Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Tokyo 2007-08
Christmas in Tokyo! Some dreams come true after all…
More random photos:
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Brighton Web Awards ‘07
FlashBrighton was kindly been asked to nominate their favorite Flash sites/games for the category of “Best use of Flash” for the Brighton & Hove Web Awards ‘07.
Wired Portfolio by Charis was one of the four sort-listed sites, among Snack Dash by Kerb, Oban Star Racers by LittleLoud and SoPlausable by Matt Sayers. And the winner was…Oban Star Racers.
Click here to check out all the nominees.
It was a great night, proper awards atmosphere. Seb was presenting the “Best use of Flash” award and Dom with his ukulele and his band were playing throughout the event. Everyone was pissed at the end and dancing to old ukulele folk style music!
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Flash on the Beach ‘07
Ok, the second Flash on the Beach conference..
3+1 amazing days of a mixture of workshops, Adobe teaser presentations, presentations from leading people of the industry, targeted for developers, designers and the people who just do both, giving advice and tips, while others being more technical, and sessions just to get you inspired. In fact most of the sessions were meant to get you inspired and challenge you to break the default.
John Davey did an amazing job bringing all these talented people together, and all speakers seem to love him and say the best words about him. They also seem to believe that it is the best flash conference.
It was also a great opportunity to network and meet like minded (and not) people from all over the world. It is funny when you hear people asking; ‘what do you do?’ and the answer is ‘Flash stuff!’.
I should also add that Charis designed the flyers for the 2 party nights of the conference.
A list of my personal highlights:
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Dynamic XML Menu & adminPanel
A fully customisable XML menu that comes together with an adminPanel to easily change the menu tree structure and various parameters.
Features:
- Fully customisable through the adminPanel
- XML driven
- 6 levels of sub-menus
- Customisable banner space
- Dynamic html content positioning
- 2 versions; Flash 6 and 7
adminPanel features:
- Easy to use menu tree editor (add, remove, edit, move menu items)
- XML tree editor
- Easy to use banner content editor (add, remove, edit, move, set display time, colour, link for banner items)
- Able to set:
- Dimensions, position and colour of menu bar
- Fade in/out timings and delay control for all levels
- Background and text colours for all levels
- Transparency of submenus
- Dimensions, position and colour of banner container
- HTML content offset from the menu and banner
- Predefined colour and behaviour themes
- Save changes and preview
Future enhancements:
- Able to change the style of the menu bar
To access the adminPanel please use:
Username: test
Password: password
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Space Battles
Getting to grips with flash, dipping into classes, xml, php/mySQL and a month later I made this shoot ‘em up.
There are some basic features in the game like weapon packs, life packs, and…apart from the spaceships really, that my girlfriend designed, ah yeah…and the explosions, there isn’t much to it. It was mostly a fun experience creating it.
After this, I got a “proper” job, so no more (finished) games, no more fun :/ … D’oh!
(no highscores table and entries cause the database is no longer available…bored to make another one!)
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
TicTacToe 3D
…first contact with flash.
After having experimented with OpenGL at uni, I started playing with movieclips and frames. What a weird experience! How naive was I to think that I could create a 3D game in flash. Create my own 3d engine? Nahhh..had to make it look pseudo3D…don’t know if it worked.
the second version will be in Papervision…
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Shoot Santa!
This is a fun little game we made a couple of years ago, in a boring day at work, just before Christmas, when no one was looking 
Enjoy…
