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Toggl - Insanely simple time tracking. Music Packs - Experimental Pack. Flash Love Letter (2009) Part 1. I took a look at the Flash ecosystem to see if I could spot the fatal flaw. 10 games a year may not seems like such a big deal to some, but there is a hidden one-two punch that knocks most developers into bankruptcy Only cockroaches survive without money. It doesn't matter much raw talent you possess.

With the right support, you could be the next Miyamoto. Daniel Cook: Game Design Theory I Wish I had Known When I Started. Flash Game Blogs. Tutorial: Custom Leaderboards With Mochi API (AS3) Hi everyone, I haven’t found any example how to create a custom leaderboard, so I’ve decided to create one.

Tutorial: Custom Leaderboards With Mochi API (AS3)

I’m sure that it can be useful for you :) To follow this tutorial, you should be familiar with the information in the Mochi Media docs. With just a little bit of time, we will create something like this: Let’s go! We need 6 buttons: 2 function buttons (Load – to load our leaderboard, Send – to send the score)and 4 buttons to filter the score: daily/weekly/monthly/all We also need 3 columns (Text fields) to output name/score/date of players. initialization function request is a list of score: onScoresReceived – callback function that gets the scoresfunction implementation of the showScore function: function to display the correct date, for users :) to send the score That’s it.

Download the source here. Take college and university courses online completely free. In recent years massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become a trend in online education.

Take college and university courses online completely free

The term was coined in 2008 by David Cormier, manager of web communications and innovations at the University of Prince Edward Island. The first MOOC was created the previous year, at Utah State University. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of courses available online at no cost. You can study anything from business to zoology in your own home at no cost. MOOCs are designed like college courses but are available to anyone anywhere in the world, at no cost. Coursera is perhaps the most well-known of the online education facilitators.

EdX is another non-profit course site created by founding partners Harvard and MIT and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Guest piece: Launching an app on a tight budget. Erick V.

Guest piece: Launching an app on a tight budget

Garayblas is a game designer and founder of Kuyi Mobile, a game development company based in Manila. Erick has been developing games for over 12 years and created a number of award-winning and successful titles including Streetfood Tycoon, which has received millions of downloads worldwide. Basic Gates. Mastering 2D Animation: 01 by Tony White. Knights Runner Game Graphic Set. Tones: About WolframTones.

When prominent scientist Stephen Wolfram published A New Kind of Science in 2002, it was immediately hailed as a major intellectual landmark.

Tones: About WolframTones

DangerDom Studios - Design & Illustration by Dominic Flask. Public Domain Art & Code. Art & Code from the Game Released into Public Domain The collaborative, web-based, massively multiplayer game Glitch began its initial private testing in 2009, opened to the public in 2010, and was shut down in 2012.

Public Domain Art & Code

It was played by more than 150,000 people and was widely hailed for its original and highly creative visual style. The entire library of art assets from the game, has been made freely available, dedicated to the public domain. Code from the game client is included to help developers work with the assets. Lgbkdbr. CrazyTalk Animator Advantage - Taking 2D Animation to the Next Level. Online Derivative Calculator. AppInventor.org: Democratizing App Building.

Playtomic: open source leaderboards, achievements, user created content and dynamic content for games. RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service. Formatting text for localized Flash projects using CSS, HTML, and ActionScript. The Internet is, by its nature, globally connected—so the idea of different cultures developing content for one another has become a common scenario.

Formatting text for localized Flash projects using CSS, HTML, and ActionScript

Localization is the process of translating content from one language to another; a localized application displays more than one language. Some applications are developed in a default language and then localized to other regions, while others are built to target multiple languages from the start. In general, it is considered a best practice to develop your Flash applications ready for localization even if you're currently only targeting one language.

To do this, you'll need to understand how text works in Flash and the range of formatting options available. Please see Basics of internationalizing applications in the ActionScript 3.0 Developer's Guide for a breakdown of terminology related to localization. Strategy and workflow. Video Games Translation. Tue, 30.09.2014 Happy International Translation Day 2014.

Video Games Translation

Issue15.pdf (application/pdf Object) Free Sound Effects. zAlbee's Interblag. Khailcs's Badge Charts. Avg: 0.1 badges/dayMost: 11 badges in one day - 1052 days ago Avg: 0.94 pts/dayMost: 135 pts in one day - 1052 days ago Avg: 3.12 badges/monthMost: 26 badges in one month - 47 months ago Avg: 28.47 pts/monthMost: 290 pts in one month - 46 months ago.

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Preserving the classics. Classic PC Games : Free Software. By Bulma Produktions software eye favorite 30 comment 1 Adult adventure game favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: QBasic games, Vintage computer games, Adventure games.

Classic PC Games : Free Software

About : introduction : article. Activetuts+ Workshop #2: Amorphous+ Critique. Continuing our new series of critiques, this week Matt Porter gives us a detailed rundown of a classic Flash game: Amorphous+.

Activetuts+ Workshop #2: Amorphous+ Critique

Overview I've always been a fan of simple yet addictive games, especially those of the action genre. Amorphous+ is one of the most memorable browser-based web games to fit this criteria. It's easy to pick up, quick to play, but very hard to master. Gaming the Classroom. Flash, Flex, AIR, Silverlight, HTML5, iOS, & Android. Custom Production Music and also Graph Paper.