Category Archives: Flash

Gravity Pods update…

Posted on December 23, 2008 by keith

over here: http://wickedpissahgames.com/?p=25

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FireFox, AdBlock, FlexBuilder debugging. Not a healthy combo.

Posted on December 17, 2008 by keith

After about a day of tearing my hair out, making new workspaces, reimporting projects, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, restarting, installing updates, re-installing Flash Player, messing with my mm.cfg file, seriously considering reinstalling Flex Builder… all in the attempt to get Flex … Continue reading →

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Gravity Pods 2

Posted on December 15, 2008 by keith

Some of you probably remember the game I released last year, Gravity Pods. It was successful beyond what I imagined. Almost immediately, I started working on a sequel. But instead started another game and got that out. Shortly after that … Continue reading →

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Strange Attractor in 6 lines

Posted on December 9, 2008 by keith

Caught up in 25-line fever, I started hacking away at a Strange attractor generator and got it down to 6 lines. 🙂 [as]var bmp:Bitmap = addChild(new Bitmap(new BitmapData(800, 800, false, 0xffffff))) as Bitmap; for(var i:int = 0; i < 12; … Continue reading →

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25 Lines Finalists are up!

Posted on December 9, 2008 by keith

Seems like the word is spreading pretty well by itself, but I should mention it here anyway… The judges have picked their favorites and we came up with not 10, but 12 finalists. The stuff that was created is pretty … Continue reading →

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AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation is complete (really)

Posted on November 25, 2008 by keith

Last night I approved the cover copy proof and sent that back. That’s pretty much the end. It’s off to the printer in a few days and should appear on the shelves some number of weeks later. Not sure the … Continue reading →

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The Flash Platform is dead! Long live the Flash Platform!

Posted on November 17, 2008 by keith

Adobe announced, or TechCrunch announced, or Adobe will announce… um… anyway, there’s this brand new thing called the Flash Platform now on Adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/ The Adobe® Flash® Platform is an integrated set of technologies surrounded by an established ecosystem of … Continue reading →

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25 Line ActionScript Contest begins tomorrow

Posted on November 14, 2008 by keith

We have rules. We have judges. We have prizes. Now we need code. The contest begins at 12:00:01 a.m. tomorrow morning EST (GMT – 5). Check it out.

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Deconstructing Flash 10 3D

Posted on November 10, 2008 by keith

In the comments of this post, Emanuele Cipolloni put forth the idea that Flash 10 3D is simply done behind the scenes using drawTriangles. That was a interesting realization for me. Made sense, so I decided to test it out. … Continue reading →

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More on Flash 10 3D

Posted on November 8, 2008 by keith

One more problem you might run into with Flash 10 3D is when you rotate a display object in 3D. Display objects are perfect planes, which means they don’t have any thickness. The old joke, “he’s so thin that if … Continue reading →

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