New Website

I have just started a new website, its not that big yet but is growing every day. It has a few of my games on there at the moment, but i am writing some tutorials that i hope will benifit you.

you can view it here!

http://blog.tudwaythecore.com

thanks, this might be my last blogspot post.

SteerWheels

Here is my new game SteerWheels!
You can play it here
It is a fun, interesting physics based game where you have to push the ball to the bar using the car (controlled by the arrow keys).

I created it back in february, but i acquired sponsorship for this game so me and my sponsor, GamesReloaded.com, spent the rest of the time tweaking it so that it was as perfect as could be managed.

It was made using CS3 (obviously) and APE, which is an open source flash physics engine. which is free and really easy to pick up. I will make a tutorial on the basics later.

This was also an experiment to see if i could make some money on a flash game. i have deduced that you can make anything from a really small amount to a massive sum.

One last thing for you to look at. 

SteerWheels Stats!

These are the mochibot stats for SteerWheels and they are updated daily, so you can see how many websites and views the game has got. Even though it says the game has been out for 90 odd days, it has actually only been out for 7 days, So these stats are quite impressive (i think).

Feel free to comment!

Sound in flash cs3 part 2 - pause

Ok, starting off with an example, heres an example where it loops infinitely and you are able to pause and resume it.

The code hasn't changed much but there are some subtle differences that have a lot of effect on the outcome.

When the pause button is pressed a new variable is set which tells the play button where to replay the sound from. Lets look at the code.

import flash.media.Sound;
var sound:Sound = new acoust();
var channel:SoundChannel;
var soundisplaying:Boolean = false;
var pausePosition:int = 0
playbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playsound);
stopbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopsound);
function playsound(event:Event):void {
if (soundisplaying==false) {
channel = sound.play(pausePosition);
soundisplaying = true;

channel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);
}
}
function stopsound(event:Event):void {
pausePosition = channel.position;
channel.stop();
soundisplaying =false;
}
function soundComplete(event:Event):void {
channel = sound.play();
channel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);
}

Ok, the new pause position variable is the first new thing, it is set at 0 when the movie starts, this is the start of the sound.

The next change is within the soundplay function. Where instead of the channel = sound.play(0, 99) with channel.play(pausePosition), so to recap, this is to play the sound from pauseposition, which i set earlier.

Next i add the event listener for when the sound finishes, so i can loop it. ( i can't loop it the way i did last time as this interferes with the pause function)

The next change is the most important one, where i update the pausePosition when the stopbut button is pressed. This sets the place from which you can resume the play back when you press play.

The last thing i changed was to make a function which loops the music, it literally checks to see if the sound has finished and then replays the sound if it is.

Ok thats the basic sound tutorials over.