30 Oct

Coding Flash Tower Defence Games - Pathfinding or Waypoints?

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?   Let’s see what the good [...]

Posted in Flash Games, Tips by: Dave
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12 Jul

Backups save lives.

A simple blog post after I found one of the posts on this site mysteriously missing, I am one lucky ducky to have backed up my content.
When it comes to Flash, whenever I feel I have accomplished something (Added another working function, finished a particularly intricate animated sequence) I save the file as another version.   [...]

Posted in Tips, gotoAndBlog(); by: Dave
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