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Update (May 29, 2016): emmett butler has an even more thorough post on the topic here, NativeJoystick in Bum Rush I suggest starting with that since his post is a lot more in depth. I had been emailed about this issue (problems with GameInput) and gave some links that I thought helpful at the time I was working with controllers. Here they are in the event they can help others: * NativeJoystick: AIR “ANE” extension to support all joysticks that Windows can. * Topic: NativeJoystick: AIR “ANE” extension to support all joysticks that Windows can. * Joystick Library for Adobe...

I had this running in a previous version of OS X, but then it stopped working (operating system update made the driver non-functional). I spent some time Google-ing around, but it was hard finding something due to all the information out there being for PC. This is apparently completely doable on a PC (as described here, for example) But not as easy on a Mac. Searching Google did little for me… except that I found this cool thing (http://multicursor-wm.sourceforge.net/). I had no idea you could do that. Nevertheless, now that I have multiple controllers working on a Mac I feel...

Are you a tourist that sounds too normal? Do you have text that you need to muchachofy? I created The Muchachofier to solve all these problems, and more! It fully supports American tourist dialect… and… more! Ok… It’s my new Super Stupid Thing (TM) I threw together last night, because it would make a fine easter egg, and then I thought it would be fun to have it run in javascript… It was an evolution. This has been a 1:00 AM project. Try it: HERE Or download the sourcefiles HERE… I’m working on this new game called Monkey Fortunetell. It’s...

* PLAY IT HERE: http://froggy.alienmelon.com * DOWNLOAD SOURCEFILES HERE (includes website, music, etc…): http://nathalielawhead.com/sourcefiles/FROGGY/ I just launched FROGGY last night, and I’m thrilled (and relieved) at how positively it’s been received (on Twitter). It has even been posted on Warp Door! Update: Rock Paper Shotgun so wrote a post about it! I am not hallucinating or dreaming. This is amazing, and now makes me want to make another game. :) Froggy is a fizzing little curio that’s more Superhot than Frogger, a weird and wonderful free game with charm gushing out its cloaca. Come see. -Link Thank you everyone for...

DOWNLOAD SOURCE HERE I’ve been developing a totally new game for Tetrageddon. It’s going to be available for mobile (iOS, and Android), as well as the desktop. This is an HTML5 game (for a change), with CreateJS, using FlashCC’s HTML5 Canvas document. Doing so will make things easier for me animation wise, as well as managing complex animated “cut scenes”, and other graphical aspects… The game is codenamed “Face The Music” because it will essentially be about death and “giving up” — in a playful yet poetic pixel art style. :) Best of all, “Face The Music” is a platformer...

Introduction: Flash Professional CC introduced a document type in which you can create an HTML5 Canvas document. It publishes HTML5 content using the CreateJS libraries (but you could easily use other libraries if you wanted to). Although this feature has been out for a while, there is little to no information (at least I couldn’t find much), about how to make something more complex in it (like a game). I love this development because (from Adobe documentation) “Flash publishes to HTML5 by leveraging the Canvas API. It translates objects created on stage in to their Canvas counterparts.” Meaning, I don’t...

Introduction: I’ve decided to build this first Tetrageddon Games “mini-game” tutorial, Offender, in Adobe Edge Animate because the program is still very new, and there isn’t much out there on it in terms of game development. I think this will make a great “getting started” resource for newcomers, as well as demonstrate the capabilities of Edge Animate. In this tutorial I hope to offer a solid example of building a game with the program. This is the first part of a series discussing HTML5 game development. * DOWNLOAD the source files here: Offender_HTML.zip * Play the finished game here: Offender...

First of all (moving forward) I will port some of the simpler games (Offender, The Gatekeeper, Haxatron 2000) to HTML5 (HTML5/JS/Edge Animate –maybe Edge Animate), and release a HTML5 version tutorial + source code for them. I’m very excited about doing this! It’s going to be awesome… Stay tuned! More (HTML5/JS/ect… related) source code/tutorials are on the way. :) Secondly, I finally found the time to release the sourcefiles for the microsites done for Tetrageddon Games. I created these in Edge Animate, seeing that there is little to no Edge Animate examples, tutorials, out there (it’s very new) I believe...

Visit the directory here! I’m excited to announce that I’ve finally finished porting, testing, and rewriting Tetrageddon FPS Tetris’s (updated) game engine. I’m also renaming it to Bloodsport Tetris, because that’s just so much more fitting… I’ve uploaded all assets to the sourcefile directory — the game is now open source! Enjoy!! All of its sourcefiles, sounds, classes, etc… are in the new directory here: http://nathalielawhead.com/sourcefiles/Tetrageddon_BloodsportTetris/ Do visit the /as directory, because that’s where all the hot sexy action is: http://nathalielawhead.com/sourcefiles/Tetrageddon_BloodsportTetris/as/ And, in-case you don’t like plain text links or whatever, the website now has that shiny golden “Download Source”...