At the end of our release cycle for the company I currently work for, our master branch gets locked down for 2-3 weeks for final testing, signoffs, and any last minute patches that needed to be committed. Meanwhile, our engineers are working on the next release, so we create a Read more…
As we saw in AS3 BackboneJS-style Model Experiment Pt. 1 (definitely read through that first!) I created a BackboneJS-style model for use in AS3. You could listen for any change on the model, or for a specific property on the model to change. This got me thinking though, let’s go Read more…
Most of my day-to-day work is done using BackboneJS and other JavaScript libs. As a basic experiment, I thought I’d re-create the BackboneJS-style Model in AS3. Why, you might ask? Sure, in AS3, in a lot of cases, it’s going to be infinitely more efficient to have a single public Read more…
So I’ve been pretty deep building onto my Starling TD tutorial code to make an actual TD game, and every once in a while you have to just make something small and fun. I wrote a little Bitmap builder class where you pass in an image, a layer to draw Read more…
As a long-time AS3 coder, I’m very used to using AS3’s Timer class. For my Starling game tutorial, I even extended it and created the GameTimer class where I added the ability to pause the timer and some other things. As I’ve been working more on my game based on Read more…
I’ve updated my AS3 Starling TD Demo today. Thankfully, a very courteous person emailed me today letting me know that my Bitmap Fonts were not showing up if you didn’t actually have the fonts installed on your machine. Whoops! Now that the BitmapFonts are actually working using the proper output Read more…
We made it! Ten blog posts written in one month, averaging about 5,200 words per post (though most of it is code) is definitely a new record for me. I’m glad to be done with this phase of the code. My plan was always to get this demo working, write Read more…
I’ve showed off a few Manager classes so far. We walked through the EnemyManager, TowerManager, and SharedObjectManager. We’ve talked about enemies taking damage from bullets and towers somehow magically having an array of enemies that are in range. We’ve talked about UI components on the screen but never how they Read more…
In my previous tutorial on UI Menu Components I went over several UI components that mostly were found outside of the main Play State. The GameOptionsPanel is used in the Play State, but by “UI Game Components” I mean more the components that make up the HUD, the gold and Read more…
Bad UI will tarnish every good game design decision you’ve ever made about your game. [toc] So, you’ve finally finished your game. It has well-thought-out gameplay mechanics that you perfected by talking it out (to yourself in the shower). You didn’t even know you were so clever until you started Read more…