FlashONGames: Building Multi Platform Games in Flash, HTML5 and Native Applications with haXe

We’ve been asked to give a presentation at FlashONGames, a Bay Area (read San Francisco, California) group that runs a regular meetup / mini conference normally held at Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose.

If anyone has anything they think I should talk about, or things I should show, please comment or email me directly at tarwin@touchmypixel.com.

Please come along if you’re in the area. You can also check a live stream out if you want to learn (laugh) from afar!

FlashONGames: http://flashongames.com/

My Presentation: http://flashongames.com/post/4535797807/building-multi-platform-games-in-flash-html5-and

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Sneak Peek of Future of the Flash Runtime!

For those who have missed this, Arno Gourdol, leading the Flash Runtime engineering team presented a session at Flash Camp Brasil last week entitled, Future of the Flash Runtime. Arno unveiled some very cool features we are working on right now, and I wanted to make sure you guys know about those in case you did not luckily attend Arno's session.

If you are curious about the slides, you can download them here.

Here are some of the features we are working on :

- Faster GC : GC hint API and more.
- New numeric types : float and float4 (very useful for Molehill in the future).
- Concurrency : Worker threads (shared nothing model) to leverage multicore CPU's. No more UI 's blocked when doing expensive operations.
- Stage3D : The API used for Molehill (that you know through the Incubator builds).
- StageVideo : Allowing full GPU acceleration (decoding + blitting) when used with H.264. Part of Flash Player 10.2 and coming to AIR soon.
- Threaded video pipeline : Will decode non H.264 streams on another thread, Net I/O will also be moved to another thread, all this bringing smoother playback.

I will be covering some of those in more details later on, stay tuned!

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MochiLand: Flash Gaming Summit Wrap-Up: Session Recordings, Photos, & More!

MochiLand: Flash Gaming Summit Wrap-Up: Session Recordings, Photos, & More!: "

Thank you to everyone who made FGS 2011 a huge success! The conference sold out again this year, with over 500 attendees and hundreds more watching the live stream online. FGS continues to gain momentum due to the quality of our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and partners. Thank you all!

Recorded Sessions

Roberston Auditorium

• Welcome
• Flash + A Whole New Dimension for Games
• Panel: Getting Your Games Sponsored
• The Mochis Awards Show
• Panel: Polish: Making Your games Shine
• Kabam’s Studio Model
• So You Want To Make A Facebook Game?

Fisher Room

• Keeping Yourself Honest In Game Design
• Metrics From Top Game Developers
• Making a Single Player, Social Game, and Multiplayer Game on a Shoestring Budget. The Making of Snowfort.
• Kingdoms at War: Bridging an MMO World From iPhone to Flash
• How I Built a $10,000/mo Flash Game in My Spare Time
• Making a Game with Molehill: Zombie Tycoon

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60 mins of Game Dev advice from 60 speakers at FlashMindMeld

60 mins of Game Dev advice from 60 speakers at FlashMindMeld:

A month or so ago David Fox contacted me asking if I’d be willing to submit a 60-second recording, answering the question “What makes or breaks a great flash game?“. Apparently 59 other speakers were also on-board. So I figured with those kind of odds at least the listeners could have a giggle at my “speech” and move onto something more inspiring. So I agreed.

David put a butt-load of work into the event. Collecting all the samples, organising everything and putting the site together. And today it’s finally all live! You can listen to some great snippets from the likes of Adam Saltsman, Tom Fulp, Edmund McMillen, Rob James, Stephen Harris and a load more. And when you’ve exhausted all of their brilliance you’ll find me. Apologies in advance for sounding like a teenager sniffing glue. You’d never have guessed my Dad was a radio DJ and my Mum a singer. Voice talent skipped my generation (I got the geek strain instead, so a fair trade)

Hopefully David will run the event again, with a new question and maybe another set of 60 speakers, as the concept is a great one. And of course thanks to Ilija for pixelating me. I think. (I do actually have a neck tho!)

Find everything you need at http://www.flashmindmeld.com/

Freelance Flash Games News: Want your Shot at $10,000 in Prizes?

Freelance Flash Games News: Want your Shot at $10,000 in Prizes?:

If your looking to bring in some extra cash, take a look at the 2nd Games that Challenge World Contest. Brought to you by the social gaming site Come2Play and the Flash Game Developers group on LinkedIn, the contest will award prizes for the top 4 games built using Come2Play’s Multiplayer API. But before I get [...]

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is live!

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is live!:

There we are, I am happy to announce that the Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is live since a few minutes. (Debugger builds available here)

I covered the list of features a few weeks ago, Flash Player 10.2 ships with Stage Video for high performance video playback and also the very cool native mouse cursors feature that game developers will love but also some performance optimizations with IE9 and also text quality improvements on mobile. With Flash Player 10.2, you can also enjoy fullscreen on one screen while you keep working in the other screen, pretty cool for the video people. Keep in mind we will keep working on little improvements like this in future releases, to always enhance the user experience with the Flash runtimes.

I wrote two articles so that you guys can get started easily with Stage Video and the Native Mouse Cursors. I hope you will enjoy playing with those features. To author for 10.2, just use the latest Flex Hero SDKs available on opensource.adobe.com (4.5.0.18623 or 4.5.0.19786) [...]

Learn what makes or breaks a successful Flash game with Flash Mindmeld

Learn what makes or breaks a successful Flash game with Flash Mindmeld:

Sixty Top Flash Game Developers (myself included! Damn Italians, they are everywhere) from Around the World to Share Flash Game Development Tips, Secrets and Advice at Online Flash Mindmeld MicroConference.

