samorost2

Simple interaction but still very engaging. I like weird pretty games like this.
But I'm stuck on the 3rd level and I'm too busy to continue

http://www.samorost2.net/

Flash Webcam Experiments

Bought a shiney new webcam last weekend to play with Flash 8's webcam input and the new Bitmap functions a bit more, here's the results so far.

One thing, my camera does 320*240 but most cheapo webcams are only 160*120, so not sure how this will look on a lower res camera (as I'm doing an image scale up by 2), be interested to find out.

And of course they all look a lot better moving, so if you have a webcam click the image to launch the app...

Friday Night Cam, for that 'after the pub feeling'...


Cube Cam (looks really nice moving)


Spikey Cam


...and I can't believe no-one else has done this yet...

Ascii Cam

Independent Game Awards

via penny-arcade

The finalists in the 2006 Independent Games Festival have been announced. This almost always means good times, as many of these things have either free demos or are simply free altogether. You have no doubt already heard of Darwinia, but there's some way quirkier stuff than that even. Strange fighting games where the object is to pile bodies high enough to escape is only one of the new ideas I saw over there.

There is a game called Thomas and The Magic Words that I enjoyed, and some of the browser based games were pretty smart.

Killing F Lock

I've got one of those fancy new wireless Microsoft keyboards with loads of pointless buttons on it that you never use. The most annoying thing about it is that they've decided to remap all the function keys (F1-F12) and make them do pointless things, one that always gets me is F2 which is 'undo' now instead of 'rename'...grrr! And F7 is 'reply' now instead of 'spell check' like its always been, which has now mysteriously moved to F10....why??? All this wouldn't be so bad if it didn't start by default every time you reboot, so you have to press the stoopid 'F Lock' key every day just to turn the 'feature' off and use the 'proper' F keys.

Just found this however, jolly handy indead.... Killing F Lock (i.e. restoring the function keys on Microsoft keyboards) (Udolpho)

Yoga for the heart!

If this isn't a viral advert it should be... SpikedHumor.com

RIP Macromedia

Wow, assimilation didn't take long, Macromedia.com is now fully Adobe branded. "Adobe Flash", "Adobe Dreamweaver"... still doesn't sound right but I guess I'd better get used to it :)

AS3 PerlinDisplace Flag

Another little play with Perlin Noise, quite subtle wind effect... (Flash8.5 required)


(I'll add the source code once I clean it up a touch :)

AS3 Fireflies

A little As3 test based on Andre Michelles experiment here. Performance seems amazing, this is moving 15,000 points each frame and still runs at 40fps in Firefox on my machine! I've had it shifting over 50,000 points without too much slowdown...imagine that in FLash5 ;)

(Flash 8.5 required)



(The source is in the first comment)

"Australias most muscular woman"

OH MY GOD! Austrialas scariest trany more like it. Freekin' hilarious, I think these shots are meant to be sexy...eeek! (found via Milk & Cookies in case you were wondering :)

freesound library

Large collection of all kinds of free sounds, loops and effects at freesound

Incomplet - flash experiments

Very nice new site from Grant Skinner to house all his Flash experiements. The timeline is nicely done, and some of the latest F8 stuff (particularly the webcam interaction stuff) is really cool...

http://www.incomplet.org/

flash8 cartoon

Eduardo was asking about an easy way to get an overview of the new features in Flash8, well this is quite fun...

flash8! by nectarine studios

External Interface

Nice little demo here of using the new ExternalInterface class to create HTML tooltips from Flash, note the tooltips are outside the actual flash file...

ExternalInterface, CSS, & Tooltips, Oh My!

A web professional can never stop learning

Interesting, and I agree completely, sometimes it's a real pain to have to keep learning new technologies just when you think you've almost got the hang of the last....but at the same time thats what keeps our profession interesting...
A web professional can never stop learning | 456 Berea Street

Email Design Guidelines for 2006

Handy tips fro HTML email constructioin...

Email Design Guidelines for 2006 | Articles/Tips - Campaign Monitor Blog