Max Did It » Coding http://www.max-did-it.com Game Design, Coding, Graphics and Audio Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Generate Procedural Motor Sounds in Flash Generate Procedural Motor Sounds in Flash

When developing a racing game like Rubberband Racing, you will need decent motor sounds. Driving a silent car just feels weird (Maybe it won’t 50 years from now?). If I had a loop of a car engine, I could then change the volume and the pitch of the sound dynamically depending on the velocity of [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2013/02/06/testing-rubberband-racing-on-android-devices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=testing-rubberband-racing-on-android-devices Asymmetric Encryption with Flash and PHP I have recently delved into the topic of encryption, since I wanted to send encrypted data from a Flash application to a PHP script. I had to implement this manually since I didn’t have the option of using HTTPS on my web space. In this article, I describe how to generate an asymmetric encryption key [...]

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I plan to pay my bills with the games I create as soon as possible. The first experiment I’m conducting in that regard is displaying advertisements within my games. Is that a viable source of income for what I’m doing? What amounts of money can I expect to earn with ads? Will I be able [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2012/10/30/testing-google-ads-in-flash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=testing-google-ads-in-flash Hitting a Dead End with Facebook and Flash I have made good progress the last couple of days. I learned a lot, and I got a lot of classes and neat features done. Too bad I won’t be able to use any of them in my upcoming game. I managed to create a working implementation of the Facebook Connect button in Flash. And [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2012/10/28/dead-end-facebook-and-flash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dead-end-facebook-and-flash Inheriting From Ivy XML Files I have now talked about how you can publish artifacts to your local repository and how Ivy resolves dependencies for your project. As mentioned, Ivy uses the ivy.xml to know what files and libraries your project depends on. Ivy tries to retrieve these and will copy them into your project folder. In another post, I [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2012/09/29/resolve-dependencies-with-ivy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=resolve-dependencies-with-ivy Committing Artifacts with Ivy In my last post, I talked about the build automatisation tool Apache Ant. Ant originated as a tool for Java developers and has been succeeded by Maven, which provides many nice features like dependency management. Imagine you wouldn’t have to download and copy any libraries into your project path and configure the classpath every time [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2012/09/27/dependency-management-for-actionscript-projects-with-ivy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dependency-management-for-actionscript-projects-with-ivy How To Tidy Up Your Ant build.xml Files Before I worked at Bigpoint, I built and published my Flash projects the naive way: Just press the right Button in the IDE, and then copy the result from the respective folder. As I learned there, using build scripts like Ant has many advantages over that method though. You can automatize many tasks like deleting [...]

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