Category Archives: Flash

Golden Eggs: Build a Flash Game Using Twitter API Calls

In this Tutorial I will walk you through some of the uses of the Twitter REST API, and how you can use it to create a game that not only displays real-time Tweets, but uses them to generate objects the player can interact with.

Quick Tip: How to Debug an AS3 Error #2044

In this Quick Tip, we’ll take on run-time Error 2044, the un-handled IO error. It’s actually very simple, but it plagues even experienced developers, so we’ll go in-depth and turn everyone here into IO error ninjas.

Create an Atari Inspired Boxing Game With AS3 – Active Premium

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In this Premium Tutorial, you’ll learn to create an entertaining retro game using Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Check out the demo – the result is based on the classic Boxing for the Atari.

Understanding Date(): Making a Calendar in AS3

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Today we’ll build a fully functional calendar widget using AS3. It’s not rocket science, just an excellent example of using the Date class, which can handle all the complexity of extracting times, dates, months and years. We are also going to use some Flash components, and make sure that this calendar is portable to Flash Builder, FlashDevelop, and so on.

Create an Animated Car Banner using Flash CS5

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In this Tutorial, you will learn how to create an animated banner using Flash CS5. You will learn how to create a car moving on a road with its tires spinning.

Quick Tip: The Singleton Pattern

In this Quick Tip we are going to talk about the Singleton design pattern and how it can help you to optimize your code when you need exactly one instance of a class.

How to make an animated Gif with captain amercia

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In this flash Tutorial for beginners, we will take a look at how to make a animated gif with one of my favorite marrvel comic characters, Captain America. You can of course repeat this Tutorial with any of your favourite comic characters from popular series such as Bleach, Naruto etc.

Flash AS3 Tutorial Rolling Newspaper Effect

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his is the last part of our Flash 3D rotations Tutorial. We will conclude with implementation of newspaper rotation that can be seen in our WordPress 3D Banner rotator. Please check other chapters of our Tutorial to see how implementation of 3D engine is done.

Create a Nifty Polaroid Photo Viewer With Flash and Photoshop

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Ever wanted to make a manageable and beautiful photo viewer app? In this Tutorial, I’ll show you how to design and code a nifty Polaroid photo viewer, focusing on the design and tweening.