Drawing a Trapezoid with Stage3d
The game I’m working on now has nice round corners that we surround with fuzzy grass or hard crystals or any number of pleasently tactile textures. Unfortunately until yesterday they […]
technical
Rebuild 3: Interfaces & common resolutions in 2013
The target aspect ratio for Rebuild 3 is widescreen 16:9. Rebuild 1 and 2 were 4:3 which is pretty normal for Flash games that have to appear on sites like […]
Integrating PayPal for Digital Goods
Let’s face it: PayPal may be an unethical, bullying monopoly, but it’s a necessary evil when selling online. When we used PayPal to sell Fantastic Contraption, they suddenly froze our […]
Rebuild: Porting to the PlayBook via Adobe AIR and FlashDevelop
Last week was my first GDC as an indie developer, and hoh boy were those goodtimes! I helped Colin present in a talk about failure (Incredipede was the happy ending), […]
Debugging Shaders in Flash with PIX
** Update: It’s hard to tell but I think PIX is no longer a free app and is now part of Visual Studio :/ I have started using Intel’s profiler/debugger […]