Looks fun and addictive, right? Yeah, just like a real video-game, that’s distributed at retail stores or an online video game shop, like Steam.

But it still doesn’t look that complicated, to be impossible to make in Flash!

In fact, some of the indie game makers actually started their career with Flash. Take Edmund McMillen and his Meatboy series for instance. The first part came to internet as a free flash game with the name Meatboy, the second part was an extra map pack, and now he is releasing a brand new Meatboy game for Steam. Guess what? It’s also made in flash.

So, what makes a good indie game, worth to spend your money on?

First of all, it has to be original, not just another asteroid clone. Or, it could be an asteroid clone, but with an unique twist, that noone has ever seen before… like Shift, a platformer that gives the player an ability to turn the screen upside down and play the level like you’ve never seen it before.

Secondly, it has to be addictive! It needs to have something, to make the player get lots and lots of adrenaline, and keep playing the game.

Thirdly, it doesn’t have to be annoying, or plain stupid, that would make the user curse and throw knives at people.

Or does it? It’s up to you to decide. Experiment with the gameplay, graphics and everything else (if you’re a game developer) and eventually you’ll come up with something interesting and fun.

That’s all for now!

Now, if you’re looking for a flash banner for your site, you can order one at the cheap prices right here, on this site!

Choose from normal or interactive banner types, fill out the forms, give the basic idea of how should it all look like, and wait for a reply!

Note, that all the previews I will send you will be trial and will only work for a few days. A full, working version of the banner will be sent to you after the purchase.

Have a nice day!

Flash 8 Action Script Bible

Packed with hands-on instruction and step-by-step tutorials, the Flash X Actionscript Bible is everything you need to take your Flash applications to the next level. Starting with the basics, Flash gurus Robert Reinhardt and Joey Lott guide you through the ins and outs of actionscript and will have you building your very own dynamic, data-driven Flash animations in no time. Coverage includes: Actionscript variables, expressions, and functions Working with Objects Using Components Building your Own Components Interoperating with JavaScript Developing for handheld devices Connecting to Data Sources Remoting Creating games Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Getting Started with Flash 8 ActionScript ? Introducing Flash 8 ? Learning ActionScript Basics ? Constructing ActionScript ? Working with Functions ? Getting to Know Objects ? Debugging and Error Handling Part II: Using Core Classes ? Working with Arrays ? Using Numbers ? Using Math ? Working with Dates and Times ? Working with Strings ? Applying Regular Expressions Part III: Working with Display Objects ? Using Display Objects ? Working with Movie Clips ? Drawing Programmatically ? Transforming Colors ? Applying Filters ? Using the Bitmap API ? Working with Text Fields and Selection ? Formatting Text Part IV: Scripting Player Control ? Managing Mouse and Key Interactivity ? Working with the Stage ? Using Context Menus ? Understanding the Capabilities and Security Objects ? Printing Part V: Working with Media ? Programming Sound ? Managing Video Part VI: Using Components ? Using UI Components ? Styling UI Components ? Creating Custom Components Part VII: Managing Data ? Using Shared Objects ? Understanding LocalConnection Objects ? Programming with the XML and LoadVars Classes ? Using Persistent Socket Communications ? Using Web Services ? Introducing Flash Remoting ? Managing File Uploads and Downloads Part VIII: Working with Flash in Context ? Working with Flash in the Web Browser ? Making Movies Accessible and Universal ? Scripting for the Flash Stand-Alone Player Index Robert Reinhardt, co-author of the Flash 5 Bible, is co-founder of the MAKERS (www.theMakers.com ), a graphics and multimedia company whose clients include Warner Brothers, independent artists, and nonprofit organizations. Joey Lott began his professional Flash career at Clear Digital, a small web design company which quickly began to develop for a new, niche market by catering to entertainment companies with their trackable Flash eCards. Today, Joeys clients include Sony, Disney, Warner Brothers, and more. Flash X Actionscript Bible is a must have for Flash developers looking to take their animations to the next level, with sophisticated interaction, and data-driven content. Readers of this title should have prior experience with Macromedia Flash.

Flash and XML A Developer’s Guide

Book Description
Flash and XML shows designers and developers how to integrate these powerful technologies and create dynamic web sites. With this thoroughly readable guide you take Flash to the next level, interfacing ActionScript with XML. Empower your Flash projects with dynamic content, backend databases, server-based applications, peer-to-peer, and more.

Flash and XML is a tutorial that brings you up to speed on both technologies, offering clear and concise explanations. In addition, this book presents a number of important web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, and sockets. It shows how to work with these technologies to create n-tier, interactive systems that access the full resources of the Internet.

