Posts Tagged ‘Optimization’

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Making Scrollable Tiles with UV Offsets in Stage3D and AGAL

In the last gamejam I participated (Ludumdare #23), I used the sweet and oh-so-sexy Axel Library! It’s by far my favorite Stage3D 2-dimensional library at this point. If you’re a ...

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Flash Developer Life: My personal AS4 Language Wishlist

Even if Adobe has already carved in stones what the next iteration of the ActionScript language will contain, I think it’s worth that each of us Flash developers shout out ...

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AS3 Level-4: Say Hello to XAGAL, the XML AGAL interpreter (part 4)

For the past few days, I have been experimenting with various options of writing AGAL code in ways that would be easier to follow than the raw code itself. I’ll ...

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Clean Coding: Refactoring a large project, in baby steps

If you have ever worked on a large project (or you are currently), you may have experienced the Janitorial-syndrome, which is “Man, I wish there was a virtual Janitor that ...

Instantiation Optimization

While I was reading the PDF “Introduction to Starling” (downloadable here), I stumbled upon a pixel-level collision detection example. When I noticed the code involved instantiating a new Point for ...