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I recently wanted to store and retrieve AS3 Classes in SharedObjects. This could be particularly useful when dealing with an embedded resource. The key functions which help you achieve this are  getQualifiedClassName &  getDefinitionByName

Today I had to make an assignment for this company I had applied for. After passing round 1, the second round was an assignment. The task was to make a clone of Bejeweled which auto-plays itself, until no more matches can be made. The game can be stopped using a button or when no more matches are available. When it is stopped either way the user can click on any 3 gems to convert it to a wildcard gem. So the game can be played forever without any end. The whole thing took about 5 hours, with about 40 mins break in between and few other miniature breaks. I have always wanted to participate in game jams and make a time lapse video, so I took this opportunity and made one. Also I am giving away the source code on Github. It is made with Starling framework using AS3, so it should be portable to iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Web without any hassles. Screenshot Play online Click here to play the game online (hosted on my Dropbox) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1389278/...

Flash IDE used to have an option where you can test your flash movie with different kinds of modem speeds. It was very useful to see how loading external resources worked, for testing some funky pre-loaders I made back in those days. Today I had to test my AS3 game which I coded with Flash builder 4.6. Finally after some work managed to test the preloader I created based on this article . Here are the steps I followed (Works only for Windows, tested with Chrome) 1. You need a web server. I didn't want to download and install anything huge. So search for a portable as small as possible web server and found something called MicroApache. = Download it from here = (click File > Download after the page loads) Then run it by clicking on go.bat after extracting it somewhere, anywhere. Test it by typing http://localhost:8800 If that link gets taken down in the future you have other alternatives http://httpd.apache.org/ http://www.aprelium.com/downloads/ http://www.brsweb...

I started working on my first Indie game really long ago. Probably even before Stage3d was announced. But my day job kept me busy and the development happened only on and off. Here are a few details about it - Has a resolution of 720 x 480 (3:2 aspect ratio, had old iPhone screens in mind) - Not based on Blitting like Flixel does. I used the display list. - A lot of procedural artwork with AS3 filters, but with cacheAsBitmap enabled. - Heavy usage of  'Graphics' class, to create the elements via code. - Also has usual PNG frame animated graphics. Having worked on Robokill for the iOS, I got to read a lot of the original AS3 code. But little did I realize that even though that game had a resolution of 800 x 600, had lot of graphics and still ran smoothly, that game was designed in such a way that not the entire screen needed to be redrawn each frame. It never had parallax scrolling backgrounds, or full screen effects. It was written with a home-grown AS3 game engine a...

Update:- I have found something that has to be added to the existing code. The SWF embedded here runs only @ around 60 FPS on a Safari or Firefox on a Mac . I will work on a more consistent render loop code adding some timer calculation elements soon. I have ported the Tile based scrolling in Flash code by Andre Michelle to use Actionscript 3.0 Main challenge I faced was the tearing issue which was removed after I used Timer Event and updateAfterEvent() method. Thanks to 8bitRocket site for the tip. I am getting a blazing 160 FPS in browser.. OMG Flash rocks ! If anyone wants me to provide comments and documentation for the code. I will happily do it on request. Click here to get the full source code. P.S. If its slow, its because you might be having the static noise swf playing below (scroll page down). View on the post page by click the title to ensure it plays smoothly.

Creating Fast and Smooth Static TV Noise in Flash using AS3 was a simpler task than I expected it. First attempt was using for loops to set every pixel and was not very fast. A Simple browse through the API docs for BitmapData class gave me the 'noise' method bgdata.noise(Math.random() * 1000, 0, 255, 7, true); did the trick :) Complete code below package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.display.Graphics; import flash.display.Bitmap; import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.geom.Point; public class StaticNoise extends Sprite { const ww = 480; const hh = 272; var bgdata:BitmapData = new BitmapData(ww, hh, false, 0xffffff); var bg:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bgdata); var zeroPt:Point = new Point(0,0); public function StaticNoise() { addChild(bg); addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, drawBaby); } function drawBaby(e:Event) { bgdata.lock(); bgdata.noise(Math.random() * 1000, 0, 255, 7, true); bgdata.un...