Book Details
Author:Dov Jacobson and Jesse Jacobson
No of Pages: 368 pages
Press: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition
Dated:November 20, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201729202
ISBN-13: 978-0201729207

download: Flash and XML: A Developer’s Guide Ebook
password: http://www.stardesign.web.id

In this Adobe Flash video tutorial you will learn that how to make the slider throw physics for flash player and how to make the action script for this slider throw. This tutorial give you full help on how to make this kind of slider throw flash media loader. So let’s see the video and learn that how to make the slider throw in Adobe Flash.

In this Adobe Flash video tutorial you will learn that how to create the content for the flash player using some of the basic and advanced features. So let’s see the video tutorial and learn that how to make the content for flash player.

I’ve heard some people talking about if CS5 supports Actionscript 2, and should they upgrade if they are used to AS2.

What would be the point? All the new features Adobe is adding to Flash are only for AS3, here, let me explain:
There are 3 languages at the moment used in flash – AS, AS2 and AS3.

AS and AS2 are not too different, and they run on AVM (Actionscript virtual machine). What does that mean? That means that the technique flash uses to show the movie when it’s played is the same Actionscript 1 & 2.

AS3 runs on AVM2 (sometimes AVM+) that uses a complete different way to show us the file, and also supports such features like bones, 3d rotation, physics (CS5) and more.

So, if you’re used to AS2 – don’t bother upgrading to CS5, unless you are going to learn Actionscript 3.

Am I right?

How to Rip TM Dynamic Flash Templates

What you need:

Sample dynamic flash template from website
Sothink SWF Decompiler
Adobe  Flash

1. browse or search your favorite dynamic flash template in  website. If you got one… click the “view” link and new window will open with dynamic flash.. loading…

2. If the movie fully loaded, click View -> Source in your browser to bring the source code of the current page and in the source code, search for “IFRAME” and you will see the iframe page. In this example were going to try the 7045 dynamic template. get the URL(ex.
http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/7000/7045.html) then paste it to your browser… easy eh? wait! dont be to excited… erase the .html and change it to swf then press enter then you’ll see the flash movie again icon_smile.gif.

3. copy the URL and download that SWF file.. use your favorite download manager.. mine I used flashget icon_smile.gif NOTE: dont close the browser we may need that later on.

4. open your Sothink SWF decompiler… click “Quick Open” then browse where you download your SWF/movie file. Click Export FLA to export your SWF to FLA, in short, save it as FLA icon_smile.gif

5. Open your Macromedia FLash and open the saved FLA file. press Control+Enter or publish the file… then wallah! the output window will come up with “Error opening URL blah blah blah…” dont panic, that error will help you where to get the remaining files.

6. Copy the first error, example: “7045_main.html” then go back to your browser and replace the 7045.swf to 7045_main.html press enter and you’ll see a lot of text… nonsense text icon_lol.gif that text are your contents…

NOTE: when you save the remaining files dont forget to save with underscore sign (_) in the front on the file without the TM item number (e.g. 7045) if it is html save it as “_main.html” and same with the image save it as “_works1.jpg” save them where you save the FLA and SWF files. Continue browsing the file inside Flash application so you can track the remaining files… do the same until you finish downloading all the remaining the files.

Enjoy !!

I must say that at the moment I know almost nothing about 3d, and I’m starting with the beginner tutorials. So far I’ve seen three flash 3d engines:

Away3D – a powerful, widely-used and good looking 3d engine, free to use.
http://away3d.com

Papervision3D – a clean, fast, popular 3d flash engine.
http://blog.papervision3d.org/

Alternativa3D – probably the most powerful 3d engine in flash, created by russian programmers, which is still in development. However, it won’t be free.
http://alternativaplatform.com/ru/alternativa3d/

That’s it for now.

Have a nice day everyone!

Here’s a rather interesting article I came by.
So, Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight?

The article gives a few technical differencies for Flash and Silverlight, however, I found the programming feature the most interesting.

The scripting language of Flash is Actionscript, that comes with ‘huge, powerful class library for developing online browser-hosted applications and stand-alone desktop applications’.
It can interract with other data bases and languages like JS, XML, PHP, ASP and others.

Completely different with Silverlight. There you can choose from among a number of languages such as Visual C#.Net and Visual Basic.Net, including client-side scripting with JavaScript. C# and VB.NET can be used to write managed code that runs on and uses all of the enhancements and capabilities of Microsoft’s .NET framework.

