Monthly Archive for May, 2009

MGAS3FD 6: Click it like it’s hot

Published on May 16, 2009 in Making Games in Actionscript 3.0, Tutorials and code. 17 Comments

Hello there. This is the sixth part of the Making Games in ActionScript 3 using FlashDevelop

By now we’ve got almost all the basic building blocks to make a simple game. All that is missing is how to get some input. Last time we touched on it a little bit using the mouseX and mouseY properties.
Those are the most straightforward to get at, but other inputs aren’t very complicated either. Let’s start with the mouse button.

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Another forty bytes the dust.

Published on May 10, 2009 in 4k and code. 5 Comments

I really should let this whole 4k game thing go. But as I was sitting on the train today, idly hacking away at a completely different game I remembered a curious thing that I didn’t have time to investigate then. The mysterious bytes.

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