More Bezier Fun… Interactive Fun!

December 2, 2010
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Earlier today, I posted a Bezier curve demo. And now I’m done with what I started out to do: an interactive Bezier curve generator! Take a gander after the jump.

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Good ‘ol Bezier Curve Drawing

December 2, 2010
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Bezier curves are wonderful and add a desirable realism to game movement (and fading and scaling and volume and panning and RPG XP levels and… and…!). But constructing the right curve for your task can be difficult. After the jump is a quick example of Bezier curves and what makes them tick.

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Fun Match 3 Flash Prototype Is Fun Redux

December 1, 2010
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Last week, I debuted a Match 3 (Bejeweled) prototype and commented on how fun the core mechanic is without the frills of a full-fledged game. Since that post, I’ve moved forward and now I’ve got a much more polished, almost complete version of the prototype. It looks and acts quite a bit like the...

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Diabetic Christmas Carol

December 1, 2010
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On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Twelve Reese’s Pieces, Eleven Candy Buttons, Ten Bits-O-Honey, Nine Hershey Kisses, Eight M & Ms, Seven Candy Canes, Six Butterfingers, Five Jolly Ranchers! Four Gummy Worms, Three Sour Pops, Two Bottle Caps, And a candy necklace to boot!

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Fun Match 3 Flash Prototype Is Fun

November 25, 2010
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Last night, I finished a prototype for a match 3 clone I’ve got in the works. While testing the latest build, I was amazed to realize twenty minutes had passed. The prototype, has no scoreboard, sound, UI, just colored circles on a white background. Yet I still had fun. A clear example of the...

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Renaming the root Trac folder on Dreamhost

November 19, 2010
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Use the 1-click Trac install in the DH panel for the desired new folder name of your Trac install. Then copy /db/* to /db/ and /conf/* /conf/. Open the conf file in the conf folder and change the paths so they point to your new path (except the svn repo if you didn’t change...

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Actionscript 3 Singletons

October 20, 2010
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Singletons are useful and yet not a native part of Actionscript 3.  Every experienced AS3 developer has their quirky way of creating singletons, and here is mine (after the bump).

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