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Entries for May, 2008

Physics Engines

When you need to use a physics engine, whether it is for an amazing game or just for learning, it helps to have choices. Here are the two different engines I have found to be useful. Both are free, and by the same company.
Actionscript Physics Engine (APE)

APE is the newer of the two versions. It [...]

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Sponsorship vs Licence

Sponsorships and licenses, while both are ways to make you money off your game, are fairly different. Make sure you know what each one is before you go out looking to get money from your game. Remember that you can do both sponsorships and licenses to get the most possible out of your hard work.
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Nonoba’s Multiplayer API Competition

The gaming site Nonoba has just announced a competition for flash game developers with $20,000 in cash prizes. All you have to do is create a game using their multiplayer API system, upload it to Nonoba and wait. The winner of the competition will recieve a grand prize of $15,000. Second place will get $3,000 [...]

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Particle Effects

While searching the web, I came across a site that had excellent particle effects.
It was wondertouch. The site sells premade effects, as well as a program for making effects. The explosions were very good, and the other effects seemed decent too. The program is called particleIllusion3.0 and it allows you to make countless different effects. [...]

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MochiAds Revenue Sharing for Publishers

MochiAds has recently updated their site to allow revenue sharing for owners of gaming sites. This is great for not only site owners, but developers as well. Site owners can now share in the revenue that mochiAds makes for the developers, giving them another source of income besides ads. As a site owner you can [...]

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