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Building Bridges: Some solutions

Posted by James - 24/12/09 at 12:12:54 am

In a non-too-subtle way, I thought I’d drum up a bit more enthusiasm for this years’ Christmas Game, by showing you a few of the solutions that people have come up with for the levels.

Type 1: The Basic solution.

Oh yes, it works for the first level, but just you try that on some of the later ones…

Type 2: Adding some support

That’s the basic principle for solving the later levels…

Type 3: Support overkill

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“Building Bridges”, a Box2D – powered Seasonal Game

Posted by James - 18/12/09 at 02:12:54 pm

It’s that time of year again – and after a week or so of furiously learning Box2D, we at MMT Digital have just released our seasonal Flash game into the wild.  The idea is all about building bridges across gaps in the terrain, using Box2D to simulate your resulting creation.

You can check it out here: Play “Building_Bridges” now.

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The Flash Platform in your TV?

Posted by James - 10/12/09 at 09:12:18 am

This is very intriguing – a range of TVs with iPlayer, YouTube and other snazzy web-based features is available in the UK.  Of course, the idea might be old hat to a lot of people, but I only get really interesting in things when I hear that the stuff is available, here and now.

They’re made by a company called Cello, who I’ve only just heard about, and they sell a TV which you plug into your broadband and start streaming stuff off the internet with.

http://www.celloelectronics.com/lcd-tv-range/iplayer-and-youtube-player-10748

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Link: Google creates programming language to simplify application development

Posted by Mark - 07/12/09 at 12:12:21 pm

http://blog.skitsanos.com/2009/11/google-creates-programming-language-to.html

Link: Advanced PDF eSeminar for ActionScript developers

Posted by Mark - 07/12/09 at 09:12:46 am

“In short, you can build a GUI in Flex to skin the PDF and how the user can access the document contents. The PDF can contain images, text docs, or any Flex/Flash content (such as a video player or game). The Flex navigators are the GUI for how the user accesses the content of the PDF.”

Sound interesting? Check out more at http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2009/11/11/pdf-for-flex-devs

Link: jQSlickWrap

Posted by James - 04/12/09 at 12:12:09 pm

We’ve known for quite a while that jQuery is brilliantly clever, but holy cow, the code behind this is pretty damn clever.

What jQSlickWrap does is automagically work out the shape of the image by extracting the background colour, and then modifies the HTML to wrap the text perfectly around the image.  Obviously something so awesome won’t work on some browsers, but it’s designed to cleverly degrade to whatever your browser can manage, which is pretty fantastic.

Read more about this over at the jQSlickWrap site: http://jwf.us/projects/jQSlickWrap/

Automating tasks in Flex Builder, with the help of a little something called ‘ANT’.

Posted by James - 04/12/09 at 10:12:57 am

One of the great things about Flex Builder is that it’s developed on top of the already existing Eclipse IDE, and is itself just one of many uses the Eclipse project is put to.  Which means that many of the things you may want to do in your projects have already been explored by others.  One such thing is automated tasks.

Turns out there’s something called ANT, which “[... does a really good job at building things]“.  As Eclipse is the basis for Flex Builder, a lot of the plugins for Eclipse – and all the variants of it – work just fine in Flex Builder.  There’s a plugin for Eclipse which adds ANT support for example, and then further plugins which add even more task types to ANT, such as FTP support.
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