part 1, I use the Flash IDE (CS4 or CS5) because of its support for automation and custom commands. Basic familiarity with Flash is [...]
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