Vortix Games Blog

It doesn’t look like it, but we’ve been busy!

Marco — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:55 +0000

Just letting you know that while Vlad works on some money making projects we still have this urge to publish our own games, so we are putting a bit of an effort on creating content for the game ideas we have. here’s just a little teaser. We appologize that we can’t show more, but soon enough we’ll [...]

Did you miss us?!

Vlad — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:25:25 +0000

Hi everyone, Vlad here… I know it’s getting kind of an habit, but we don’t post too much when we are on deadlines or our work-meter is sky high which is exactly our current status. Still and given the amount of email we’ve received I decided to answer it today and lighten up a bit. Some [...]

My code tricks #1: All around consistent data

Vlad — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:59:00 +0000

Sorry about not having posted too much, but deadlines have this strange habit of having a higher priority. Vlad is here trying to stay awake in this awkward coding night and to celebrate this fine hour of coding I decided to take a small break and create a new ’series’ in the blog. I’ll call [...]

Downgrading from engine to toolkit

Vlad — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:42:58 +0000

While I was discussing the release or not of Bold Pixel Engine, I came to the conclusion that it was not an engine, but a framework. What’s really the difference I wonder… I don’t know, but I did conclude that. Without googling for some reasoning and from the experience I have with game engines (not [...]

Thinking about selling your source code?

Vlad — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:07:12 +0000

Through FGL (seems all my reasoning lately is either FGL or Bold Pixel… oh well, moving on) I found a blog post from FlashNinjaClan’s webmaster, the well known Archbob. Here’s the link, come back when you finished reading it, please… Most of the post was about finding cheap games. I’m fine with that, if a portal [...]

Once upon a time in flash game development – part II

Vlad — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:50:37 +0000

This two post series started because of some difference of opinions. On one side, Greg from Kongregate. On the other Ryan from Untold Entertainment. In part I I tried to set straight my own thoughts about why is flash market different, where do we developers stand and how our expectations can make it or break [...]

Engine misconceptions

Vlad — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:25:29 +0000

Maybe I’m a bit overwhelmed with what happened this last week, but the topic that doesn’t seem to leave my head is our engine. While I was discussing the topic in FGL chat I noted again two distinct definitions of engine. What I’m aiming for with this post is to address the common misconceptions that, [...]

More testing on Actionscript’s Math class

Vlad — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:00:42 +0000

As you may have noticed I’m somewhat critical regarding the AS3 Math class. I’m a bit sick to be honest and work was flowing as I wanted to so I took 30 minutes off to test some stuff. Flooring a number Getting the nearest low integer of a number is usually achieved with Math.floor(number). If we didn’t [...]

Encyclopedia of Players

Vlad — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Disclaimer: this post, unlike most of this blog, does not have the intention to present information or discuss any particular item. It is a fun motivated post, one that should be taken lightly, with a smile and nothing else. Most if not all flash game developers have read comments about their games that triggered some feeling. [...]

The “make it fast” demo

Vlad — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:00:12 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about making code work then nice then fast. I believe that the fast part was not that obvious on how it can impact your overall game performance. So I decided to put up a simple test that is a demonstration of a real world example. We will be dealing with two of the [...]