We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Fence() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 public class Helper { import flash.geom.Point; import flash.geom.Rectangle;   /** * This method confines a Point * within a Rectangle. Useful for * games [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Wrap() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 public class Helper { /** * This method reigns in a value to keep it between * the supplied minimum and maximum [...] Keep Reading

This week, guest contributor Jim McGinley talks about the player-created content juggernaut (and now Muslim-friendly) Little Big Planet. I played it multiplayer for about 10 levels. I haven’t played it online, nor have I tried single player. Music & Sound Effects - GREAT. The best thing about the game. Upbeat, but not irritating. Even “sproing” sound effects sound great! [...] Keep Reading

We just returned from an interactive ontario double-billed conference, GameON:Finance and the Ontario Game Summit. i had low expectations for the event, having been somewhat disappointed by the organization’s earlier effort, ICE08. The problem i had with ICE is that it repeated a lot of the information i had heard at the Game [...] Keep Reading

The gaming world is not one where you find many dissenting viewpoints, at least on matters of morailty. Sure, you’ll get the usual “GEARS OF WAR UZ THE BEST FL**CKING GAMEZORRS EVAR” versus “STFU N00B GRAND THEFT AUTO ROOLZ111!!1!1!!”. But when it comes to matters of morally compromising game content - particularly violent content - [...] Keep Reading