Why is that important? Firstly, most of programmers are already used to C based scripting, when AS is a completely unique language used only in Flash (although it is based on C, it’s still different), secondly, in my opinion the languages Silverlight uses are more powerful, and programmers can make things that they have always wanted to do in flash. Who knows, maybe one day we will see Halo played from a browser.

However, at the moment Silverlight has alot of cons. For example, it doesn’t compress it’s export files, it only (fully) supports JPG and PNG image formats, it doesn’t work on all OS, and more.

In this Adobe Flash video tutorial you will learn that how to make the flash player inside of Adobe flash using the actionscript and a drag and drop feature by which a user can drag a flv file and drop it on to the flash player to play this file. So let’s see the video tutorial and learn that how to make the drag and drop flash player and how to write down action script for this flash player.

تلویزیون سنتی، تلویزیونی است که یک گروه که تعداد آن ها بسیار اندک است برای گروه دیگر، که تعداد بسیار بالایی (شاید به جمعیت یک کشور) هستند، برنامه می سازند. کاملا عقلانی است که آن گروه اندک قدرت ساختن برنامه برای هر سلیقه ای را ندارند. بنابراین جامعه به سوی شیوه هایی دیگر برای ساخت برنامه می روند. شیوه هایی که هر بیننده بنا به سلیقه های خود برنامهٔ خود را انتخاب کند.

این روزها در جوامع غربی این اتفاق افتاده است، یعنی هر کس به سلیقهٔ خود برنامه مورد علاقه خود را می بیند. یکی از تلویزیون های معروف نامش youtube است. در این سایت هر بیننده این قدرت را دارد که برنامهٔ مورد علاقه خود را در این سایت پیدا کند، آن را ببیند، نظر خود را به صورت تصویری، متنی یا حتی صوتی بدهد، حتی بیننده می تواند برای خود برنامه بسازد و دوستان و کسانی که علاقه به دیدن برنامه او دارند، آن را ببینند.

این کارها با رفتن به سایت یوتوب عملی می شود. اما اگر شما از آن دسته افرادی هستید که علاقه ای به رفتن در سایت را ندارید می توانید از نرم افزار هایی که برای دسکتاپ ساخته شده است استفاده کنید. این نرم افزار دارای دو مزیت هستند:

1. دیگر نیازی نیست شما از نرم افزار های غیر آزادی، همچون ادوبی فلش استفاده کنید.
2. با نرم افزار های دسکتاپ شما چیزهای اضافی همچون متن سایت، مرورگر و آن چیزی که نیاز نیست را نخواهید دید و این مانیتور را بیشتر شبیه تلویزیون خواهد کرد که برای کاربران محیطی دوستانه تر است.

یکی از نرم افزار های آزاد، minitube نام دارد که دارای مجوز GPLv3 است. در حال حاضر این نرم افزار برای سیستم عامل های گنو/لینوکس و Mac OS X وجود دارد، اما تلاش هایی جهت آماده کردن این نرم افزار برای سیستم عامل ویندوز هم صورت گرفته است.

طریقه نصب این نرم افزار در سیستم عامل اوبونتو 9.10 به طریق زیر است:

اضافه کردن PPA زیر به منابع نرم افزاری، که آن را در منوی System -> Administration -> Software Sources خواهید یافت.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/neversfelde/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

سپس رها کردن خط زیر در ترمینال و فشردن کلید Enter

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 0331274D

در آخر هم به روز کردن منابع نرم افزاری و نصب برنامهٔ خوب minitube:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install minitube

سایت سازنده نرم افزار minitube

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There is bug in adobe flash player the #added to the window title in IE
Steps to reproduce:
Step 1: Run the url in your IE Browser www.adobe.com/#bug

Observe that Adobe#bug is appended to the window title
if you click once on flash observe that #bug is appended to the window title

This may be related to flash being dynamically inserted into the page, I don’t know, but it’s quite annoying; if you insert several flash movies into a page, or reset the flash movie a few times, the hash is appended several times, or it over-writes the title entirely. like Adobe#bug or #bug

Solution:
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I observed that the #data is append to the window title when flash movie is loading and when we click on flash movie the #data is overites the window title.

How can we solved this bug?
we can solve this by using javascript or action scripting.

Javcascript : By using setTimer we can set the title every time

Action Script: call a javascript method from action script when mouseevent is triggered.(i.e MOUSE_UP Event).Please see the following code u will get an idea.

addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, function ():void {
ExternalInterface.call(’setTitle’);
});

function setTitle(){
document.title = “BugFixed”;
}

Nesta semana a Adobe liberou os novos betas do Flash Player 10.1 que foi apresentado na MAX Conference 2009 no início de Outubro deste ano.

