Flash
Articles and demos built in Flash and ActionScript: 3D engines, animation and games, played in the browser by Ruffle. 18 articles.
Mini Tetris
A basic, fully functioning tetris engine in Flash that is easy to understand and translate into another language.
16 April 2010Quake 2D
Zero calorie deathmatch: a two-player Flash game in a large level, a tighter small level, and walls that bullets can destroy.
19 August 2007CubeLogix 3D website
A Flash 3D engine with real-time shadows: navigation breaking through the background, with cubes and windows casting accurate shadows.
4 March 2007Flash smoke
A smoke effect in six versions: smokey motion, smooth particles, lines, a grid with scale and fade, and direction and scale.
30 October 2005Flash bubbles
Simple example of animation with friction and wind, in two versions.
12 October 2005Flash panorama ball
Simulating affine texture mapping with shears on triangular MovieClips: a sphere built by easing, texture mapped, then viewed from inside as a panorama.
28 May 2005Flash ZoomGrid
A zooming grid built two ways: a simple overlay method and an optimised binary method.
23 May 2005Flash bouncing ball
A bouncing ball: a simple animation example for ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0.
21 November 2004Flash 3D: landscape
Flying over a Cartesian terrain with a generated heightmap: a simple version, then faded edges and reflected symmetry.
19 May 2004Flash growing things
Particle trails making plant-like patterns: simple cracks, branching parameters, an oil spill and plants.
17 May 2004Flash 3D: cubes reflection
Combining reflections and shadow casting: three cubes over a reflective surface with a moving light, then a wavey distortion.
8 May 2004Flash chess
The simplest chessboard ever: turn-based, two players on one PC, drag and drop the pieces to move them.
16 March 2004Meteora
A two-player Flash game example.
6 March 2004Flash 3D mixer
How to overlay Flash with a transparent background over your HTML.
3 December 2003Flash circle strips
Circle strips: a simple animation example for ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0.
24 July 2002Flash 3D: intersection
Intersecting 3D objects in Flash: eleven versions, from outlines and polygon splits to intersecting squares and cubes.
2 July 2002Flash 3D: cubes navigation
Simple objects, rotation and hit testing: solid cubes drawn with the painter's algorithm, masks, mouseover events and a wavey effect.
11 June 2002Flash dust
Dust: a simple animation example for ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0.
22 May 2002