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As promised this is a tutorial for building a Flash interface for a Pandorabots chatbot. This is a portion of an unreleased game I was building where you are stuck inside of a giant maze. The maze is actually a machine. An artificial intelligence called “I”. You can talk to it throughout your journey, and it engages with you in existential conversations, often taunting you. You can check out some screenshots, and more of that here. It was intended to be part of BlueSuburbia. At present it’s slipped to the back burner. The source files that are given with this...

Here’s something basic, and fun, while my next game is underway — it’s a small components from the next release. Dictating the animation of a movieclip with ENTER_FRAMEs – for smooth and consistent rollover, or rollouts. I prefer these (as I know many other developers / designers do) up against standard button events or animations. These are basic examples, and I’m sure they’ll be useful to those starting out, and looking (googling) for a solution like this. So here’s my approach at it… Example #1: have a button, or movieclip, increment or decremnt its frame number according to its mouse...

As some may know, the upcoming title for Tetrageddon Arcade is titled Offender 2 (World War B: War on Rabbits). It’s a delightfully epic violation of the senses taking place in the speculatively not to distant future where aliens (once again) attack Earth for the sake of abducting rabbits. Much like the original Offender, this version will be a far more rounded, and over-the-top adaptation of the original. It features gibs, adorable ass kicking rabbits with tons of attitude, and sociopathic aliens. You play the aforementioned alien, and have to survive abducting the rabbits. Like I said, they have attitude....

I’m making a game! The premise of which is that there will be enemy sprites (like tanks) shooting at you (a spaceship). Enemy projectiles will be fired in short controlled bursts… that’s the basic idea. The real thing is a lot more complex… Imagine short controlled bursts exploding in fireworks that you have to dodge if you don’t manage to “deactivate” them in time with your beam. Here’s the example (click “Fire!” button): [swfobj src=”http://nathalielawhead.com/sourcefiles/Projectiles/gravity_projectile.swf” height=”400″ width=”480″] DOWNLOAD .FLA HERE At any rate I’m releasing code snippets as I progress. Hopefully these will come in handy for others developing awesome...

The Wacky Name Generator (Version 1.0.0.0.1.0.2) Try it bellow: [swfobj src=”http://nathalielawhead.com/sourcefiles/Wacky_Name_Generator/namegenerator.swf” height=”261″ width=”500″] So I’m making a game! The premise is that you play a monster tearing up a fictional city. Any city really. Probably Tokyo, but I’m undecided. The other great premise is that you eat A LOT of civilians, military, and law enforcement officials. To add a touch of random (and reduce the time it takes for coming up with names for an “expendable” population), names for each enemy sprite are randomly created (in this case pieced together using a set amount of vowels and consonants), and then...