Archive for the 'Flash' Category
First official Flash 8 work
Well, it has begun. Apparently, we don’t even need the good news that Flash Player 8 adoption has been faster than all other versions: just a mention of some of the new features (specially related to video and the new express install) was enough to convince the client that Flash 8 was the better option. […]
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Posted on 2/Feb/2006 at 1:19 pm | 1 Comment | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Site releases, Typography
Final draw for the World Cup groups
It’s today! The final draw for the Germany World Cup 2006 groups will be held on Leipzig, Germany, at 20:15 CET – 32 teams will be distributed between 8 groups with 4 national teams each (from each group, 2 teams will be qualified for the final rounds). What’s cool about this is that FIFA has […]
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Posted on 9/Dec/2005 at 7:06 am | Comments Off on Final draw for the World Cup groups | Categories: Flash
Raven Software is looking for an user interface designer
Looking for a change of seasons? Raven Software, developers of games such as X-Men Legends, Soldier of Fortune, Heretic, Hexen and Quake 4, is looking for an artist to develop user interface stuff for their next-generation games. Here it goes, Raven Software, developer of numerous AAA award winning games, including Soldier of Fortune 1 & […]
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Posted on 1/Dec/2005 at 5:39 pm | 3 Comments | Categories: Flash, Interface, Job posts, Videogames
Be like Van Gogh, but with your ear on
On the days of Flash 7 (and less), one of the biggest problems I had to deal with was handling a lot of objects on screen, at the same time. This was particularly true with painting pseudo-applications – you know, cutesy websites where you could create drawings within Flash. The problem with sites like that […]
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Posted on 30/Nov/2005 at 5:21 am | 2 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash
W3C to create RIA standards using a lot of acronyms
Among other things, the W3C is now looking to develop new standards for rich user interface applications. To quote, The W3C Web Application Formats Working Group is chartered to develop languages for client-side Web Application development. (…) This deliverable should be based on an existing application/UI format, such as Mozilla’s XUL, Microsoft’s XAML, Macromedia’s MXML […]
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Posted on 21/Nov/2005 at 7:25 pm | Comments Off on W3C to create RIA standards using a lot of acronyms | Categories: Flash, Interface, Videogames
Macromedia launches a bunch of stuff online, head explodes
There’s the ActionScript 3 section at Macromedia Labs. The AS2 to AS3 migration sheet is particularly interesting. You can also download the new tools for testing – including Flash Player 8.5, the one with the new virtual machine. Mike Chambers has some more information about all this.
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Posted on 17/Oct/2005 at 6:25 am | 1 Comment | Categories: Flash
Macromedia Studio 8 Latin America release
Macromedia has sent word of the latin american release presentations for Studio 8 and Studio 8 products – Flash 8 et al. Dates and speakers vary per country, but visitors wil be treated to a Flash Platform presentation, a feature tour of the products by product managers (I don’t know if that’s via Breeze or […]
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Posted on 28/Sep/2005 at 7:14 pm | 1 Comment | Categories: Flash
Raycasting in Flash 8
Using what’s he’s calling the Flash Ray Engine, Glen Rhodes ported a version of id Software’s game Wolfenstein 3d to Flash 8. It’s working pretty nice, and is a great glimpse of what’s ahead on the future of Flash 8 games. Raycasting engines had been ported before to Flash 7, but they were too slow; […]
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Posted on 27/Sep/2005 at 6:07 am | 3 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Videogames
Top 3 Flash 8 features, according to me
Right now, everybody and their mother are talking about Flash 8. I’ll just add a bit more echo to the choir and speak about I think are the coolest features about this new version. 3. Improved readability. With the new font rendering algorithm, Flash will finally get rid of the blurred mess of vector art […]
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Posted on 9/Aug/2005 at 12:24 pm | 2 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Interface
Flash 8 officially announced, sort of released
So 8/8 has finally come, and Macromedia has officially announced the new version of Flash. Surprisingly, the new IDE isn’t called Flash MX 2005 – my personal bet – nor Flash MX 2, but actually Flash 8. To tell the truth, I thank Macromedia for this decision; product branding and all that is very important, […]
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