http://www.gotoandblog.com A blog about Flash games, Flash animations, Flash tutorials and Flash websites Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:01:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey guys! I haven't been posting on gotoAndBlog lately because I've been concentrating my efforts on my electronic music blog boyinaband instead. My plan is to get that off the ground as a strong community of musicians wishing to learn and improve their abilities, then once that is substantial enough I hope ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2009/07/gotoandblog-blogging-hiatus/ Okay, there are a ton of reasons to choose a platform for writing a program, but this one is the reason Flash is numero uno when it comes to Internet Applications... Check out this link: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/ 99% of the internet have flash. Woah. The internet is ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/11/why-flash-is-the-best-platform-to-develop-web-apps-and-games/ I have been working on a rhythm game that combines sequencing with looping and I have to say that flash is one of the most rhythmically challenged things I've ever come into contact with, including the drummer from my first band... but I have found some ways around it! My initial ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/11/flash-dont-got-no-rhythm-making-an-accurate-tempo-system-with-actionscript/ When it comes to programming a tower defence game, you have a choice to make (Well, you have loads of choices, but this is a pretty big one) - Should I use a pathfinding algorithm to give the enemies their sense of direction, or pre-program in a set of Waypoints?   ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/10/coding-flash-tower-defence-games-pathfinding-or-waypoints/ Tower Defense, Rhythm game, scrolling beat 'em up, platformer and shoot 'em up.   It's all here folks! Tower Defense Game Tutorial (E.g. Xeno Tactic): http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2007/10/06/make-a-flash-game-like-flash-element-tower-defense-part-1/ Rhythm Game Tutorial (E.g. Flash Flash Revolution): http://www.mrsunstudios.com/2008/08/tutorial-make-a-rhythm-game-in-as2/ Scrolling beat 'em up (E.g. Streets of Rage): http://www.gotoandplay.it/_articles/2006/06/beatemup.php Platformer (E.g. Sonic the Hedgehog): http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/platform_game.htm Shoot 'em up (E.g. That "kill the teletubbies" game): http://www.sitepoint.com/article/shoot-em-up-game-flash-mx/ They are ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/10/tutorials-for-5-different-flash-game-genres/ 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. ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/08/fishy-the-most-infuriating-flash-game-that-you-have-to-play/ 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! Step 1 - ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/08/tutorial-importing-an-external-lolcat-image-into-flash/ 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, ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/08/importing-psds-save-yourself-hours-of-copy-pasting/ 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 ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/08/tutorial-flash-php-and-mysql-integration-part-1-mysql-and-php/ I have come across a TD game called "Temple Guardian 2" - A sequal to the original TD game in which you defended the temple (Shockingly enough) from a bunch of invading creeps.   Standard Fare, but it was still an engrossing game that took many an hour of my time. TG2, ... http://www.gotoandblog.com/2008/07/the-tower-defense-to-end-all-tower-defense/