This article is cross-posted from #AltDevBlogADay. Last month I participated in the Toronto Game Jam, where game developers make a game over one weekend. The game ‘Pileup’ was made that way, with most coding done during the TOJam. This is a detailed postmortem of the game ‘Pileup’. You can read more about my TOJam experience [...]
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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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Flash 3D API in the current flash player (10.1) is very limited, and is no more than a basic perspective drawing. However, it is perfectly suitable for putting flat 2D objects in 3D space – to create what is often called ‘flying postcards’. Before FP10, Flying postcards used to be very difficult to code, but nowadays it [...]
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Its not often that I get a client’s game released. Few times in the past I have worked on games that never saw the light of day – and this isn’t one of them. So I’m taking the opportunity to show off a project I’m involved in that got published recently as a Facebook game. [...]
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