Last Week on Flashtuts+

Flashtuts+, the “sister” Web site of FlashDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.

Each week on FlashDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from Flashtuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.

Create Your Own ActionScript 3.0 Pixel Explosion Effect

August 7th in Effects by Radul

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create an effect which has surely caught your eye before (for example in files such as this one), the Pixel Explosion. During the process of making it we’ll learn how to extract BitmapData from a MovieClip, how to use a tweening engine and how to use event listeners.

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Creating a YouTube Search and Play Gadget with PureMVC

August 5th in Video by Ahmed Nuaman

Following my tutorials on PureMVC and the YouTube Player API I thought it would be a good idea to show you how to use the YouTube GData API for searching for and playing videos. So I’ve created a little tutorial that combines your new PureMVC and YouTube Player skills into a nice and simple search and play gadget.

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Create Your Own Adobe AIR Application with Flash

August 3rd in AIR by Dario Gutierrez

In this tutorial we’ll create a Twitter Reader application, fed from your own Twitter updates. We’ll look at some of the features of the nativeWindow class, how to sign it and make an install package.

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