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One of the frequently asked questions is managing multiple similar things like bullets, balls, enemies etc. I did put together a short tutorial here.
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The stats by end of August (as of August 29th):
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Well, seeing the actual accounts where revenue share drops in and then looking up the conversion rate is quite awful. Again you get 1 Euro per 1.4 Dollars.
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So, to test the often stated advantage of text ads versus image ads I did set up two skyscrapers (160×600) and use the following code to randomly (should be 50/50 in the long run) show them.
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I know, again a post about API integration. But this time I am pretty sure it runs, because it’s tested twice. And Kongregate as well as Newgrounds ‘answered’ the API call though the game was wrapped by Mochi’s Live Update.
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Flu! The Game

Made from the tutorial, this is my newest game. I included several ideas that people on Kongregate and Newgrounds suggested such as the obstacles.
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Just a qestion that made me think a bit. I know that some of them must be professional game designers or at least some sort of programmers. Others are students. How about you?
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The Chain Reaction Game

This game was inspired by Emanuele Feronato’s Circle Chain game and as he posted the AS2 code I took it and converted is to a basic AS3 chain reaction game.This tutorial also covers the mochi encryption issues and the possibility to load different APIs despite those.
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On default, clicking the close button on the mochi leaderboard calls play(), which can in case of a timeline controlled movie lead to some problems. That’s why I added an argument to the showLeaderboard function. The following class belongs to my highscore screen that is called when the game ends or is ended.
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