This game was inspired by Emanuele Feronato’s Circle Chain game and as he posted the AS2 code I took it and converted is to a basic AS3 chain reaction game.This tutorial also covers the mochi encryption issues and the possibility to load different APIs despite those.
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2009/08/18
2009/07/30
AS3: MochiAds leaderboard with custom onClose function
On default, clicking the close button on the mochi leaderboard calls play(), which can in case of a timeline controlled movie lead to some problems. That’s why I added an argument to the showLeaderboard function. The following class belongs to my highscore screen that is called when the game ends or is ended.
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2009/06/18
PHP: inserting AdSense code to the WordPress classic theme
In the ‘Main Index Template’ (index.php) just add the following line have an Adsense ad between the post end and the comments.
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2009/06/16
Excel: dynamic worksheet names in formulas
Let’s assume, you got 12 worksheets named with year and month. Each sheet contains several values for every day. To put them all together I recommend a combination of the Excel functions CONCATENATE and INDIRECT (the real dynamic duo if there wasn’t one before).
2009/06/15
Outlook: Deleting old calendar items the fast way
Getting rid of old calendar items that waste storage capacity is easy.
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2009/06/06
Tutorial: Sharing shared objects between games/applications
This topic came up some days ago with a lot of interesting possibilities especially for flash games. One shared object holding several variables you can load from every game. What could that mean? A regular player of your games gets secret levels, special items or skills for playing a game more often. Or let the player compare his actual score to the scores he achieved in other games you made, if these are comparable. Or an adventurelike game where one has to solve puzzles in external games or where achievements in other games control the plot.
Alright, enough of the dreaming, let’s go to where the action is:
2009/06/05
Excel: Creating a budget sheet
Setting up a workbook
Open Excel and create a blank workbook. The default settings will create three Worksheets, that’s enough. My personal settings only create one sheet, the others are inserted by ‘Insert->Worksheet’. For the beginning we need two sheets. These are renamed (rightclick on tab->Rename) to ‘budget’ and (for actual reasons) ‘2009′. Then go to ‘File->Save as…’ and save it.
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