Demo Updates – BitmapFont Working!
I’ve updated my AS3 Starling TD Demo today. Thankfully, a very courteous person emailed me today letting me know that my Bitmap Fonts were not showing up if you didn’t actually have the fonts installed...
View ArticleAS3 Starling Timer vs. DelayedCall
As a long-time AS3 coder, I’m very used to using AS3’s Timer class. For my Starling game tutorial, I even extended it and created the GameTimer class where I added the ability to pause the timer and...
View ArticleStarling AS3 Animated Bitmap Builder
So I’ve been pretty deep building onto my Starling TD tutorial code to make an actual TD game, and every once in a while you have to just make something small and fun. I wrote a little Bitmap builder...
View ArticleAS3 BackboneJS-style Model Experiment Pt. 1
Most of my day-to-day work is done using BackboneJS and other JavaScript libs. As a basic experiment, I thought I’d re-create the BackboneJS-style Model in AS3. Why, you might ask? Sure, in AS3, in a...
View ArticleAS3 BackboneJS-style Model Experiment Pt. 2 – Target Value Model Events
As we saw in AS3 BackboneJS-style Model Experiment Pt. 1 (definitely read through that first!) I created a BackboneJS-style model for use in AS3. You could listen for any change on the model, or for a...
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AS3 Starling Tower Defense Tutorial – Part 8 – UI Menu Components
Bad UI will tarnish every good game design decision you’ve ever made about your game. [toc] So, you’ve finally finished your game. It has well-thought-out gameplay mechanics that you perfected by...
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AS3 Starling Tower Defense Tutorial – Part 9 – UI Game Components
In my previous tutorial on UI Menu Components I went over several UI components that mostly were found outside of the main Play State. The GameOptionsPanel is used in the Play State, but by “UI Game...
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AS3 Starling Tower Defense Tutorial – Part 10 – Bullets, Collisions, and...
I’ve showed off a few Manager classes so far. We walked through the EnemyManager, TowerManager, and SharedObjectManager. We’ve talked about enemies taking damage from bullets and towers somehow...
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AS3 Starling Tower Defense Tutorial – Part 11 – Conclusion
We made it! Ten blog posts written in one month, averaging about 5,200 words per post (though most of it is code) is definitely a new record for me. I’m glad to be done with this phase of the code. My...
View ArticleGit Rebase Upstream Feature Branch Alias
At the end of our release cycle for the company I currently work for, our master branch gets locked down for 2-3 weeks for final testing, signoffs, and any last minute patches that needed to be...
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