I was majorly and pleasantly surprised when I saw this post — you seem to list all the big players that I also subscribe to: GotoAndLearn, Polygonal, 8bitrocket, sen’s stuff, SmartFox, 7 out of 9 of the books you listed are my top ones as well, same 3D engines in the same order I would have listed them… But you did miss two major sites — gotoandplay.it and tonypa.pri.ee … Flash gamedev tuts galore.

Allow me to suggest another section in your post for AS optimisations. You can find links to the major ones on my own site at http://www.visualharmonics.co.uk/actionscript-optimizations/ (you can see the list of sources at the bottom). OSFlash and Ryan Kettrey deserve a big mention.

Anyhow, great blog mate, I read your about page and see you and I have something in common. All the best, and I hope you’ll have a look around my site, as you may find some things to interest you. Will pop by from time to time.

pathfinding becomes harder where there are objects or say movie clips that are iregular shaped. What do you do to prevent something from running into a corner and getting indefenitly stuck ? Thats a trickyer one.

A good technique I’ve found for AI path finding is simply to have them follow a “ghost”. Create an imaginary spot or character and have them follow that point, and once there, check if theres a simple path available, otherwise create another ghost to follow. This of course doesn’t apply to 2d paths in arrays.