For quite some time now, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to get lines to “move” in AS3. By this, I don’t mean simple rotation and skewing of an existing line, but actually changing the line structure: length, thickness, etc. The challenge first became noteworthy when I was working on my Tower [...]

Those of you who may have followed my previous Flash AS3 Slideshow post may have noted that it was rather limiting in function. While there are sometimes valid uses for a slideshow to statically transition between images (whether or not those images are dynamically loaded), there are typically much more useful things we can do [...]

So, many of you have sent me emails or asked me in person about how, exactly, to get started playing with the Flex SDK without having to pour any money into unnecessary resources or IDEs. First, let me say that purchasing and using Flex Builder will be one of the best investments you can make [...]

Over the past year or so, I have been responsible for developing and maintaining a JavaScript Slideshow component for our internal CMS. With the similarities between JavaScript and Actionscript, I have wanted to implement this slideshow in a manner consistent with the flexibility and usage of the JavaScript version. The biggest difference is that the [...]

Well, OK, it’s not much of a Phase 1 – more like Phases 1, 2 and 3 all rolled into one simple demo, but for my purposes, the name will suffice. Many different ideas and techniques have been rolling around in my head for months, and I finally decided to try and find a simple [...]

Embedding fonts has been a bane to me for some time, and I finally spent the time to find both the easiest and most comprehensive way to embed needed fonts into a SWF using AS3 only. As always, I try to keep the demos here as lightweight as possible, and I have tried to keep [...]

Well, at the risk of sensory overload today – it’s my blog after all – I decided to post one more version of my map handler. This one adds in the classic mouse hover scroll effect at the edges of the map. I did try to make it a bit more usable, though, by calculating [...]

So, a really quick update post here. Upon publishing my previous post, I received some great feedback from gamer friends who thought a good way to improve the interaction would be to allow for dragging the preview marker around to update the viewport in addition to simply clicking. After giving this some thought and suppressing [...]

I have been working on some ideas for a TD game that would be both entertaining and original, and I feel that – with the help of a couple friends’ input – I’m on the way to something worth developing. Since I have already put together much of the “guts” for a TD game, I [...]

Developers who have been using Google Analytics for any time can appreciate the flexibility and power behind some of the graphing software it offers. I recently found myself wondering just how they get the incredibly usable effect they have, so I began tinkering with some Actionscript and soon found myself with a very workable base [...]