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MP3 isn't suited for looping and is generally low-tech. (HE-)AAC would solve all problems, but the AS3 API gets in the way. 

If you’re a flash game developer you should know that in order to make a good game, you have to spend a considerable amount of time developing it. Usually, the time you spend making your game is analogous to the quality of game that you make. But, sometimes, the time you spend developing the game might not be worth the money you earn.

Scene Monitor allows a user to visibly explore the structure of a scene graph while the application is running. A tree model captures all elements of the jME scene graph and allows for easy visual inspection.

The Chatbot Game is a bit like a social news site. To play the game, you submit chat rules, which you can think of as being similar to news submissions. Voting on these chat rules occurs during the chats. Spying on chats involving your rules corresponds to viewing your news submissions' comments. Your score corresponds to karma.

I’ve titled this post as a “Programming” brain teaser because ideally you could solve it in any language. For the sake of the exercise, I’m going to show sample code in JavaScript, but feel free to use your language of choice. But first and foremost, the reason I’m writing about this is because I ran into a logic problem last week which I thought I would be able to solve in two seconds. Sadly it wasn’t the case so I’d like to share that same problem.

This weeks puzzle is a nice and simple one to ease all those with sore heads from the July 4th celebrations back into thinking code...

A thorough tutorial for introducing people to game programming and J2ME (no Java experience required!). Explained in great detail and clear language. Highly recommended for programming beginners and people starting out with games programming.

CodeRally combines competition with collaboration in networked races of up to 100 human-controlled cars, all Java-coding their way around the same crowded course. The competition and competitiveness actually makes users end up coding better and faster.

In this tutorial I will be going over some of the basic elements to making a game in Flash. In this, being the first in a short series of tutorials on the subject, I will cover the main game loop and keyboard controls involved in an "Asteroids" type game.

Some time ago I decided to write a simple template to facilitate the task of creating a new J2ME project. The template is a Netbeans project that can be used as a base to build a J2ME game or application.

You have a ton of menus in your game (graphical user interfaces, or GUIs for short). Sometimes when a new menu appears, you want it to appear over the previous menu, but keep the previous menu visible so that when the new menu goes away, the parent menu is still there. Sometimes you want a menu to replace another menu when it comes in. How do you handle all of this menu logic? How do you control which menus are active and how do you change menus?

If war stories of things like shaking wire-wrapped boards to make the assembler code work right; combined with a degree of pragmatism towards programming that you only get after discovering for the umpteenth time that the problem wasn’t your code but a bad EPROM burn (or after discovering that your colleague with the wonderful new ideas on Agile programming has actually never seen a command line in his life) sounds like a stonking good read to you, you need to read DadHacker. Set aside a few hours. Add it to your google reader or whatever feedreader you’re using or just into your daily links. Yes, it is that good. via Ewan’s blog.

We've decided to do a recurring feature at LessThanDot and have a "Programmer Puzzles" section with interesting puzzles published. This week the challenge is to identify the outer points in a regular pentagon (or n-sided polygon for extra credit), given the center point and the radius. You can use any programming language you like, just please let people know which one you have decided to use!

I'm a big fan of pet projects. You know the ones I mean: the projects we love to start and hate to finish. The two-week remodeling gig that takes two years. The '69 Mustang sitting on cinderblocks in the back yard while seasons rotate. The unfinished novel lurking on the nether regions of your hard drive. And for programmers and poker players around the world, a million unfinished tools and libraries ranging from the ingenious to the depressingly obscure. Today, I'd like to talk to you about a pet project which is actually worth your time.

What is game programming and how does that differ from other types of programming? This is one of the most common questions I see when it comes to game development and rightly so.

My first day starting my own company making Flash games.

I've been neglecting this blog but I have the perfect excuse: I was very busy creating my very first Silverlight Game. Actually my very first game ever.