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Making a Median Filter for Stage3d

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Sam Driver
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Stepping through the process of creating a realtime median filter shader for Stage3d that pushes affectionately against the platform’s limits.

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Stage3D Resource Links

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Sam Driver
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A collection of the most useful Stage3D links I’ve come across.

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Particles Redux

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Sam Driver
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In the far distant past of last October I showed a little Stage3D accelerated particle system. Displaying a fantastic rate of progress I’ve made the same thing again, but this time it’s better, and uses HaXe.

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Dealing With AGAL Registers

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Sam Driver
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A thorough tutorial on the use of registers for AGAL shaders. How to go about setting their values and accessing them in the shader.

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Accelerated Particle Effects

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Sam Driver
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Not (yet) a tutorial this time, just the demonstration of a GPU-based particle system and a glimpse at the advantages of hardware acceleration.

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Simple Annotated Example of Stage3D

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Sam Driver
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The first step is often the hardest. Here I provide a very simple example of rendering using Stage3D, complete with extensive comments.

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Stage3D Shader Cheatsheet

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Sam Driver
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A quick reference for working with AGAL, the new shader language for use with Stage3D introduced with Flash Player 11.

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Normal Mapped Lighting in a Game

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Sam Driver
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2D Shadow Effects

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Sam Driver
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Introduction to Pixel Bender in Flash

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Sam Driver
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A quite detailed tutorial on creating custom shaders in Pixel Bender and using them in your Flash projects.

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Testing out Pixel Bender

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Sam Driver
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A Bitwise Method For Applying Tilemaps

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Sam Driver
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A technique for automatically selecting the correct tile from a tilemap.
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Procedural Progression

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Sam Driver
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The outline for a method to incorporate lock-and-key style progression in a generated game world.

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Fez Rip-off

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Sam Driver
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There’s a lovely game that’s been in development by Polytron Corporation for a bit over two years now called Fez.  What really captured my imagination was the basic mechanic of the game – so much so I tried copying it.

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On the Intelligence of Maggots

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Sam Driver
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An explanation of the path-finding system used in Maggot Blaster, and how it was used for more than finding paths.

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Simple Procedural Building Generation

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Sam Driver
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Outlining a technique to rapidly generate top-down buildings, with a focus on their use as gameplay elements.
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Maggot Blaster 500

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Sam Driver
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Maggot Blaster is now almost finished, just needing a little more testing before I start seeking a sponsorship deal ready for it to be released.  This post gives a brief overview of the game. Continue reading “Maggot Blaster 500” »

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