During my Flash gaming workshop at the Adobe Education Leader Institute, we built out a little game which covers the following game development concepts; Timing, Mouse Interaction, Character Movement, Rotation, Scrolling Backgrounds, Obstacles, Collision Detection, Game Loop, Scoreboard, Player Health, Sound Management, States, Constraints, Packages/Classes, Garbage Collection, and Game Cleanup! The game is called Flash […]
As expected, I had a great time at my fourth Adobe Education Leader Institute this year. Presenting, discussing, networking, sharing, and learning – there is truly no other gathering like it. I was able to present a talk on the persistent value of the Flash Platform in education, provide a workshop in Flash game design,
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With Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating finally released, those who want an alternative to Adobe Flex 4.6 can download and install the compiled SDK or even grab the full framework source. There is also a really slick AIR-based framework installer that will do a lot of the tedious work for you :) While this is a parity
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Adobe today has announced that they will play a strategic role in the formation of a new non-profit open source organization, The Away Foundation, through funding and endorsement of the popular Away3D framework as the recommended open source 3D framework for mobile, desktop and television games powered by Flash technology (Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash
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I’m pleased to once again be included in the list of Adobe Community Professionals for the coming year. This will be my second term serving as an ACP and I do hope that I can continue giving back in this role for many years to come. I truly enjoy working with Adobe, other industry partners,
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I’m gearing up in preparation for the Adobe Education Leader Institute [JULY 23-26, 2012] at Adobe’s San Jose offices. That’s two weeks from today! Always a great opportunity to connect with Adobe and others working in both higher education and K-12. This will be my fourth institute and I’ll be presenting a talk on the
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Over the weekend, my newest video course with video2brain was published. Getting Started with Flash Professional CS6 Step-by-Step Basics to Get You on Your Way In this course, Flash authority Joseph Labrecque takes you on the straightest path to proficiency with Flash Professional CS6. You’ll learn your way around the interface and get comfortable working
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Certain factions within Adobe seem to think that HTML & Friends can do 80% of what Flash Player can do on the web today 1. That’s fine. It may be true- things have certainly progressed in a very positive way with web standards over the past few years, thank goodness! But what of that other
We’re looking all the way back to Flash Player 10.2 for a peek at native mouse cursor support! This feature allows us to use bitmap based mouse cursors that run at the OS level rather than inside the display list in Flash Player. Huge performance gains! [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.2.0″ movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NativeCursor.swf” width=”550″ height=”400″ targetclass=”flashmovie” play=”true” loop=”true”
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For most of my “AS3 Quickie” series, I’ve focused on Flash Player 11.2-11.4, but really have plans to cover all sorts of interesting bits in the recent runtimes – even some additions with Flash Player 10. For those who would like a comprehensive guide to everything new in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, O’Reilly
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Another great feature in Flash Player 11.2 is the combination of the mouseLock boolean in flash.display.Stage along with the ability to read movementX and movementY from MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE. When used within Flash Player, we must be in fullscreen for mouse lock to be enabled and the relative mouse coordinates made available. The primary focus of this
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One of the great new features introduced with Flash Player 11.2 is the ability to detect when the runtime throttles, pauses, or resumes normal activity through the flash.events.ThrottleEvent class. This is useful for saving state, or pulling back our activity when a throttle is detected. What does the throttle actually do? Well, if you have
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