Toony Flash game prototype

I want to show you a tiny cute game which is perfect for writing a tutorial about it, and it would also be interesting to port on a mobile device. I am talking about Toony by Riccardo Amabili and it deserves some minutes of your time, trying to match falling toonies with the ones in your toolbar. In...

Understanding Box2D kinematic bodies

So you are used to work with Box2D and know everything about body types, such as static bodies and dynamic bodies… why nobody talks about kinematic bodies? I think kinematic bodies are great to do some tasks, but first let me briefly explain the difference among body types. A dynamic body is a...

Simulating mud/slime with Box2D, bitmaps and filters

This is an attempt to simulate something like mud/slime with Box2D for a game concept I am trying do develop. I won’t go much in detail with the tutorial because at the moment I am still fine-tuning the effect, but I am showing you a step by step process to achieve a slime-looking effect. First,...