The “Adorninho against the Tsunami” was one of the victims and stayed the whole day unavaiable even for our players, everything looks fine now because we restored our old version from Mochiads.

We apologize all our players at adorninho.com but many games were lost with this and may never come back again.

Rest in peace GameJacket.

There are really great submissions and even know that I can’t beat many of them I decided to try something just for fun, and obviously that I should try a game.

The rules were simple, there was a short “gimme framework” composed of a few characters that basically should allow you to create something nice with more 140 characters of code, inside a enter frame loop.  See the Gimme code below, the /*src*/ should be replaced by your code in order to compile:

g=graphics;mt=g.moveTo;lt=g.lineTo;ls=g.lineStyle;m=Math;r=m.random;s=m.sin;i=0;o={};function f(e){ /*src*/}addEventListener(”enterFrame”,f);

With the games in mind I start to create some obscure code and finally sent 2 entries, the first one is the “Catch the square game”, the original ide is that you should move your mouse around the screen trying to catch the square and each time you roll over it you should score some points, but in the end the code had more than the double of characters allowed and I have to give up of many things, in the final version you just try to move the simple lined character over the square, all of this with 140 characters of code. Check the code and the visual result below:

g.clear();if(i)mt(q,j);v=i++%10<1;q=mouseX,j=mouseY;ls(3*r());lt(q,j);g.drawCircle(q,j,10*r());g.drawRect(w=v?500*r():w,h=v?500*r():h,50,50)

The second entry was just a improvement I did on the code in the next morning, I compact more the code, substitute the square for a circle and bring some colors on, check the code and result below:

d=g.drawCircle;g.clear();i?mt(q,j):0;v=i++%15<1;q=mouseX,j=mouseY;ls(3*r(),0xFF*r());lt(q,j);d(q,j,10*r());d(w=v?500*r():w,h=v?500*r():h,50)

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I really enjoy the challenge, and in the end the whole code (including the gimme framework) have only 173 characters of actionscript, it’s definetively a great result for just this amount of code.

There was a lot of other great pieces of code and you can check more in the official event page.

The main features of new player are 3D effects, custom filters and effects, advanced text support, among others that you can check here.

What are you waiting for? Go check the video and download the player: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

It’s a very early release and could be many change as the project grows, right now the library already includes many features as the integration with most of avaiable engine libraries and 3 primitive types.

Example of a basic implementation

Read more about the release on the oficial post here, or access the project page.

You are free to distribute or publish this games in any website accross the web, remember to always give the credits of games to Adorninho.com Team and put a link to our portal (www.adorninho.com).

The Coconut Game package can be downloaded at http://www.adorninho.com/services/packs/coconut_game_v1_8.zip

The Adorninho against the Tsunami package can be downloaded at http://www.adorninho.com/services/packs/adorninho_against_the_tsunami_v1_3.zip

That’s it! Help us spreading the games around the globe!

You can check the post here.

The developers that already uses the mochiads system in theyr games will soon start to see the google ads working. The ads will be released only in Europe in its first stage, and then spread to target world-wide advertisers.

This inniciative should help rising the eCPM of many foreign portals where the actual MochiAds advertises aren’t interested in and provide significant increasing in the developers revenue.

You can read more about it in the official MochiLand blog, and here.

Adorninho contra o Tsunami

Primarily the game was designed to be casual, with a short and fun gameplay. In order to put a “one-more-time” feeling in the game, the competition element was exploited by placing many checkpoints inside the game where you can make much more points than just completing the levels.

You can play the game here, hope you enjoy it! Good luck while running from the tsunami!

A prove of it is the kind of support stuff that appear on the web every day, and this one really deserve this post:

I use 2 opensource programs: FlashDevelop, a well known actionscript editor and Haxe, the opensource compiler from Nicolas Canasse the same guy that created MTASC. Note that the FlashDevelop program have some dependencies that you may need to download, the .NET Framework and the Java runtime. But don’t worry, both are free.

First step, you can download the last version of FlashDevelop here and install it.

Then you just need to download the Haxe compiler here and install it.

Is everything installed? Great! Now we’ll just set up the Haxe configs and create our first project. Open the FlashDevelop and find in the menu Tools>Program Settings… or just type F10. The Program Settings window should open, let’s just configure the Haxe folder path. Click at HaxeContext in the plugins list, then you’ll see the options for the haxe compiler, just set the right path where the program was installed in the Haxe Path option, it should look like C:\[your windows program files]\Motion-Twin\haxe

Now we just need to create a new Haxe project and start the fun, in the menu choose the option Project>New Project… and then scroll down the list to find the Haxe options, choose AS3 Project and then name it and find an empty folder to create the project, click OK when ready.

Like magic your project is created and now you just need to browse through the classes at the right panel of the program and find the Main class of the application, it is already configured to Haxe standards and you just need to open it and type inside the main() function the following: trace(”Hello World”);. Now you just press the Test Movie button in the toolbar or press the infamous ctrl+ENTER shortcut.

Ta-dah! Like magic you should see your first opensource-generated swf in front of you. Now you go ahead and dive into Haxe’s world to find all the greatest features this compiler provides!