New look

As you may have noticed, we've changed the page's
look. That's why we haven't written for a while, but
now we're back with more interesting articles. See
you


By the way, check this songs at Newgrounds:

- Space pirates, by chainsaw_09
- Your prelude, by Bosa
- Chaoz Japan, by ParagonX9


Happy Christmas!

The composer

Do you know The Composer, by JAZZA? You can
have a look at it at Newgrounds.

"The Composer is an animation following the life cycle
of a young boy to adulthood, who uses the purity of
music to heal wounds, and inspire the hearts of others"

It is really beautiful and also quite sad, I recommend all
of you to watch it.

I think Newgrounds is a very good place to find games,
animations and music, especially music and I enjoy visiting
it to have a look at really good stuff.

Moving!

Because of some curious facts, next friday ( yes, tomorrow)
we're moving to:

http://rjflashgames.blogspot.com

So, don't forget it, don't visit rjgamez anymore if you're
looking for the best blog about flash games, visit
rjflashgames!

Escape from the time

Do you know Escape from the time, from Crazy Genius?

It's very, very good and also hard, really hard. At the
moment I'm writting this, only 189 people out of 691764
managed to beat it. Can you be number 190? I can't. I
get stuck here:




One last thing: don't try to cheat by right-clicking, it's fatal,
believe me...

Where to find good music for your games

Looking for some good music to add to your games? Have a
look at Newgrounds Audio Portal. There are lots of musics
tracks, the only thing you have to do if you add them to your
creations is to give credit to the artist.

Here you have a list of some of my favourites:

- Twilight Techno, by Dimrain 47
- Surface, by Dimrain 47
- Chaoz Fantasy, by Paragon X9
- Mazidon's Fury, by Paragon X9
- A simple Jazz, by SasquaMox
- Playing Poker, by Cheez-R-Us
- Christmas Reloaded, by RaustBlackDragon
- Polar 240, by Paragon X9

A little game by us

Flash "Find the differences" game creation tutorial - Part 1

Hi, in this tutorial we'll see how to make a flash
game similar to 5 Differences. Of course, in Flash
things can be done in lots of different ways, so we'll
cover only one of them, maybe not the best, but
it will work.


Lets see what I have in my flash document:

There are 6 layers:

- Image 1: A drawing
- Image 2: The same drawing, but with some changes
- Contour: Some black lines, to make it look better
- Button/s: In this layer I drew an invisible button
over the differences, instanced as "Df1_btn"
- Text: A dynamic text field instanced as "congrat"
- Actions: The actions layer.


In the actions layer I introduced this code:

Df1_btn.onRelease = function() {
_root.congrat.text = "Well done! You found the difference!"
};

And that's it. Lets see what do we get:

Oh, that's really primitive... when you place your mouse over the difference, it turns into a little hand. We need to solve this problem. Lets think...

If you can't see the cursor, then you won't see the
little hand... Great!
But... wait a moment... then you won't know where
your mouse is and you won't be able to play. We'll
have to make our own custom cursor.

This is very easy, don't worry. All you have to do
is to create a movie clip and link it as cursor




How do I do that!!??

Firstly, create a new MovieClip [in the image, rounded
in green] and draw an arrow.Once you have it created,
don't forget to open it's properties panel and tick
"Export for ActionScript" and give it the identifier
"cursor".

And now, the ActionScript

The only ActionScript I have is in the layer actions, in
the first frame. This is what I wrote:

Mouse.hide();
attachMovie("cursor", "cursor", 1);
cursor.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x = _xmouse;
this._y = _ymouse;
};
Df1_btn.onRelease = function() {
_root.congrat.text = "Well done! You found the difference!"
};

And that's all.


This is the final result. Of course, it's not
finished, but the rest will have to wait for
Part 2.