Really now, why would you need a Keyboard class? Shouldn’t it be good enough to add a key listener…? In some instances yes this would be true. However if you want to keep your code OOP and efficient you should be only listen for a certain set of keys and doing actions […]
Made famous in Pong and other paddle like games, frame independent Circle Line detection is quite handy. It can also be used to oddly shaped game pieces and when a plane is broken, a collision is detected. However, I have not found a consistent means of pulling this off if the object is […]
In an effort to help out the idea of Bitmap Animation Caching. I have made a few static classes to help out with out putting Arrays and Objects of bitmap data. Really they are just simple utilities that will make life a little easier. The real meat and potatoes comes from the […]
Another form of collision detection which some might think is like hitTest() but this is done purely by math. Again, this code is taken from Jobe Makar’s book Gaming Demystified for Flash MX 2004 book but refactored to be OOP and a static class. What you need to pass into this is an […]
Some interesting stuff has been going around about bitmaps in Flash. CacheAsBitmap has been in Flash since 8, but Jobe Makar and the fellas over at 8bitrocket have been doing some cool stuff with something called Bitmap Animation Caching.
Basically the idea is to take a movie clip or bitmap from a […]
I am going to be blogging on all kinds of collision detection over… well… over the life of this blog probably, as it’s such a hot topic and a difficult one at times.
First I am going to tackle Circle Circle collision detection. Now I will be honest and say that I really […]
For my first real post to interactivecrap.com (the best name for a blog EVER! :-p) I thought I would tackle a not-so-hard yet useful topic in Flash game programming.
Parallax Scrolling is essentially two or more backgrounds that scroll at different speeds. I am no expert on the subject (I am hoping through this blog that […]