If you ever need to filter bad words in your Flash programs, it’s a simple task. Thanks to the String class in Actionscript 3.0, its “search” function packs this solution into only a few lines of code.
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For about a year right after I graduated from Full Sail, a friend and I moved to Seattle and started an iPhone studio named “Psychosis Studio”. During my time at Psychosis Studio I was privy to all the data that surrounded the sales and success of all the apps that were released. So I got to see first hand what just a little bit of “press” and marketing can do for a small struggling iPhone developer.
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The Great Poop Shoot has been around for a little while now, and it’s been played over 40,000 times! That’s not a very high amount of plays by any means, but I thought it was quite interesting how many of those plays were from China.
Is China the potty humor capital of the world!? I highly doubt it, but it seems The Great Poop Shoot found its way to a popular Chinese site “7k7k.com” and hopefully gave all of those Chinese people a chuckle.
I’ve been a fan of the Metal Slug pixel art for some time now, but those games are old old news. If you really want to check it out and get spammed with ads, someone over at MetalSlugSprites.net has ripped a ton of images and animations from the game(more than likely illegally). It’s worth a look for study purposes, but please don’t use them for your games.
Metal Slug, I’ma let you finish, but… the other day I stumbled on a guy named Yuriy Gusev, whose art left me completely stunned. He goes by the alias “Fool” on some websites, including Pixel Joint. He runs his own website, Foolstown, which is a delightful experience in itself.
I originally came across a few of his characters and immediately had an interest in his style. But his scenes and animations are what really take the cake and qualify Yuriy as one of my favorite pixel artists of all time. How can this not make you weak in the knees?
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I went to Florida, and as much fun and intense as my family is, I had a little free time to play around with some game development.
I didn’t want to work on a tiny tidbit of a larger project that would never get finished, so I made a silly little game revolving around the subject of poop. I know, I know, a *little* immature, but I was in the home where I spent the entirety of my youth– good excuse, right?
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Hello and welcome.
The overall point of this blog is to present and talk about subjects related to games, technology, and the culture that supports them. The authors will be me, Steve, and my friend Ethan. We are both game developers both having degrees from Full Sail University. A small note about the name. Look up to the top left-hand side of the page see that wizard. What is the first word you would use to describe him? shady! yeah that is right shady, hence the name The Shady Wizard.
