Archive for December, 2007

Video Game Review: Chrono Trigger (SNES)

Easily one of the best, if not the best title for the SNES, is probably the the most popular SNES ever made. Made by none other than Square Soft, CT (Chrono Trigger) featured a battle system that most RPGs failed to rival. The infamous double and triple techs are what in my opinion, made CT so popular. Throwing that in plus a tale of epic proportions, made Chrono, the story’s lead character, one of the most well-known video game icons.

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Video Game Review: Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising (GBA)

Advance Wars 2 is a strategy game that uses happy and fun characters to lighten the mood of what would seem to be an otherwise serious war game. This is not unsual and almost expected as Nintendo is known for targetting the younger audience then say Sony.
 
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Constant Limit YouTube Video Player

Check out my YouTube video player to view demos of some of my Flash Actionscript projects:

Constant Limit Flash Actionscript YouTube Video Player

Codetorial: Translating the Tic-Tac-Toe Playing Board to Flash Actionscript

Here is a link to a Tic-Tac-Toe game that I created using Flash and its programming language Actionscript: http://www.constantlimit.com/site/portfolio/flash/tic_tac_toe.html

This codetorial requires a solid understanding of basic programming concepts along with Actionscript.

The playing board is a 3×3 grid that consists of 9 spots. Each spot can hold a piece, and X or O. Intially, each spot is empty since no piece has made any moves yet. So at any point in the game, there are three possible statuses for each spot, X, O, or empty.

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CamStudio: Record your desktop as video!

I just found this great program called CamStudio, which can record your desktop as video. This is perfect if you want to record something that you are doing on your computer as video and upload it to YouTube.

Here is the link for this is really useful program: http://camstudio.org

If you have found a free download better than this, let me know and I will take a look at it.

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King Kanbei Triumphs All

If you are familar with the GBA (Game Boy Advance), then you should be familiar with the popular strategy turned-based game called Advanced Wars. In this map you fight against the forces of evil called the “Black Hole” army using various characters called Commanding Officers. Kanbei is one of these officers, outshining them all. He is the samurai guy.

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White + Black = Red?

The jack-of-all-trades red mage is easily the best class in Final FantasyAccording to Square Enix, formely known as Squaresoft, that holds true. You were expecting gray but instead in the realm of Final Fantasy those colors when mixed together formed the most powerful class in the start of the Final Fantasy Empire.

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The Mystery Behind the Metallic Blades

Anyone who is familar with the orginal Mega Man series which began back in the 1980s probably remembers the sequel that started it all, Mega Man 2. The Mega Man series is defintely a timeless classic that will not fade away for generations to come. Capcom, the creator of Mega Man, had a novel concept that even future games will never rival. The idea of gaining a bosses’s power after you beat him was innovative and creative. Mega Man using his best weapon ever, the Metal Blade!

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