In the past, I’ve discussed the importance of using version control and also ways for structuring your subversion repository. Today, I’d like to cover an important best practices with version control whether you are a lone wolf developer or you frequently travel in a pack.

Copy/pasted code is evil. It can get you into all sorts of trouble. There are a lot of situations in which you might be tempted to perform the dreaded ctrl-c + ctrl-v. You must resist this urge! In certain situations you can write code that is significantly more robust than copy/pasted code and you can [...]

I just attached Filippo’s post mortem for his Audience Choice winning 4kPillars to the 4K Flash Game Post Mortems article.

There are a few Open Source Actionscript projects that Urbansquall relies on for most of its games. Here’s an overview of the three open source tools that we’ve found essential to Flash game development.

GameDev.net has an excellent article on improving programmer art.