Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Catnarok 2: Longcat Rampage by Antoine Litzler! If you are an internet geek, you’ll love this game. Memes and parody abound as Antoine manages to pull in countless familiar characters into one hilarious game! You are the longcat, and you are definitely on a rampage. You [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Greens Survive Only When Reds Die by Oleksii Zagorodnii! You have to love a game with instructions in the title, and this title pretty much says it all- Greens Survive Only When Reds Die! The object is to get the green guy through the door. Problem [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Orbits by Andy Brown! Orbits is a really well-made physics-based puzzler. You are a ship, and you have to propel yourself to the target on the planet. As you complete this task, you advance to the next level. You start in Autumn, and work your way [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday Winner is Raze 2 by Juice-Tin! If shooters are your thing, this will be your new favorite game. Raze 2 really delivers as a big-time shooter with a ton of polish and tight gameplay. You are a soldier in the Raze unit, and your mission is to eradicate [...]

Creating Ally AI That Locates Nearest Enemy and Attacks In this tutorial, you will learn: Basic for loop usage Basic array usage How to find the distance between two points How to use Math.atan2() to have MovieClips follow each other How to fire projectiles How to split a velocity vector into two perpendicular lines using [...]

FGS 2012 Advisory Board Interview Series This is part three in a series of interviews of the Flash Gaming Summit 2012 Advisory Board. This is your chance to get to know the folks who determine the content of Flash Gaming Summit, getting their thoughts on both the conference and the games industry in general. This week’s [...]

FGS 2012 Advisory Board Interview Series This is part one in a series of interviews of the Flash Gaming Summit 2012 Advisory Board. This is your chance to get to know the folks who determine the content of FGS, and hear their thoughts on both the conference and the games industry in general. This week’s [...]

Building a retro platform game in Flixel, Part 1 Note: This tutorial was originally written for .net magazine. I’m now allowed to publish it here, so read on and enjoy! Grab the files for download before starting! Retro style games are becoming more popular than ever online. Commonly referred to as “8-bit” these games have [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Diamond Hollow II by Arkeus! If you like retro platformers, you are going love Diamond Hollow II. Arkeus creates a world beneath the surface, where you need to climb and defeat various creatures in order to get out. The closer to the surface you get, the [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Wonderputt by Damp Gnat! Wonderputt. Is. Awesome. That pretty much sums it up. The enjoyment of playing this game comes from two directions: the gameplay of putting the ball into the hole(s), and also from the fact that your interacting with a work of art. The [...]