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Vote for Nano War and Take Something Literally

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:25 +0000

Hello,
If you like Nano War or Take Something Literally you will be very helpfull if you can vote for my games on the Inde Pub Game contest.
Register here http://www.indiepubgames.com/register.php
And vote here http://www.indiepubgames.com/vote.php

Only 5 minutes needed :). Thank you very much.

Flash for mobile contests

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:08:10 +0000

Like you know, Android mobiles with froyo (OS 2.2) can play Adobe Flash content since july 2010. Great new! :D

So some websites and Adobe decided to organize 3 diffrent contests:

Kongregate Mobile flash game contest: $30 000 in prizes, end 23th august 2010.

Flash Game Licence: Cell your Flash game contest, $30 000 in prizes, end 5th october 2010.

Mochiads: Made for mobile contest, $20 000 in prizes, end 24th october 2010.

There is no rules against posting games to other contests.

So I will try to adapt and optimize Roll and Jump and Nano War for Android devices. Thank you Adobe and Google. Good luck all!

GeekIsArt: Gameplay for coders

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:25:34 +0000

Play GeekIsArt

GeekIsArt is an advergame developed for ISART Digital. This game is designed for coders and future coders.

Discover your programming skills with GeekIsArt ! Help your geek achieve his dream by optimizing his scoring !
The programming department of the school is happy to offer you GeekIsArt, a game based on logic.

PLAY GeekIsArt

You have to program a character (a cute little geek) in order to activate all triggers. But you have to optimise your code like a real programmer.
Optimise every commands by using, function, loop, and logic. You can submit your best score and challenge your friends on 15 levels. Unfortunately the game is only available in french.

Take Someting Literally 2 private beta

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:23:01 +0000

Click to play Take something literally 2 beta

After many requests I decided to blow up my brain to design more puzzles. That was hard, that was epic but I finally found 25 more puzzles. And now your are welcome to test here:

Take Something Literally 2 in private beta here.

I hope you will enjoy the new game system, the puzzles, the references and the rewards. If you have any request please post a comment or go to the forum.

A little post mortem about the first episode:

Take something literally 1 was my first “riddle” game. I made this first episode without Internet connection in few days. I made this game for fun. Actually I just started to design one little “game” based on the irreversible choises, the “flash cookies” and the clock system. But after all this idea had a big potential. So I decide to design a lot of litle puzzles based “outside the game”. Against all odds it was a hudge success with players. I knew that some players could not play some puzzles. But that was my choise. I knew that sponsors would be frightened about that. But after the first release on Kongregate and the 1 million plays in one week they changed their opinion.

Nano War 2.0 private beta test

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:28:41 +0000

Your are welcome to test my new game Nano War 2.0. Indeed it’s the sequel of Nano War released in may 2008.
New gameplay, new graphics, new music, new AI, new cells, …

If you want to test the private beta click here to play Nano War 2.0 beta and use this password : beta

EDIT: The new version “beta 2 is available”.

Dont forget to report any bugs, errors and feedbacks on the forum.

Tutorial: How to make a game like Jetman – step 1 – The Jetman

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:06:36 +0000

In my first tutorial I will show you how to make a flash game like Jetman.
A simple very famous casual game on facebook and very addictive.

Play Jetman

1. First of all you have to download the Adobe Flash IDE: Adobe Flash CS3 or Adobe Flash CS4

We will code the game with ActionScript 3.0 (the programming language of Flash) so you need Adobe Flash CS3 at least.
You can download the free trial version of Adobe Flash here (Mac or Windows) : https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?loc=en&product=flash

2. Create your document

Open Flash.
Create a new ActionScript 3.0 document.
On the properties set the framerate to 25fps.
And set the background color to black.

3. Create Jetman MovieClip

Flash uses graphic objects called MovieClip. So we have to create the Jetman’s MovieClip.

Click on the Rectangle tool on the tools bar. (on the left)

Then drag and drop on the stage to create a rectangle about width:50px and height:15px (you can modify your shape dimentions later).
Select all your shape including the border. You can also use a double click.
Do a right click on your selected shape and click on Convert to Symbol.
Write this symbol’s name : Jetman (not jetman or JETMAN).
Then click OK.

Now you can see your Symbol Jetman into your Library (on the right). If you don’t see the Library Press F11 key.
You have 1 instance of the Jetman symbol on your stage. Good. We just created a MovieClip.

In order to interact with the jetman MovieClip with ActionScript, we have the rename the instance’s name on the stage.

Click on the Jetman’s instance on the stage.

