Alejandro Quarto

While trying to publish Pocket Pool (http://www.alejandroquarto.com/wp-content/test/pocketPool_v3.html), I had some time to play a big ammount of webgames. I was surprissed when i saw that one of the most played games at MochiAds is Bloons. This game, is the top one at mochiads ranks, and also is online for playing in a lot of game sites and portals.

First impression is that Bloons is a really simple game, and it is in fact. Also is highly addictive, and is so easy to get stuck at higher levels.

The aim of this tutorial is to introduce the main gameplay feature of Bloons to be able to create  new games.

I have to say, is really easy to create a “clon”, but is not my goal, people will not play a bad copy, will play Bloons. The only thing you can do here if you want to monetize a game like Bloons, is just to add new features, gameplay improvements, powerups, etc, and the most important thing: do something creative and original with the game concept.

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As i’ve promised, is time to share with all my readers my first game made with my tutorials.

Emanuele Feronato, from Italy, has offered to publish my source code at his blog  www.emanueleferonato.com
He is running this blog since a few years, and is one of the best places in the web to learn about Flash and Games. Is a shame he was not here when i started.  The good thing about this is that the game will be usefull for a lot of others guys out there who wants to build a game like the one i did.

If you want the source code please take a look at Emanuele post in his blog about my game.

http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2008/01/05/complete-flash-pool-game-with-highscores/

 You have the link at the bottom. Enjoy the source and the blog :D

 Thanks Emanuele.

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Is always nice to contribute, today AS.org stuff said OK to my new tutorial. You can read it in their place, also download the source code.

I hope you like it, and please send me feedback or sugestions here.

http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/717/1/Simple-3D-programming-for-AS20/Page1.html

As always, you can read all my others tutorials from here

http://www.actionscript.org/resources/authors/446/Alejandro-Quarto

Game in a day, crazy mode: ON 

After the first source compilation, i used a few hours on the last saturday to see what kind of game i can expect from this kind of examples.

The Game

Even this pool game is not the best, it have just a litle work, few hours to put all together, some art, and a really poor sound system. My first impression is that balls examples opens a big world of chances for game development. They are simple, easy to handle and inside a system, they can take a lot of shapes. This time i made a simple pool. If you remember Pocket Gal, Pocket Gal 2, and the sequel Super Pool, for old systems, this game is not new for you.
I have to say, the physics are not real, cos it can take a long while to play with all the Newton’s laws. Anyway, simulation is playable, and compared with any webgame arround.  If you want to play real pool, development can take more than few hours.
This is the game screenshot:

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This time, i will try to write in english. Sorry about my possible mistakes.
Since i’ve been uploading source code for a month, is time to do a compilation with a litle description, for all my readers that are not able to read spanish.

NOTE: all the examples includes a link o the source code, it can be a zip, or just the code to copy and paste. Link with FLA is usually at the bottom, in CS3 format.

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