Whoa-Horsie.com Beta Tester Applications Closing
The amount of response we’ve had for BETA Tester applications has been so huge we’re going to stop accepting applications on March 31st. To be a BETA tester you must be at least 16...
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Game Journal 1.3: Your Life As A Game
In my previous game journal post I explored a game I hate to play, listed all the reasons I hated it, and then offered ways to fix the things I didn’t like. Exercise 1.3...
Flash FIX: Pre-loader Not Pre-Loading?
So I recently added a flash pre-loader to one of my games and I noticed that it wasn’t pre-loading like I expected it to. It turns out if you have any movieclips, graphics or...
Flash AS3 Tutorial: Remove HTML Tags
In my chat room one of the problems I ran into was formatting messages (ie adding font colors) but preventing users from posting HTML tags. So I came up with this nifty function. Run...
Flash AS3 Tutorial: Convert Hyperlinks to Clickable URLs
In my chat room I was having a heck of a time getting my regex to reliably convert hyperlinks to clickable URLs in my textarea component — sometimes it would chop off anything after...
Game Journal 1.2: Games You Hate To Play
Exercise 1.2 In my previous post I analyzed how I play, how someone else plays and then compared and contrasted the two. For this exercise you’re supposed to find a game you hate to...
Game Journal 1.1: Become A Tester
So I recently got my copy of Game Design Workshop by Tracy Fullerton back from a friend and while I was flipping through it I remembered one of the reasons I bought it and...
