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ActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (now owned by Adobe Systems). It is a dialect of ECMAScript (meaning it has the same syntax and semantics of the more widely known JavaScript), and is used primarily for... More from Wikipedia
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Make a Tower Defense Game in AS3: Aim and Fire

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Create a Pong Game in HTML5 With EaselJS – Tuts+ Premium

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Angry Birds, Transcending Virtual Form One Platform at a Time (Part 6)

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Easy, Fluid Keyboard Movement in AS3 With the Input Class

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An Introduction to the HTML5 Gamepad API

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Quick Tip: Collision Reaction Between a Circle and a Line Segment

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Quick Tip: Use FZip to Open Zip Files Within AS3

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Top 10 Free Apps to Create Flash and HTML5 Video

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Building Real Time Web Applications With Adobe Cirrus – Tuts+ Premium

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Building a Better Bitmap Button in AS3

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ActionScript 3 Game modification, FlashDevelop platform | ActionScript | Flash | Flex | MySQL | PHP

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Nokia Lumia 900 Features, Specifications, Pricing & Availability

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Situations to avoid when writing ActionScript

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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich New Features & Improvements

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ActionScript 3.0 TouchEvent: Guaranteed Mobile Speedup

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Learn Digital Painting in Photoshop

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ActionScript 3.0 Single Class Event Handler

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Angry Birds Cheats & Walkthroughs (Part 5)

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Quick Tip: Collision Detection Between a Circle and a Line Segment

We covered collision detection between an infinite line and circle in our previous Quick Tip. However, the issue that arose w... Similar stories ...
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Beginning Audio Programming in AS3 – Tuts+ Premium

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Top 15 Google Chrome Web Store Games

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Create a Microphone-Controlled Flash Game: Code

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Drawing Display Objects into Bitmaps with BitmapData.draw() Method - AS3 How-To

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Weekend Lecture: Egoraptor Discusses Megaman’s Game Design

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Galaxy Nexus Review: Features, Specifications…

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Quick Tip: Collision Detection Between a Circle and a Line

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From ActionScript 3.0 to JavaScript Chain of Responsibility: Part II The Help Desk

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Angry Birds on Chrome (Part 4)

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Free Greensock-Based Flash Slideshow Framework (With Premium Source Files)

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2011 in Flash and Web Apps: A Retrospective

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Quick Tip: Collision Detection Between Circles

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Use Vector Regions to Implement Field of View in a Flash Game

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Activetuts+ Quiz #6: JSON and XML

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From ActionScript 3.0 to JavaScript Chain of Responsibility: Part I

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Illustrate a Quirky Santa Character Using Flash Pro and Swift 3D

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AS3 Quick Tip: Hacking the Event Flow

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ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC

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Build a Dynamic Flash Game Menu: The Accordion

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Manipulating Sounds in AS3 With the Standing Wave 3 Library – Active Premium

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BitmapData.draw or cacheAsBitmapMatrix or Vector Content - AIR Mobile Experiments

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