Matthew Ammann
Student, Programmer, Flash Enthusiast
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Robot Saga – Big Hit on Big Fish Games
Posted by on July 28, 2009
I’ve got great news! Robot Saga: Escape is the third most popular game in the Action & Arcade genre on Big Fish Games! It’s got about 7,300 views as of now, and is the 10th most popular online game on the entire site. We had a non-exclusive license agreement that gave me some extra cash [...]
Greasemonkey AFK Color Chooser Script (Kongregate)
Posted by on July 27, 2009
Kongregate users, Have you ever wanted to change the color of the AFK (Away From Keyboard) users in Kongregate chat? Now you can. I’ve designed a script, with a lot of help from Ventero, that allows you to change the color of the users that are AFK to whatever color you want using hexadecimal colors. [...]
SoundObject Class Tutorial [AS3]
Posted by on July 24, 2009
During development of my latest game, Robot Saga: Escape, I created a custom class from scratch that is designed to increase efficency. This class, called SoundObject, is used to manage all the sound functions for my other class files. This allowed me to simply call a SoundObject function from the other classes without having to [...]
Inside Robot Saga: Escape
Posted by on July 16, 2009
Every developer has to keep things organized. Since I usually have multiple applications going at once, I write things down. These notes can be anything from Known Bugs to ideas about future game features. Here are some of the things I wrote down while developing Robot Saga: Escape:
Robot Saga: Escape
Posted by on July 16, 2009
Robot Saga: Escape is now out! It is the second game I’ve created in Flash, but this time I used Actionscript 3. It is based on the Avoider Game tutorials by Michael James Williams, but it is very much my own creation. It took about 3 weeks to create and another week to debug. I [...]
