Category: ~development

While working with Bloom Lite framework, I have discovered Native Signals – “a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt.” I have read before, that Events in Flash was slow, but I have also read, that the fastest way to do events is just call required listener (function) directly.
And I’ve decided to make my own fast and ugly approach for AS3 events.
It has only one class and, I believe, works super fast.
It is available for download from GitHub: https://github.com/pozirk/misc, and it’s very easy to use, here is an example:

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...
public class MyClass extends Eventer
{
  public static const MYEVENT:uint = 1;
  ...
  public function myFunc():void
  {
    if(...) //something happened
      fireEvent(MYEVENT, anyObjectHere);
  }
}
 
...
 
var my:MyClass = new MyClass();
my.addEvent(MyClass.MYEVENT, funcToCall);
 
...
 
public function funcToCall(obj:Object):void
{
  ...
}

So, any class can extends Eventer class, or just has it as a variable, and each class defines its own events (static IDs), which can be fired.

My approach doesn’t have anything like bubbling or capture phases, also there is only one listener possible for every event, but I was aiming for speed and I have thrown away everything and made it as fast as possible.
Hope, it will be useful for someone else, although there is nothing special here.

As I have decide to develop Cats’n’Rats game using FlashDevelop, I was required to find some kind of GUI framework for my buttons, listboxes, etc.
First, I have found Bloom & Bloom Lite – a lightweight and easy to use framework, but it was too basic for me and unintuitive.
Later, I have found AsWing, a great framework similar to Java Swing. But it was buggy, at least for me. 🙂 I could not make it work with absolute positions of controls.
Finally, I have found SPAS – Swing Package for ActionScript.
Another Swing-like framework, but, luckily, it works fine with absolute position by simply using AbsoluteLyout class. It has such features like GridControl and DropButton (still under development, but work great). The default design and colors don’t look very nice, but it’s ok for now.

Are you a flash game developer?
Do you want to get free traffic to your website?
OK, I’ll teach you. Nothing illegal! 🙂

It’s all about site-lock version of the game.
Usually, code for locking the game looks like that:

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if(...) //domain name is correct
{
  //let's play the game
  ...
}
else
{
  //show some angry message, or don't show anything at all
  ...
}

I do it the same way with one small change:

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else
{
  //redirect to the page with the game at your website
  try {flash.net.navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http:// www.yourdoamin .com/your-flash-game/"), "_self");} catch(e:Error) {}
}

Now, if someone host the game somewhere, where it is not supposed to be hosted, it redirects player to your website.
And everyone is happy: player can play the game, you get +1 visitor.

All my games are available for download and host on other websites, but they come with ads or sponsor’s brandings. Same games can be played at my own website and they don’t have ads. Of course, ads-free version of the game is site-locked.

But there are some smart guys, like one from “jeux .com”, who grabbed ads-free version of the game, put it to his website and didn’t even check it.
Now, I have +1500 extra visitors per day, mainly from France.
Merci, mon cher ami! C’est très gentil. 🙂

A little bit creepy, but I like it.
Continue reading “Pozirk Games Intro with TV on/off effect”

I was accidentally storing numbers as a strings in my objects.
Something like that:

data = {x: "200", y: "100"};

instead of that:

data = {x: 200, y: 100};

So, the problem starts when you try to sum or deduct these “numbers”.
For example,

trace(data.x+90);
Output: 20090

trace(data.x-90);
Output: 110

A small list of websites, where you can sell flash games as well as other flash applications.

1. Buy Stock Flash
You earn:50% – 75%

2. Flash Juggler
You earn: up to 50%

4. Flash Do
You earn:
Selling Exclusively: 50 – 70%
Selling Non-Exclusively: 50%

5. Stock Fuel
You earn:
Selling Exclusively: 55 – 70%
Selling Non-Exclusively: 50%

6. Flash Components
You earn:
Selling Exclusively: 40 – 60%
Selling Non-Exclusively: 30%

7. Active Den
You earn:
Selling Exclusively: 40 – 70%
Selling Non-Exclusively: 25%

8. BuySellArcade
They don’t charge fees, but you have to pay with their credits in order to create new auction.
New customers get free 10 credits upon registration.

9. FlashGameLicense
Auction. You pay 10% commission fee after successfully selling your game.

So, 9 websites so far.
You can also buy flash games and other flash widgets or components at these website!
But, wait! All the best games are selling here!