Artifact Interactive believes in contributing to and supporting the flash community. This section of the site includes tutorials, open source files, experiments and other resources for flash developers.

Tutorials

Building Games in Flash 5 Tutorial:

Building Games in Flash 5: part 1 (includes source files)

Building Games in Flash 5: part 2 (includes source files)

Building Games in Flash 5: part 3 (includes source files)

A printer friendly version of the three tutorials is available (as one big page).

A version of the above tutorials in Estonian.

How to ensure that the flash file has the focus
For keyboard controlled games you need to ensure that the flash file has the focus, otherwise the keypresses wont be detected. This short tutorial explains two techniques.

How do I?.....
I get a lot of emails from people asking for help - if Ive got some free time I try an answer and help but if Im busy I may ignore your email - Im sorry about that but I cant really afford to provide 24hr free help. However Ive put together a FAQ and sample fla that answers some of the more common questions.

Reference

How flash golf was built

Experiments:

3D castle

Building a mandelbrot fractal in flash 5

Raycasting in flash 5

3D texture mapping in flash 5

Image distorition experiment 1, experiment 2

Source Files:

AI Calendar : a flash 4 calendar