MochiAds is pleased to announce our new Leaderboards service, which allows you to easily integrate high score tracking into your games. The service works much like MochiAds, in that you can easily add them to your game using only a couple of lines of code. Once you do, you’ll be able display [...]

If you are creating a Flash game that used keyboard controls, you may want to be aware of a bug in the Firefox browser (Mac and PC) that causes Flash to ignore keyboard events. When you embed a movie in a page using a transparent or opaque wmode, the movie seems to be [...]

 
In the spirit of our MochiAds Flash Game Contest, I’m posting a long list of sites where you can submit your games. This is for all the developers competing for the three $400 Audience Prizes based on traffic we’re giving out :)

Flash game distribution can be a challenge, and we encourage you to spread [...]

I haven’t had the time to dig into the new iPod game format, but it sure didn’t take long for other people to. Ben Sinclair has an entertaining writeup on his quest to break down the new iPod game format.

One of the things I commonly see people do when launching a link from Flash is to use the onPress method with getURL. This combination works in IE, but fails in Firefox if the domain is not explicitly allowed to launch popups.
The simple solution to overcoming blocked popups in Firefox is to use [...]

If you’ve ever done any game development then you know how hard it is to accomplish true shape based hit detection. Fortunately, Grant Skinner has just published a class that allows for simple shape based hit detection in Flash 8.
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/…
If you’ve got a great game to show off then feel free to post [...]

Here’s a link to some great Flash 8 examples that also include a download for each example.
http://www.senocular.com/pub/flash/8/index.php
There are a lot of great features in Flash 8 (aside from the Flash 8 Player security model) that will really push media content to a new level in the months to come.

As Flash 8 has been spreading through the community and so have the complaints about the new sandbox security model. Bob expressed his feelings about the shortcomings of the new security model back in early August, but unfortunately it didn’t garner much attention from the folks at Macromedia. This time around Ken [...]