Extended Module Player in AS3
Music and sound are the most file size bloating assets when making flash games. If you want your game to have a low file size, you need to get rid of >5MB mp3 files. So I decided to write an extended module player library for my game. The XM format is a tracker format introduced [...]
In: music, programming · Tagged with: AS3, FlashDevelop, Milkytracker, Module, music
Lights Off, Spot On!
I’ve just finished a plain lighting system for my sidescroller. It is possible to place custom sprites as lights into the scene. Those sprites are used to render a lightmap which represents the result of all lightsources in the current scene. Now I can create scary places for the player
In: games, programming · Tagged with: Failsafe, flash, FlashDevelop, flixel, light, Vessel
A Little Flash Sidescroller
I’m still fiddling around with flixel. It’s a lot of fun and you can see the progress after every hour. Currently it looks like this is going to be my main project, since it is progresing so fast and my motivation to finish it increases every evening I spend with it. It is going to [...]
In: games, programming · Tagged with: Failsafe, flash, FlashDevelop, flixel, games, Vessel
My New Friend: Flixel
This Month was quite stressful for which reason there wasn’t much activity here. I hope I will have some time for making games in the following days. Speaking of which — I had a little time to play around with the flixel library by Adam “Atomic” Saltsman. It’s very impressive how quick you can achieve [...]
In: games, programming · Tagged with: Adam Atomic, flash, FlashDevelop, flixel, games
Download is an Obstacle
The choice of developing Jester Chip with a ready-made point&click framework is discarded. Those who spend some time on playing short indie games on platforms like Newgrounds, Armor Games or Kongregate probably appreciate the fact, that they don’t have to download executables to their bulky file system. Well, I do. I want to facilitate access [...]
In: games, programming · Tagged with: adventure, flash, FlashDevelop, Jester Chip
