AT&T Sweeps: Guitar Hero

We at the fish just launched a new site for AT&T featuring guitar hero. I love the visual/sound we incorporated in the site. Let me know what you think.

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Simple AS3

Josh Tynjala took Colin Moock Charges Against AS3 and turned it into a solution called SimpleAS3. I know alot of flash designers and old school developers will love this approach because it helps them to get into AS3 without worrying to much about all the headaches of learning the new structure.

I gotta say though I am on the fence with this one. Is this framework getting developers into a bad habits? Shouldn't you just learn how to do things the right way instead of just reverting to older practices? I guess it's like the argument with CSS developers snapping that tables are not proper use of HTML for layout. Some developers still use it.

In any regard it's still an interesting solution to the problem and I am sure will get adopted by a lot of people.

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Ill Sites: Ikea

Ikea has done some cool stuff with stop motion video on their websites. They got a new one with some cool effects with audio and video. Not sure what the site says since it in Sweden, but very ill none the less.

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Snappin: The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0

Colin Moock has posted on O'Riely's InsideRIA charges against ActionScript 3.0. He makes a stand for Flash developers who are having issues with AS3 and feeling that the "ease of use" of previous Flash version is going away. I think alot of the points are good but I also think to make room for more scalability of the structure you have to let some things die.

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Colin also has a video with Jim Cobert that talks about the Flash Player from the FITC Toronto. Some good talks about some of the current bugs in Flash and how they are trying to deal with them. Check that out!

Kiss fight!

Mentos once again catches my eye with this online game. Kiss fight! is a 3d animated game that puts you up against 3 skillfully kissable ladies. Can you lay it on them before they get you?

I love this game. The production quality is amazing, and the experience is right on! What do you think?

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Yahoo! Flash Developer Center

I saw a post on Zues Labs about Astra in Yahoo!'s dev center, so I thought I would check it out. There are a ton of Flex and Flash Components in the site that you can use under the BSD license. I must say Yahoo! has got some mad love for us Flash Devs!

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They also developed some AS3 APIs for their current products. I used the Map API in AS2 before and it was super handy. The AS3 version looks dope! Adobe has got a post about the new Map API and Blaze DS.

Wide Eye: Cold Shot Game

Wanna figure out who's going to buy the next round? Well with the launch of an online game for Wide Eye you can!

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CapriSun: Dance Off

So me and the crew at the fish threw down some dance moves, check out the CapriSun dance off game! The insane animations done by the most talented Scott Shellhamer!

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Burn and Brag

Mr. Doob has created a very ill tire squealing game using Papervision and a ton of other engines for Nascar. The game play is super responsive and he somehow did the replays in Tweener!

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100 Calories Pack

I thought I would put up some of my other recent projects that I worked on here at the Fish. So here is 100 Calorie Packs site. It's small but also using SWFAddress. Barkley Anderson hooked up the animation. Very elegant flow.

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TrailMixCrunch

We just launched the Trail Mix Crunch website. I added some deep linking using SWFAddress. Check out the animations made by Andrew Seay. Very cool stuff.

Flex and Flash workflow...

Samuel Rivello has got a eSeminar at Adobe.com for using Flex and Flash together during development. I really like the concept of using Flash for creating assets and layouts, then taking into Flex for coding. There seems to be a lot of benefit in being able to use this workflow, keeping a stronger separation between code and visuals assets.

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Flash On

I was floating around and bumped into this mini site from Adobe: Flash on.

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Flare

I saw a post on RIAPedia about flare visualization toolkit. Flare is based off of prefuse, a full visualization toolkit written in java.

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Flash printing in SWF error in Flash CS3.

Not sure if anyone else has seen this before but, one of the designers at work was trying to use PrintJob() and for some reason the printed page was showing with a blue tint. I thought it was odd, so I gave it a crack. Sure enough, blue hue on everything. Even when I tried to use print() I would get the same blue freakin hue.

