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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With the recent release of AIR 2.7, I thought it would be a good idea to return to the basics of efficient code. While the performance is greatly improved on mobile and desktop, it’s still the coders responsibility to stick to best practices and avoid performance killers. The same is true for Flash inside a browser (Flash Player [...]
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In a previous post, Flying Postcards and Tweening – 3D Billboard Tutorial demonstrated the use of tweening 3D rotation properties to achieve 3D-like effect. This time I aim at creating a more complex fly-in of an image in 3D space by leveraging 2D techniques like blitting on top of a rotating postcard to achieve a complex 3D effect.
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There are many components out there to use in a game for displaying score. But can any of them do the job in 15 lines or less? The following code makes use of a tweener. Tweeners are extremely powerful, and typically used to move objects, but can do so much more. The first thing to [...]
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