Posts filed under 'Game Development'

Physics for Flash Games

On Thursday this week, I’m doing a presentation on Physics for Flash Games at the London Flash Platform User Group. It’s a tricky presentation to plan because there’s such a wide range of knowledge and ability among the audience but I think I’ve come up with a presentation that has something for everyone. Hope to see lots of London Flash users there. There’s no membership requirement so if you’re interested just turn up. Or better still sign up on the web page because then you have a chance to win one of the prizes in the raffle.

Posted on 29 May 2007 | 4 comments | continue reading

Casual Multiplayer Gaming

Until recently I wasn’t sure if casual multiplayer gaming was possible. In my experience, multiplayer gaming required a serious investment of time and energy.

But I spent most of yesterday afternoon playing Zwok, a multiplayer game that is so simple, and so much fun, I figure there may be something to learn from it. (And if I do learn from it I won’t have to write off yesterday afternoon as wasted time). So here’s a brief summary of my thoughts so far…

Posted on 27 April 2007 | | continue reading

Free sudoku puzzles for your website

Last week, over at Strictly Sudoku, we launched a new game for use on other people’s sites. This flash game features a new sudoku puzzle every day and may be placed on any website free of charge. The game features many of the cool features from Strictly Sudoku’s own puzzles. Anyone wishing to host the game may link directly to the swf on the Strictly Sudoku site or may download the swf and place it on their own web server. There’s more info on the Strictly Sudoku website…

Posted on 4 April 2007 | 5 comments | continue reading

Finite State Machines for AI in Actionscript

A few months ago I said I’d post about the AI in Stick Sports Soccer. Here, at last, is the first such post looking at the code used to implement the Finite State Machines in this and other games I’ve developed.

Posted on 15 January 2007 | 4 comments | continue reading

Is this the best soccer game on the web?

Stick Sports Soccer launched today over at Stick Sports and whether it's the best soccer game or not, I'm proud to have built it. I didn't build the whole site, just did all the actionscript programming for the game...

Posted on 8 August 2006 | | continue reading