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Entries for August, 2008

Drawing in Flash or Illustrator?

When drawing for your game or animation (assuming you are using vectors), you’ll have to choose between using flash or illustrator to draw them. Choosing between the two can be a tough choice. Here are some pros and cons of each one.
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Is built in, therefore there is no need to import graphics into Flash. This [...]

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Getting Game Ideas

Stuck as a game designer without any ideas? Don’t worry too much, because the folks over at 8bitrocket have developed a game that will generate an the idea for you. With over five quadrillion (That’s right, quadrillion. It’s the number that comes after trillions.) combination, you are sure to find a unique game. Here’s my [...]

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Flash Forward Conference is Today

The Flash Forward Conference is a meeting of flash developers, with special guest speakers who will be talking to attendants until Friday evening. Guest speakers will talk about their passions as artists, graphic designers, animators, coders and more. Their will even be speakers present from Adobe and Disney. The conference will feature workshops as well [...]

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List of 20 Flash Game Blogs

Having a hard time trying to find an article on flash. Well look no further. Here’s a list of all the flash game blogs out there, organised by Alexa ranking. There’s some really great one’s in here, so take your time looking through them.

Emanuely Feronato 49,534
Flash Enabled Blog 57,621
LorenzGames Blog 112,984
Game Producer 172,407
MochiLand 178,467
8-bit Rocket [...]

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How to email a sponsor

When looking for a sponsor, you’ll be sending a lot of emails. It’s important to know how to approach a sponsor for the first time. You want to leave a good impression, so here are some tips for emailing sponsors.

Make the first move. You aren’t going to be getting emails from sponsors asking about your [...]

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