We spent a lot of time looking at it, but found out that when we looked at the swf outside of the Flash IDE the blue went away. So word to the wise, if you get the error just try it outside of the Flash IDE.

alternativa game 3d engine demo

Alterntiva has got a demo of their 3d gaming engine they are creating for their online gaming enviroment.

About Alterntiva Game:

Alternativa Game is a multiplayer flash-game for browsers. Our game takes place in this time in a big virtual world, and is based on a social interaction.

Project’s goal is to give an opportunity to make interesting play for different kinds of players.

Together or alone, players build their financial empires, make political careers, criminal groups, complot in a fights for influence and territory, buy and sell, organize businesses, and of course simply chat and have fun.

Players can move around, interact each other: chat, fight, change objects, buy and sell (un)real estate, develop skills and physical conditions.


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Flash object scaling..

So I had this issue where I had to get a flash object on the page to stop scaling after it reached a certain height and width. It needed to lock the swf file so that the browser's scoll bars can appear and the content doesn't get lost.

I found an extension to the SWFObject called swfforcesize from PixelBreaker.

I also did a little example here

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Going to MAX!

So I was able to get into the MAX conference all last minute. It wasn't easy. Anywho, if you are going hit me up!

E4X Rundown

I was looking for a good rundown on E4X XML syntax. dispatchEvent has a great run down on E4X in AS3.

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AS 3 Example: Calling methods of a loaded SWF File.

So I am working on a project that loads in SWF file that needed a parameter to load in some external data. Now with AS3 you can’t really just call the method directly from the loaded object like you would in AS2. I posted the example below.

var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, initHandler);
var url:String = "URL_OF_SWF.swf";
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);

ldr.load(urlReq);
addChild(ldr);

function initHandler(e:Event):void
{
var ml = ldr.content;
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("URL_FOR_XML_REQUEST");
ml.init(urlReq);
}

I also have a zip of the example for download.

Seam Carving Updates

I posted the Seam Carving video here before. Less Rain has posted some links on their blog about Seam Carving that have been done in flash, java and a photoshop plug-in.Check it out!

Graffiti Archaeology

Graffiti Archaeology is a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. Most of the photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles over a timespan from the late 1990's to the present.

It always slick to see the life of a wall, and how often it gets buffed and then pieced up again. They created a nice little flash app to see. Check it out!

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Archaeology Flash app.

Ill Sites: Aurea

I haven't come across a site this elegant in a while. But Phillips is introducing their new Aurea TV that creates an ambient light around the TV.

The overall kinetic design is very elegant and the sound design is top notch. Just the subtle changes in color and sound really add to the experience.

I don't think I would rock something like this on my regular TV, but if I bet club owners I would be all over it.

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SQLite Admin Application For AIR

I just noticed something yesterday, AIR has SQL inside. Very ill. Christophe Coenraets , has previously posted an AIR app to admin the AIR SQL.

AIR:Flash CS3 Professional Update

Finally Adobe release AIR preview for Flash CS3.
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The Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) update for Flash® CS3 beta 1 software will allow you to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Flash CS3; leveraging your existing Flash development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR™ framework.

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H.264 on Flash Player 9 beta

Adobe must be feeling the pressure of HD video coming from Quicktime and Silverlight. According to read/write they will be publishing the beta today on adobe labs.

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AFComponents

I have been playing with the gmap component from AFComponents. It's a nice app with a lot of good features.

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My example is here.

Mentos

Ok so there is this guy who was hired by Mentos for an internship. Not your normal, make photocopies of catalogs intern (don't ask) but an intern for you. Yes you can schedule Trevor to do your bidding. Watch him rap, prank your friends, or tell that special some one you love them.

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Eclipse + FDT

So I started using Eclipse + FDT setup. I must say it's very very nice. I like the CVS intergration and FDT's code hints and shortcuts. I still like Flash Develop's cleaner UI, but this is probably the best solution I have seen so far for the Mac yet.