On February 15th, 60 (myself included, so let’s say 59) of the world’s greatest developers behind Flash games will speak about what makes or breaks a successful Flash game. Knowing what it really
takes to develop a successful game is more critical than ever.

Each participant was asked to respond to the following question: “What makes or breaks a great Flash game?” Common mistakes made in development, how to stand out and what key points separate a good game from a great one are just some of the topics to be covered by these experts.

Each of the 60 Flash developers will present a 60-second tip, creating one of the first “central hubs” for critical information on how to make a great Flash game.

It was very funny to take part to the Flash Mindmeld. When I was asked to record a 60 seconds audio tip, I wrote it down and it was very happy with it, until I realized it took me almost two minutes to read it. So I had to redact it a lot of times, until I came with my 60 seconds tip.

You are warned, my spoken engRish sucks, but you’ll probably find interesting the remaining 59 audio tips.

Meanwhile, register to the Online Flash Mindmeld.

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Iain Lobb Blog: Free Flash game source code! Win Adobe Master Collection!

Iain Lobb Blog: Free Flash game source code! Win Adobe Master Collection!:

I've decided to give away the full source to a Flash game! Here's why - Mark 'ickydime' Grossnickle has organised a game development contest to coincide with Stanford University's annual charity 'Hackathon'. Anyone can enter (that means you!) and the top prize is a copy of Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection (that's all the Adobe software basically) worth $2500.

The theme of the contest is 'benevolence' which basically means being charitable and generally a good person. Mark has asked me to help judge the contest, so I can't enter, but I thought my benevolent act could be giving away the source code to a game, to get you started or help you learn game dev.

Ok, so it's not really a full game, but it is a working game engine with a playable character, enemies, bullets and NPCs. You can see it in action here (arrow keys and spacebar) and download the source code here. It compiles in the Flash IDE, so if you want to use the Flex compiler you'll have to hack it a bit.

ActionScript 3.0 and PHP Design Patterns: January 6-7 New York City

ActionScript 3.0 and PHP Design Patterns: January 6-7 New York City:

ith partial funding from the National Science Foundation, CUNY (CCNY campus) invited me to do two workshops on design patterns: one on ActionScript 3.0 and the other on PHP. The workshops cover a wide range of basic OOP topics to Design Patterns. Check it out here. The last talk I gave was also in NYC, and [...]

Live Q&A Show : The Flex Show Episode 130

Live Q&A Show : The Flex Show Episode 130:

John and I got together on Adobe connect and recorded this episode live in front of an audience. This was experimental for us, so be sure to let us know how you thought it went.

Notes

• Check out the Original Connect Recording
• Support our Pledge Drive
• 360|Flex in Denver (April 10th-13th)
• 360|Flex Call for Papers
• Online Flex Meetup Group (Jeffry and John now manage it)
• Take the Online Flex Meetup Group Survey
• John's Dog's Blog

Contact

• E-mail Jeffry and John
• Follow us on Twitter
• Like us on Facebook

2011 Conferences

2011 Conferences:

Here are a list of conferences worth checking out in 2011 [...]

Join The Flex Show for a Live Q&A Session!

Join The Flex Show for a Live Q&A Session!: For the final episode of this year, we've decided to do a live Q&A session, where you can come and ask us questions about the show and the state of Flex. This will take place using my connect room on Monday December 20th at 7pm Eastern Time. Convert the time to your time zone here. This is experimental for us, and we're not sure what to expect. If you ever wanted to know anything about the show, this is the chance to get info from the horses mouth. How do we do it? What are some of our favorite show moments? Do we prefer Coke or Pepsi? Do John and I fight? If the Hulk fought Spiderman, who would win? We'll have the answers! So, come hang out with us for an hour or so and we'll see what happens [...]

Michael Plank talks about Parsley: The Flex Show Episode 129

Michael Plank talks about Parsley: The Flex Show Episode 129:

We had a chance to chat with Gary about using the Amazon web stack with your Flash and Flex apps

Notes

• Support our Pledge Drive
• Parsley Framework (And SpiceLib)
• Parsley Sample
• FDT

Contact

• E-mail Jeffry and John
• Follow us on Twitter
• Like us on Facebook

Flashgamm 2010 Kyiv Presentations

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Presentations from the conference Flash GAMM Kyiv 2010 are available on the website.

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Official Flash GAMM Kyiv 2010 review

Official Flash GAMM Kyiv 2010 review:

The fifth conference of flash games developers and publishers Flash GAMM Kyiv 2010 was held on December 4-5 in Kyiv.

We keep on growing and beating new records! This time the conference welcomed over 400 visitors from different countries.

The event took place in KyivExpoPlaza exhibition center with 2 spacious session halls, 2 sponsors halls for business negotiations, a meeting room for gold sponsors and a large coffee-break zone.

The conference program grew as well. During two days of the event we had 20 lectures (5 of them in English), a Workshop by i-Jet Media, a master class by AlternativaPlatform, another master class by Wacom, two round table discussions, a game-lynch and flash game contest award ceremony.

We would like to express our gratitude to all the speakers for sharing their valuable experience and significant figures.

At the end of the first conference day the participant were taken to the official After-beer-party sponsored byWheemplay. Though the room didn’t appear enough for all the willing, and free beer went off quite quickly, the atmosphere was really warm and friendly, and flash discussions dragged on till the morning. We would also like to thank Alternativa for supplying the party with extra beer [...]

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