Archive | December, 2009

Building Bridges: Some solutions

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

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.

Building Bridges -  a Box2D Christmas Game

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The Flash Platform in your TV?

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.

An Open Screen Project TV?

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

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

Link: Advanced PDF eSeminar for ActionScript developers

“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