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Archive for February, 2012
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flash games
 

The Ball Will Bounce…

Turns out, the whole problem was that I forgot to actually “rotate” the line. Apparently there is a slope, and then there is a slope. If you draw the line as a sloped line, flash doesn’t consider it sloped. If...
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flash games
 

The Ball Won’t Bounce…

When I purchased “Basics of Actionscript 3.0 For Animation” I assumed that I knew enough actionscript to retrofit it for Flash 8, and that once I got Flash 9 I could benefit from the newer stuff in the book. I may h...
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math & physics
 

The Parts of a Triangle

Anyone remember Trigonometry? No? Me neither… Oh, wait, that’s right, I never really took it. Well, I took Algebra and Geometry, but never a class specifically called Trigonometry. Is there such a thing? I’m s...
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Lookup Tables for Math Equations

Well, I’ve begun creating little tutorials for myself. The problem is that it sometimes can be months between flash game projects, and I often forget some of the things I learned last time around (although they are much e...
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Newton’s Laws

So… It turns out that what I am trying to do is one of the hardest things you can possibly try and do in two dimensional game programming. Great. While starting a new job and writing my first book. I remembered that I had...
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