Would It Cost Money To Have Online Flash Game?
Aug 27, 2009If we made a game in flash that has online, would it cost money to have the online server or something?
View 3 RepliesIf we made a game in flash that has online, would it cost money to have the online server or something?
View 3 RepliesI am a web designer and have a client who is interested in having a game application created similar to farmville or mafiawars on facebook. This is outside of my realm of Flash for sure and would have to be handled by someone else.I realize there are many factors that affect this question but could anyone give me a ballpark cost of creating an application like that? My client is just curious as to the realistic possibility cost wise?
View 1 RepliesI'm working on a game where I need to have a variable for money and a variable for Health, or in my case, I call it Energy. Most tutorials I'm finding are in AS2 and the AS3 ones are not this basic thing that I need. Basically, I have an item shop with a pizza button, and in their respective dynamic text fields, you can see the status of your Energy and your Money. So, let's say the person clicks the pizza to buy it, Flash will subtract 10 (for 10 bucks) from the person's total money value and add 15 for total Energy points.This is what I've written so far and I'm writing all the script in Flash, not outside using classes or packages. I can tell already that I'm missing something. How do I write it so that Flash knows to add 15 Energy from that Pizza button and can I update the values of the variables and kick off that mouse event in the same function?[code]
View 2 RepliesThere are a lot of flash games that ask u to do repetitive actions. An example would be FarmVille or getting statistics on on-line poker game. What is the best way to create an interface between what you see on the screen, a bot's algorithm and clicking of the mouse. So basically, when I'm playing a texas hold'em on face book and if I get AA I want the bot to click all-in. If I don't get AA I want to fold. This is just an example, not the actual strategy. Or another examples would be routing tasks in farmville. So basically. It has to grab a picture of the screen. recognize patterns and convert them into an input of the algorithm. The output algorithms would be clicking on some other (may be same) patterns.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to develop a simple Flash game using Actionscript 2 (I know its a bit dated, but its a simple project that doesen't benefict much from AS3), and I came up with an ideia of implementing an online leaderboard that records and shows the highscore of the player.
This isn't anything too complicated, but I seem to be having problem finding resources online that explain how I should implement this. All I want is a call, probably to a PHP/MySQL database that records the player's name (which will be recorded via a input window) and its current score. It would also have to show the best all time scores, by order. I should remind you that I am working on a Actionscript 2 so Actionscript 3 solutions are probably not going to work.
I want to know if there is any way to creat an online multiplayer game using flash or flex (flash builder).
View 1 RepliesI'm, working on this pool game: [URL] open it in TWO browser windows you will see that the 2 player modus starts. When you make a shot, every shot gets copied to the other player. Unfortunately it is not precise enough. The player makes the shot with this code:
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I am going to create a online game, so what is better, JavaFX or Flash?
View 3 RepliesI want to make a multiplayer flash game- something very basic, like each person controls a dot which they can move around (doing this as a learning experience, not because it seems like a great concept for a game ). I'm pretty new to PHP and mySQL, and don't have a lot of experience in making flash apps that interact with outside scripts... and here's the approach i've thought up so far.i design the swf so that every 30th of a second or so it checks an xml file on the server (http:servernamedata.xml), and also sends a request to the server to run a php script and sends it four boolean values (which keys the player is pressing). The php script runs- it loads a mysql database which has each players x/y coordinates, adjusts those coordinates according to the bool (if player is pressing keys), resends the x/y coordinates to the mysql database, and generates an updated version of the xml, which the swf running on each players client computer will check to determine where to draw each dot.So to get to the point, what i want to know is:
1: is what i described even possible?
2: if it can be done, is this a good way to go about it or is it horribly innefficient (i eventually want to make games more complicated than moving dots around, and have as much code run server-side as possible to prevent hacking/cheating)
3: if this is a possible and OK way to do this, what sort of AS3 script do you use to make a flash app have a server execute a php script?
if anyone knows of any great tutorials on building an online mulitplyer game
View 1 RepliesI'm making an online game where you can walk around in a city, and you see the others walk around as well at the same time. I made the script in php. The problem now is: I'm loading vars from flash out of the php-file, I know I can fool the cache by adding a unique number to it. That works, but I'm loading the php-file every second and if you look at your temporary internet files, you get a list of maybe thousand times the same php-file. In the beginning that didn't really matter, but now when I look at my site stats the list is like 5000 pages long... There must be an other way to fool the cache. And I was thinking about an old html-tag I used once to make sure your html-file wasn't loaded from cache: [URL].
View 1 RepliesHow much does a reference/pointer to an object cost in terms of memory and performance in Actionscript 3? Are weak references( using Dictionary object) less, the same or more overhead?
