Chomper Stomping
jQuery/JavaScript/CSS 3/HTML 5, Java/PHP/Python/ActionScript, Git, Chrome/Firefox Extensions, Wordpress/Game/iPhone App Development and other random techie tidbits I've collected


 
 

 
 

Test Level

Those of you who read my other blog will know I had the day off today. I used that time to work on my game: Beta Version of Game I have added collision detection for all four corners of the ball. I have also added lava and crea...
by Christopher McCulloh
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Side Scrolling

Just a little update post. We’ve got scrollage (remember, you can move the ball with the arrow keys. You might have to click on the game to activate it though). It hit me today that I didn’t need the ball to move, I...
by Christopher McCulloh
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Making the Ball Rotate

You asked for it, you got it. The ball now rotates. See it rotate I realized that I already am capturing how fast the ball is going along the “x” axis (left and right), and that I could rotate it simply by telling i...
by Christopher McCulloh
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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...
by Christopher McCulloh
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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...
by Christopher McCulloh
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