Archive for August, 2008

11 Aug

Fishy - The most infuriating Flash game that you have to play.

I’ve been playing Fishy whenever the Tower Defense gaming is thin on the ground, and it is one of those games you can just pick up and play.
The concept is that you are a fish. You eat fish to grow, and avoid bigger fish to stay alive. Touch a bigger fish [...]

10 Aug

Tutorial - Importing an external lolcat (image) into Flash!

Bringing external images into flash is a really useful thing to be able to do, so let’s get educated!
In this tutorial I’m going to teach you how to click a flash button, then display an image in the same folder as the flash file within the running swf!

09 Aug

Importing PSDs - Save yourself hours of Copy & Pasting!

I was creating a flash gallery for my friend after designing it in Photoshop, then when I was importing an individual picture from the .psd, thinking I’d have to copy and paste each individual element on each layer, I noticed the .psd file itself was available for importing.
I tried it, and that little double click [...]

08 Aug

Tutorial - Flash, PHP and MYSQL Integration - Part 1: MYSQL and PHP

Flash is awesome on its own, but its true power lies in its integratability with other mediums - PHP being one of them. And since PHP is fantastically well connected with MYSQL, these three combined can be the key to some highly interactive, involving web content.
The only thing is - how do we [...]