Especially important for Vista users, there is a new release of Flash Develop.

It turns out the preloader code in The Last Preloader You’ll Ever Need was not without its flaws. Today’s article presents an updated preloader that eliminates the added Flex framework fluff in the original preloader, and provides a helper class, SimulatedPreloader, that makes it super easy to test your preloader code.

You followed the steps in Makes Flash Games for Free and you’re already working on your next game masterpiece. Unfortunately, sometimes you write code that the Flash Player doesn’t like, and unless you’ve set up your project to test with the external player, this could mean you spend the next 10 minutes trying to convince [...]

Several years ago when I first got started in Flash game development (2003 if you’re counting), Actionscript 2.0 was the new kid on the block, appearing along side the cutting edge Flash Player 7 and the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 IDE. If you wanted to build a Flash game, that was pretty much your only [...]