I like to think that I’m a responsible developer. I make good constructors and deconstructors to prevent memory leaks, I have fairly secure coding habits, I OOP the hell out of everything, and I do everything by-the-book. Imagine my frustration, then, when all of my games (particularly my latest, Steambirds) have gigantic memory leaks. Like, [...]

I had a need for this routine in Protonaut, and Ryan Madsen was gracious enough to pseudo-code this up for me. I then converted it to proper AS3 and to suit protonaut’s needs. It’s modifiable easily enough, but here’s the basic premise: Input a decimal (say, the number 1) and request an array length in [...]

EDIT: The free code-IDE FlashDevelop does a really good job of doing all these steps for you! I recommend everyone switch to it. :) One of the things that has been vexing me lately is trying to get a Flash PreLoader working for my games. I’ve tried Googling it, but there are too many like-terms: [...]