View 1 RepliesI'm developing a multi-player game and I know nothing about how to connect from one client to another via a server. Where do I start? Are there any whizzy open source projects which provide the communication framework into which I can drop my message data or do I have to write a load of complicated multi-threaded sockety code? Does the picture change at all if teh clients are running on phones?
View 4 RepliesI was wondering if anyone has attempted in profiting off of using Flash to make useful applications? I started the website [URL] which the products are both made in flash (one of the members here coded it for me). I am just interested in seeing if anyone else has tried selling flash as software? If your wondering I have sold about $450 worth of the basketball/football one and just started the first aid one
View 1 RepliesSo I was wondering does it cost extra memory when I import vector art stuff from Illustrator (CS5) to Flash (CS5) rather than making the shapes in Flash? Maybe Illustrator sends some meta data as well when importing so it may use more memory.
View 3 RepliesI've been looking on the net for some time now (about 4 weeks on and off) and i've come across various ways of producing high score tables for both online and offline games. My query is:
Is it possible to produce a high score table for an online game using a document in the same location as the swf without using a PHP, SQL or any of the like languages? Either using a text document, xml, another swf or something else like that?
I want to create one calculator which will calculate the future cost of education after certain years like 10 or 15 yr. If i take the inflation rate as 10%. How to calculate the future cost.I don't have any idea about it. I want to know the formula to get the output.
View 3 Repliesvar score:int = 100;var money:int = 200; btnfeed.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,feed);function feed(event:MouseEvent) { if ((score == 200)&&(money <= 0)) { score += 0; money -= 0; Cash.text = String(money)
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i want it to add $5 to the total amount of money, but the problem is, is that my code doesnt work, in the frame actions i have:
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What is an easy way to format a number to money? I want to add commas for every thousand, and force the decimal to 2 digits.
View 4 RepliesHas anyone tried using flash media server 4 on Amazon web service? I was wondering what your experience was and the costs of running it?
View 1 RepliesI'd just like to know whether I'm wasting my time bothering to contact some annoying sales people, if it is out of our price range. This is most likely for deployment of a Flex/Java app in a clustered environment. Community edition is not going to work here.
View 2 RepliesI build signs for a living and I want to create an form that will calculate the cost of materials based on an initial size of the sign. I am at step one with the scripting after having laid out some input text fields for width, height, and area. The catch is this. I need the area text field (named A_txt) to calculate the width input text field (named W_txt) and height input text field (H_txt) and auto update A_txt as the numbers are inputed on the user side. The area text field will be the initial number for other calculations later in the form for determining the price of the customers sign.
View 5 RepliesI create this : function money () {total++;income.text=total;} and a button. income.text is added by 1 each time the button is onRelease. I need only 1 point to be added no matter how many time the button is pressed.
View 8 RepliesI have a program that adds values together. I need the variable to display with 2 decimal places. Right now $1.50 would look like: 1.5
How do I make Flash display the zero automatically?
I am currently writing a Flash AS3 website where users upload file(s), I take payment, and when payment has been received, the files are emailed to me to be processed, all within the same SWF.
I can get the upload and email part all working nicely. My question is about the payment part. Ideally, I would like to use Paypal but the critical point is that payment and then confirmation must all be within the same SWF. If Paypal directs to another page and returns to a different URL (or the same one for that matter), the SWF would have ended which would be a problem for the emailing part.
Is there a solution for Paypal to take money within the same SWF and just allow further functions to run on confirmation?
The code runs fine, but the problem I'm having is that the text box that is suppose to go onto of my answer buttons is behind the button itself... however, if I change two lines of code around, the answer validation code doesn't pick up the which answer was clicked (it returns undefined). This is infuriating!Look for the line "//INSERT HERE." If I take the line, "var answerField:TextField = createText(answer,answerFormat,answerSprite,0,0,450);" and put it there instead, it returns the right answers (doesn't return undefined), but I can no longer see the text. I've included the createText function as well.
private function askQuestion()
{
trace("asking question...");
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I have a simple money script [for my game] and I want to say, ok when I walk over a coin, I want it to add $5 to the total amount of money, but the problem is, is that my code doesn't work, in the frame actions I have:
Code:
money = 0;
and in the hitTest for the coin I have:
Code:
if (_root.dude.hitTest(_root.coin) {
_root.money +1
}
I'm creating a game at the moment for my university course and it involves the player character jumping on top of boxs twice to break them as opposed to just once.What would be the most efficient/simple way of writing this in Actionscript 3.
View 1 RepliesI am thinking of developing of a game like this: [URL]... Do you have any idea - by which game engine I may develop this type of games? I am not sure whether I have to use any 3d physics engine? I think JiglibFlash may be useful, but I am not sure.
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