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Sprocket (Circa 2006)

In an effort provide further evidence that I’m still alive and that I still care about this blog I’m posting more old stuff! This time from way back in 2006. This is a game engine I called Sprocket. Sprocket was my ‘Learn AS2′ project. The code was an absolute mess, but I’m still really proud [...]

Flash Pie Chart complete in Flash AS3 AND Flex!

Before I begin I’d like to point out that you can buy this 3D Flash Pie Chart for $10 from this link. About half a lifetime ago I posted about the Pie Chart I was working on. I spent a hell of a lot of time turning [...]

Real Life Swarms

I just saw this on Youtube, it’s a video of 500,000 bats flying out of a cave filmed in infrared. It really reminds me of the Boids swarming app I wrote, especially how the bats will zig-zag as they fly.

Making AS3 components is harder than I’d imagined…

UPDATE I’ve updated the Flash Pie Chart, made it more awesome and put it up for sale on ActiveDen as a Flash component and Flex Class! Check it out! It’s pretty rad! So as I wrote earlier I’m working on transforming my 3D Pie Chart into a proper AS3 component. Holy crap, it’s harder than [...]

My AS3 3D Pie Chart

UPDATE I’ve updated the Flash Pie Chart, made it more awesome and put it up for sale on ActiveDen as a Flash component and Flex Class! Check it out! It’s pretty rad! First an FYI, this is a showing off post. I’m not sharing the source for this as I’d like to explore the idea [...]

2D Game Scrolling in AS3 (my very early implementation)

A few weeks ago I started work on a new game as a hobby project… unfortunately I also started playing A LOT of Company of Heroes on the PC, so progress on the programming has been slow, very, very slow. But I did write at least one useful piece of code that I think some [...]

The Lander (Circa 2004)

Back in 2004 I worked on a game called ‘The Lander’ it was eventually licensed by Miniclip.com and ArcadeTown.com (for not very much money at all). ‘The Lander’ is the project that convinced me that maybe I should continue working in Flash and ActionScript. Anyway. For the past 5 years ‘The Lander’ was hosted by [...]

PhotoPal (maybe PhotoViewr) ?

I spent some time the last week working on my dad’s website (he runs a portable Pet Photography Studio). Specifically, I was working on a AS3, PHP+SQL application that would give his clients a preview of their photos before they order them. I hadn’t worked on a PHP project in ages and the language was [...]

Bezier Curves AS3

Ok, so I’m coming down with a serious case of blog guilt. I haven’t posted in… well a while. First my excuse: I just finished a big freelance job. Now that the job is done I can get on to some more exciting stuff! To warm myself up. I’m posting something I played around with [...]

Colour Swarm – Kirupa.com Contest Entry

I was recently invited to participate in FXpression 09. A flash contest on kirupa.com. The contest rules state that all entries must be composed entirely of circles. I entered a modified version of my swarm code. See it in all it’s glory after the break. Your your mouse to direct the swarm. Try and figure [...]