Os novos recursos do Flash Player foram desenvolvidos para oferecer uma reprodução mais eficiente de conteúdo, tirando proveito da aceleração de hardware. Estes recursos foram sugestões indicadas pelos maiores desenvolvedores de smartphones e netbooks do mundo.

Apesar de ser apenas uma versão beta, o produto já demonstra muita estabilidade e um gigantesco potencial, principalmente para usuários do Mac que passaram por experiências de reprodução ruins nas versões anteriores.

No caso de seu computador possuir uma GPU compatível com ele, a reprodução de vídeos em H.264 pelo plugin será muito mais suave e bem definida, com reduções em uso de CPU e RAM, tempo de inicialização e consumo de energia.

In this Adobe Illustrator video tutorial you will learn that how to make a watch in Adobe Illustrator and then import it into Adobe Flash to animate this clock and using action script inside of Adobe Flash. So let’s see the video and learn that how to make the animated clock using adobe illustrator and flash.

Article by: Renaldo Creative

Site: http://raindropgraphx.com

Linux is an amazing operation system. But most people think the design career is over, when they switch to Linux. Most designer use Corel and Adobe software. Below you will find good Alternative for Linux.

01. Photoshop | Gimp
02. Illustrator | Inkscape
03. InDesign Scribus
04. Dreamweaver | NVU
05. Internet Explorer | Firefox
06. Microsoft Office | Open Office
07. Quick Book | GNU Cash
08. Winrar | Pea Zip
09. Win Zip | 7 Zip
10. Flash | Flash4Linux

Note a lot of Windows programs can be run on Linux with third party software.

Wine Hq http://winehq.com
Codeweaver http://www.codeweavers.com
Virtual Box http://virtualbox.org
Win4lin http://win4lin.com

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Esta es una versión preliminar de Adobe Flash Player® 10.1 software para Windows, Macintosh y Linux.Está disponible para los desarrolladores para probar su contenido y asegurarse de que las nuevas características funcionen como se espera,el contenido existente trabaja correctamente y no hay problemas de compatibilidad.

Download page

Nada para 64bit!!.

This book is for developers who are building Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 applications and want to use components to speed development. You should already be familiar with developing applications in Flash and writing ActionScript.

If you are less experienced with writing ActionScript, you can add components to a document, set their parameters in the Property inspector or Component inspector, and use the Behaviors panel to handle their events. For example, you could attach a Go To Web Page behavior to a Button component that opens a URL in a web browser when the button is clicked without writing any ActionScript code.

If you are a programmer who wants to create more robust applications, you can create components dynamically, use ActionScript to set properties and call methods at runtime, and use the listener event model to handle events.

Download: Download Components Flash.pdf
Pssword: http://www.stardesign.web.id

Adobe Flash (dahulu bernama Macromedia Flash) adalah salah satu perangkat lunak komputer yang merupakan produk unggulan Adobe Systems.  Adobe Flash digunakan untuk membuat gambar vektor maupun animasi gambar tersebut.  Berkas yang dihasilkan dari perangkat lunak ini mempunyai file extension *.swf dan dapat diputar di penjelajah web yang telah dipasangi Adobe Flash Player.  Flash menggunakan bahasa pemrograman bernama ActionScript yang muncul pertama kalinya pada Flash 5.  Sebelum tahun 2005, Flash dirilis oleh Macromedia.  Flash 1.0 diluncurkan pada tahun 1996 setelah Macromedia membeli program animasi vektor bernama FutureSplash. Versi terakhir yang diluncurkan di pasaran dengan menggunakan nama ‘Macromedia’ adalah adalah Macromedia Flash 8. Pada tanggal 3 Desember 2005 Adobe Systems mengakuisisi Macromedia dan seluruh produknya, sehingga nama Macromedia Flash berubah menjadi Adobe Flash.

Flash tidak hanya digunakan untuk membuat animasi saja, tetapi dapat juga membuat game atau website sekalipun (bagi yang sudah professional tentunya).  Untuk versi Adobe Flash saat ini yang terbaru adalah Adobe Flash versi 10.0 atau yang lebih dikenal dengan Adobe Flash CS4.  Fitur yang baru dari versi ini adalah Bone System, yang memungkinkan pembuatan pergerakan animasi dengan menambahkan engsel tulang manusia, sehingga membuat animasi pergerakan anggota badan manusia pun menjadi semakin mudah.

Dikutip dari Wikipedia dan Adobe.com