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  • Learn HTML5 With This Simple Avoider Game Tutorial

    September 23, 2011

    In this tutorial (the first of a series), you’ll learn the basics of HTML5 game development with JavaScript and the element. You don’t need to have any programming experience, or even any HTML experience (apart from this one article). Let’s get started! View Tutorial

  • Tip: Close Your Android AIR App on Back Button

    September 21, 2011

    While developing AIR for Android apps, you should consider whether you need your apps to run in the background, especially if they are highly intensive graphic games. View Tutorial

  • Understanding Date(): Making a Calendar in AS3

    September 20, 2011

    Today we’ll build a fully functional calendar widget using AS3. It’s not rocket science, just an excellent example of using the Date class, which can handle all the complexity of extracting times, dates, months and years. We are also going to use some Flash components, and make sure that this calendar is portable to Flash…

  • Quick Tip: Detect User Inactivity in a Flash Movie

    September 8, 2011

    In this Quick Tip, you’ll learn how to detect when the user has been inactive for a determined time. Keep reading to find out how! View Tutorial

  • Code Your Own Juicy Tabbed Slider (using the Nivo Slider)

    September 6, 2011

    A week ago, on our sister-site, Webdesigntuts+, we showed you how to design a “Juicy Tabbed Slider” in Photoshop. Today we’re going to show you how to actually code it in a few quick steps. No heavy CSS or Javascript knowledge required – promise! We’ll be using the popular Nivo Slider to handle the animation,…

  • How to Build an RSS Reader with jQuery Mobile

    September 5, 2011 Respond

    In conjunction with the jQuery conference in Boston, John Resig announced and released the highly anticipated jQuery Mobile. Though currently in an alpha state, the framework is fantastic. Today, we’ll dive in, and build a simple Tuts+ RSS reader, using PHP and jQuery Mobile. When we’re finished, you’ll have the ability to add this simple…

  • Beginner’s Guide to Powerflasher’s FDT 4

    August 30, 2011

    Flash Professional isn’t the only tool you can use for making Flash apps and games. Earlier in the year we looked at FlashDevelop; now, we’ll take a look at FDT 4, a powerful IDE designed specifically for ActionScript, MXML and haXe development. Read on to find out what it can offer you! View tutorial

  • Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML

    August 23, 2011

    It makes sense to forgo database tables and server-side code when you need to store a limited amount of non-sensitive data. Accessing this data can be a snap with jQuery because the library was built to traverse XML documents with ease. With some custom JavaScript and jQuery magic you can create some interesting widgets. A…

  • Build an ActionScript 3.0 HTML Box with XML and CSS Support

    August 18, 2011

    In this tutorial, we’ll create an HTML Box which parses content loaded from XML and CSS. We’ll build it using ActionScript 3.0 so we can compile it in FlashDevelop. I’ll also demonstrate how to compile it in Flash IDE. We’ll focus on creating external script files (classes), loading and using XML and CSS files, all…

  • Quick Tip: Depth Management With the Display List in AS3

    August 17, 2011

    Moving items to top and bottom of the display list can be very useful when developing games and applications. Learn to easily manage depth using this QuickTip. View Tutorial