Game Design & Development Tutorials

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Build a Stage3D Shoot-'Em-Up: Terrain, Enemy AI, and Level Data
We're creating a high-performance 2D shoot-em-up using Flash's new hardware-accelerated Stage3D rendering engine. In this part of the series we add new enemy...
Christer Kaitila
28 Mar 2012
Game Design
How to Create an HTML5 Hangman Game With Canvas: Bells and Whistles
Welcome to the second part of this HTML5 Hangman game tutorial. Now that the basic gameplay is completed, we'll add extra bells and whistles: a localStorage...
James Tyner
18 Mar 2012
Game Design
How to Create an HTML5 Hangman Game With Canvas: The Basic Gameplay
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an HTML5 hangman game. In this first part, we will build the basic game, using HTML buttons for input, the...
James Tyner
11 Mar 2012
Game Design
Create a Simple Space Shooter Game in HTML5 With EaselJS
Last year, I showed you how to create a shoot-'em-up game with Flash and AS3. With HTML5's rise in popularity (and capabilities), let's take a look at how to...
Carlos Yanez
29 Feb 2012
Game Design
Create a Pong Game in HTML5 With EaselJS
In this tutorial, we'll create a clone of the classic game, Pong, in HTML5, using the EaselJS library. The game will have multiple screens, sound effects,...
Carlos Yanez
24 Jan 2012
Game Design
Create a Whack-a-Mole Game in HTML5 With EaselJS
A few weeks ago, I showed you how to create a Whack-a-Mole (well, Whack-a-Worm) game using Flash and AS3. Now, following on from my introduction to EaselJS,...
Carlos Yanez
16 Dec 2011
Game Design
Create a Whack-a-Mole Game in Flash With AS3
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create your own version of the classic Whack-a-Mole game - only, our unfortunate creatures of choice will be worms....
Carlos Yanez
12 Oct 2011
Game Design
Create an Atari Inspired Boxing Game With AS3
In this Premium Tutorial, you'll learn to create an entertaining retro game using Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Check out the demo - the result is based on the...
Carlos Yanez
13 Sep 2011
Game Design
Create a Flickr-Based Pairs Game With Flash: The Interface
We've successfully made the core of our game, but only being able to play one level is kind of boring, so let's now set up our game so we can play multiple...
James Tyner
6 Sep 2011
Game Design
Create a Flickr-Based Pairs Game With Flash: The Basics
In this tutorial you’ll learn to build a card-matching game, in Flash, that uses Flickr as the source of its images. The first part of this two-part series...
James Tyner
29 Aug 2011
Game Design
Create a "Frenzic" Inspired Puzzle Game in Flash
Take a look at this Premium Tutorial to create an entertaining puzzle game, inspired by Frenzic, using Flash and ActionScript 3.
Carlos Yanez
7 Jul 2011
Game Design
Create a "Rapid Roll" Game in Flash
Take a look through this Premium Tutorial and create an entertaining falling platforms game using Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Don't hit the purple platforms...
Carlos Yanez
22 Jun 2011
Game Design