Construct 2 is an HTML5 game making tool that doesn’t require any programming knowledge. You just drag and drop items around, add behaviors to them, and make them come alive with “events”.
In this review I will see what Construct 2 is capable of, from my perspective as a Flash game developer. Read the review to see whether or not this tool will serve the purpose of getting my games on more platforms!
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I’m neither an artist nor an animator, and yet I was able to lip-sync an audio track in next to no time, all thanks to SmartMouth by Justin Putney. This Flash Professional extension really impressed me with how quickly it was able to automate an otherwise extremely tedious task. Read on to see how it can make animating your cutscenes so much easier.
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Let’s take a look at How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS5: The Art of Design and Animation published by Focal Press. In it, Chris Georgenes takes you from problem to solution – from the viewpoint of an animator who has been commissioned to create a job and is working to a deadline and to a budget.
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A few weeks ago Friends of Ed published their latest offering Foundation Flash Catalyst by LordAlex Leon and Greg Goralski. Read on to find out how Shane Johnson feels about Flash Catalyst, what he made of the book and how you could win an eBook copy of your own..
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Last but not least, the third day of FITC San Francisco was marked by great speakers like Grant Skinner, Lee Brimelow and Yugo Nakamura.
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By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these experiences to actually realize that you might be able to pull it off yourself..
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There’s been a sense of confusion in our industry lately. Standards are changing and there is a lot of discussion about where Flash fits in the future of the web. As a kind of therapy I decided to check out the FITC San Francisco and so far, I’ve found exactly what I was looking for..
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June 1st 2009; the date that Adobe released their newest tool aimed at "both designers and developers". This was almost the slogan for Flash Catalyst, previously code named "Thermo".
Let’s take a first glimpse at this powerful application which promises designers that they’ll now be able to participate in the development of Flash applications and websites.
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Last week Adobe released a beta for Flash Builder 4; the update to Flex Builder 3. There’s been a lot of discussion on the name change but it’s clear that Adobe wants to sort out the confusion that Flex is a framework and Flash is the platform.
Seeing how I’ve been using Flex Builder to write my ActionScript 3.0 projects for over a year now, I figured I would highlight some of the new features to help all you ActionScript 3.0 Flash Developers out there..
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