This started as a basic platform style game mechanic. I then worked to make the background scroll as the character reached near the edges. It became apparent that something needed to happen when the character hit the ground. In the interest of simplicity, I didn’t make a separate particles class, which would make cleaner code. […]

Reveal demo using the jQuery Modal Reveal plugin. I am working on how to get it to not load the SWF until the hidden div is revealed. It works in a stand alone PHP file but either wordpress or reveal is breaking it. As is apparent, the SWF loads tiny and the height and width […]

Reveal demo using the jQuery Modal Reveal plugin. I added the iFrame plugin to allow it to load a separate page that loads the actual SWF content. The animations are the default versions. Future experiments will have to be conducted to explore all of the goodness of the Zurb Reveal plugin. Very exciting possibilities with […]

In my continued quest to understand the use of vectors I have put together this little game that has some of the rocket thrust fun of the trendy iPhone game Jetpack. I wasn’t planning on doing it as such, but after watching the animation generated, I realized it had a similar feel. All I was […]

I was looking how to work a boids demo in AS3. I found a great example with all the bells and whistles on soulwire but it was doing more than I wanted for the beginning. I dialed my designs back to focus on steering and not all the flocking stuff just yet. Revisiting my book, […]

I have been reading about generative art and building projects inspired by the Game of Life. After demonstrating it for my students, one expressed interest in combining it into his project so that left me inspired to work the code into a different form. Using the fantastic post about this topic by Justin Windle, I […]

This small example used Flash to create the animation frames. I used the awesome tool from Keith Peters, SWFSheet to create the sprite sheet for this demo. The bonus of using this tool is that it will show the nested and code driven animations, unlike the built in export options of Flash. The JavaScript follows […]

Sometimes you just want somebody to chase you. [as3] private function ai():void { //calc dist var tempDist=Math.sqrt(Math.pow(player.x-enemy.x,2)+Math.pow(player.y-enemy.y,2)); //trace(tempDist); if(tempDist<150) { enemy.rotation=Math.atan2((player.y-enemy.y),(player.x-enemy.x))/Math.PI*180; //calc h or v move if(Math.abs(player.x-enemy.x)>Math.abs(player.y-enemy.y)) { //move toward player on x axis first if(player.x>enemy.x) { //player is to the right of enemy enemy.x+=2; } else { //player is to the left of enemy […]