Then go to the properties on the bottom and set the instance’s name to jetman (not Jetman or JETMAN) it’s very important.

It’s done! Now we can move the instance with ActionScript.

4. Starting to code

You have differents ways to code with ActionScript. We will use the easier. (Coding into layers)

Create a new layer on the timeline (Click on the button on the left bottom corner).
Put the layer on the top: drag and drop the layer.
You can rename the layer with a double click or Right Click then rename.
Then select the first frame (here in black).

Finally go to the windows menu > Actions or press the F9 key.

A new windows is opening : The Actions window. We will to write all our code here.

Copy and paste this Actionscript 3 code (After codinf into your layer you should see a little a into this frame):

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// Please don't remove this comment.
// Code by Benoit Freslon.
// Tutorials, Flash games:
// http://www.thisisgameplay.com
//

////// Game balance
// Jetpack's boost speed
var speedBoost = -4;
// Gravity
var gravity = .8;
// Speed limit
var speedMax = 5;

////// Global variables don't touch those one
// Jetman is using his jetpack ?
var boost = false;
// Jetman's current speed
var speed = 0;

// 25 times by seconds this function will be launched
function jetmanEnterFrame(pEvt)
{
// If boost == true
if (boost)
{
// The speed changes
speed = speedBoost;
}
else
{
// Else the gravity decrease jetman's speed
speed += gravity;
}
// If the current speed is to hi
if (speed > speedMax)
{
// Limit the speed
speed = speedMax;
}
// If the current speed is to low
else if (speed < -speedMax)
{
// Limit the speed
speed = -speedMax;
}
// Every frame jetman will move vertically. (y axis)
jetman.y += speed;

// If jetman is out of the screen
if (jetman.y > 450)
{
jetman.y = 100;
}
}
// Add a event listener to launch the jetmanEnterFrame function every frames
jetman.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, jetmanEnterFrame);

// If the mouse is pressed
function mouseDown(pEvt)
{
// Set boost to true
boost = true;
}
// Id the mouse is released
function mouseUp(pEvt)
{
// Set boost to false
boost = false;
}
// Detecting the mouse inputs (MOUSE_DOWN and MOUSE_UP) on the entire "stage"
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDown);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseUp);

Finally test your game. (hit CTRL+ENTER)

You should see that:

Download the source file here:

[www.thisisgameplay.com]_Jetman_step1.fla

Download the compiled file here:

[www.thisisgameplay.com]_Jetman_step1.swf

Next step the level design… ;)

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v43/106/4243149646/app_1_4243149646_252.gif

La main de Thierry Henry Le jeu flash

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:59:54 +0000

Hello and bonjour,

J’ai vu ce matin en me levant que le match d’hier soir France – Irlande (pour les qualificatifs de la coupe du monde 2010) avait fait un énorme buzz sur Internet.
Ni une ni deux j’ai sauté sur l’occasion pour faire un mini jeu réalisé en 6 heures.

Pour jouer c’est ici : Jouer à La main de Thierry Henry le jeu de main.

Un nom de domaine spécialement pour l’occasion : www.lamaindethierryhenrylejeu.com

Hello

The hand of Thierry Henry is a huge Internet success today so I made a little funny game on this. (France – Ireland)

Pour jouer c’est ici : The hand of Thierry Henry the game

Edit : http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/zap-net/le-zap-net-du-vendredi-20-novembre-2009-5551268.html

Flash CS5 builds Iphone applications

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:58:45 +0000

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta starts.

At MAX 2009, Adobe showed a number of applications and games for iPhone that have been built using a prerelease version of Flash Professional CS5. These applications are available now for you to download from the Apple App Store.

Go to the official article on labs.adobe.com: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/#divider

New game, new gameplay, Roll and Jump

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:47:54 +0000

Roll and Jump is a skill game where the goal is to climb as high as possible by jumping from a rolling circle to another.

Clim and do the highest score as possible.
You can do a wall jump, a double jump or activate slow motion!

The game will be released in few days on the web i hope to bring it on iphone as soon as possible.

Nano War Multiplayer v0.83

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:23:16 +0000

You are welcome to test and enjoy the new version of Nano War.
This new release include : new multiplayer levels, new background music, new multiplayer server (low latency and less bugs).

I will start to work on the 2nd Nano War as soon as possible.
However, don’t forget to post any bugs of feedbacks on the forum. ;)

Have fun !

Play now !

Edit : I’m also happy to see my game on the famous german newspaper DER SPIEGEL: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-42553-3.html.
If your don’t know this famous newspaper like me read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel.