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Create a Simple Asteroids Game Using Component-Based Entities 18 Oct 2012 | 02:02 pm
I recently wrote a tutorial for GameDevTuts+ where I show how to set up an entity composition system in ActionScript3 and use it to create a simple asteroids-style game. If that gets you excited, go r...
Dungeon of Math - an Adventure Time game we made in 48 hours 18 Sep 2012 | 05:49 pm
Me and Amanda made this game over the weekend for the Fantastic Arcade Game Making Frenzy Adventure Time Game Jam (wow, that's a mouthful!). Enjoy: http://www.adventuretimegamejam.com/submissions/69-d...
Mochi London 2012 - Come meet me! 22 Jun 2012 | 04:42 pm
I spoke at Mochi London last year, and I'm pleased to say I'll be back this year with a brand new talk (all about the making of Super Gun Kids). The main conference is on Saturday 15th September 2012 ...
Super Gun Kids: Progress Report 31 May 2012 | 07:15 pm
About two years ago, I decided that I want to gradually transition from being a freelance Flash dev to being an indie games dev – a full time one, if possible. I can now assure you, friends, it’s not...
Help me make this Canvas benchmark faster 24 Feb 2012 | 12:07 am
I'm doing another round of benchmarks at the moment. This new one is called PirateMark. It tests how many big rotating sprites can run on a particular engine/platform at 960x720 resolution, at 60fps. ...
Celebrating 20 Episodes of The Creative Coding Podcast 22 Feb 2012 | 03:24 am
Last January, me and Seb Lee-Delisle had an idea to record our Skype chats, and launched The Creative Coding Podcast. Here we are just over a year later, and we've got 20 episodes! We've had an amazin...
I'm speaking at Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco 14 Feb 2012 | 08:06 am
If you're in San Francisco on March 4th 2012 for GDC (or any other reason) you can come along to Flash Gaming Summit and hear a brand new talk from me called "Two Dimensions of Awesome", where I'll be...
What I learned on Seb's creative JavaScript course 7 Oct 2011 | 03:43 am
A few weeks ago I went along to Seb Lee-Delisle's Creative JavaScript course in Brighton. Don't worry, I'm not thinking about moving away from Flash - I just wanted to see 1st hand what was possible w...
Learn Flash Games Development in Cornwall 2 Sep 2011 | 11:08 pm
A few months ago I had the crazy idea that it might be fun to teach an evening course about Flash games, here in Cornwall. Thanks to the awesome people at Truro college, it's happening - and it's star...
Come to Mochi London on Saturday (27th August 2011) 23 Aug 2011 | 01:45 am
In my last post I wrote about how the Flash community feels in need of a reboot, to align it better with Flash's new users, and its new role as a games technology. Well, events like Mochi London are p...
