It’s been a very time and energy consuming task, but I’m happy with the results. Hope you enjoy them!

How to Make UI Components for FlashPunk Games (part 1)

FlashPunk UI Components: Advanced Graphics, Extra Skins, and Polish (part 2)

As you may have noticed, I have moved this blog! Now I am AbelToy.com, instead of the old AberuStudios.com. Abel Toy is… well, just my name. Sounds more professional than Aberu Studios I think, and it’s great.

I’ll still keep aberustudios.com though, but it justs goes here as well. This way if I forget to change a single link on the web, everything will still be alright.

The change is not only a domain change though… I have also changed the server. I was on a dedicated server before because I needed a few things running on ruby on rails (PunkWeek + AberuStudios.com older website). Now, I’ve closed PunkWeek and this website has been a wordpress blog for a long time so… I had no need to mantain an expensive dedicated server…

Currently I am on a humble shared server, paying $5 a month (first 6 months free) instead of the previous $17 a month. Quite a change, right?

Hopefully everything goes well and this hosting can handle the HUGE ammount of users coming to my website daily (ha, ha, ha.)

Arrivederci (just got back from a trip to Rome, so I know a bit of Italian now, yaaaay… apologises for the wrong vocabulary/grammar/ortography)

Kodama

Kodama is a HUGE project, and it needs tons of work. There has been problems with the other team members (artists and level designer), and I have had my own problems with the coding. Now I’m porting it to haXe and it’s a huge amount of work.

There’s more info about kodama on the Kodama devblog.

Personal projects

I’ve been playing with as3 and haXe on my own, personal projects, but I think all of them are abandoned now and I’m not sure if they will ever be published.

One of them was an attempt to extend the ‘Accident’ game into a fully-featured and highly-published flash game… but I’m still stuck at finding a good artist, and I don’t have time to code on it right now. Aaah, I wish I could…

Another of my personal projects is a mobile game, for android and iOs. I want to fully do it, so I’m a bit stuck at animating… and I know I will be stuck at level design (it’s a puzzle game). This one is an evolution to an older, web-flash-game prototype I had… the idea is not really original, but I’m hoping this will get me a bit of money! :)

Life

Well… what can I say? Everyone has his own life and occupations. Going out with friends is a good way of being busy, and I enjoy it… but studying, I really hate that!!

Secret Project

This is a job someone gave to me, but it’s top secret until it’s released, although I have already finished my part on it. It’s basically a port of a commercial AS2 game to the iOs platforms (iPad + iPhone)… I’ll post about it when it’s released! =)

Future

My plans for the future are:

• Obviously finish Kodama, which will be a very difficult, time-consuming and lengthy task.
• Finish that mobile game of my own I was talking about, and sometime in the future find an artist and finish the full version of Accident. I won’t work on this till I’m a bit less busy.
• Life: well… I’ve got some things planned… but that’s personal and this is not facebook, this is my personal development blog :)
• Rythm Game: I WANT TO MAKE A RYTHM GAME! Later… later… I don’t even have the time to work on the current projects, I can’t start more!
• Writing: this is something I have started recently. I am writing tutorials on coding / FlashPunk and other related secret things (will talk about them IF they happen) for money… I think I have more than enough knowledge on flashPunk and AS3 to do this… and I love money!

So now you know why this isn’t updated very often… oh my god I need some help and 64 hours per day! T_T

Devlog here! http://kodama.indieis.me/devlog/

If you read the post yesterday you know there has been some problems with Ele-Copter and Bored.com… well, they are solved now!

Thanks to FlashGameLicense, to Bored.com and to YOU for sharing this, everything has got sorted out. It was a problem with Bored.com communication with the accountant, and it has been solved!

So yeah, thanks everyone :)

Edit: Bored.com kindness level up: they are paying for the paypal fees + extra $25 for the problems!

Check the original post here:

Hey,

I’m here to talk about what has happened with my game Ele-Copter. I first wanted to make a game in a weekend for facebook, those simple helicopter games, but then Chris and I went to make a more complicated flash game for sponsorship.

So, after we made the game, we submitted it to FGL. We waited a looooong time, emailed tons of people… and got 1 answer. From Bored.com. They were interested in sponsoring our game. For $900.

We were more than happy. I implemented their complex api, I got in touch with them with skype, and took a bunch of days to get it ready. Then, I sent it to them, and they asked the payment method we wanted. I gave them all the payment details, and they seemed to be interested in paying, and worried because we were not receiving the money.

FAKE.

It’s been more than a month and we still have not received anything. Not even FGL, which was through paypal (which is instant). Shame, Bored.com. It’s a shame. They even pretended they were interested. Now, they don’t answer back. They simply ignore us. That’s terrible.

They even didn’t tell us when the game was uploaded. I explicity asked them to notify us as soon as its uploaded. I discovered it through google and it had been published 6 days already.

Even more terrible, FGL itself is ignoring us. We contacted them about the issue, they contacted us back asking some questions, we replied… and done? We even sent another email asking if there was any problems, why weren’t they answering. NOTHING. No answer.

So here’s the situation: Bored.com has stolen our game, and not even FGL will help us. But, I won’t stop doing WHATEVER I can to get the money back. Or to make them remove the game from anywhere it’s been uploaded. ANYWHERE.

Please, help me by sharing this post everywhere. Please!

I made a game in 0 hours this night. (hint: time shift, clock went from 02:59:59 a.m. to 02:00:00 a.m.)

It’s about my hand fighting my other hands an, at the end, myself.

Enjoy Hand Hand Hand!

You can enjoy the other games and see what’s this about here! http://0hgame.eu/

Timelapse here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELsiHMGAj4

This is another attempt of making a blog, hopefully the successful one! This time, the design does not constrain me to make long posts, so I will be able to type short but important things, and I won’t have to force myself on writing long things (and thus, writing less and less because I’m a lazy bitch)

So what will I talk about here? Well… random thoughts I have and what happens in my game dev life, this is like a general blog of random shit + a devblog of any of my projects.

And for those of you who don’t know me… first, follow me on Twitter (@Abel_Toy), hopefully you’ll know how I am a bit better by reading some of my tweets. So basically I am a young INDIE game programmer. I mainly code games in Flash (Actionscript 3) [usually using FlashPunk <3] but I am able to code in other languages if the situation requires it.

I have done some games with Chris Thodesen, I produce a lot of shit for game jams and I’m working on a REALLY, REALLY serious and ambitious project with a development group (the first project, but hopefully not the LAST one! :D). If you want to see some of the games I have done, take a look at the Games section above.

Basically that’s it, I suppose you’ll get to know me better as you talk with me. If you want to get in touch with me, you can use the Contact link above, you can follow me and talk with me on Twitter (@Abel_Toy), or add me on Skype (Rolpege), and I also frequent the #flashpunkers IRC channel on afternet.

That’s all, I hope you like my blog…