i’ve been asked to speak at ICE 08 as a last-minute replacement. ICE, or Interactive Content Exchange, is Interactive Ontario’s major annual event. The conference draws broadcast, mobile, online and console delegates from as far away as Sudbury. ICE is also an acronym for the International Congress of Entomology, and a trade show for [...] Keep Reading

i haven’t written many Flash tutorials because i feel like a bit of a poser. i see the brilliant codeheads posting these tutes to make Flash do incredible things and i think “man – that’s leagues ahead of where i’m at.” But i forget that with eight years’ experience using Actionscript, i do [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: MovieClip._xscale (or MovieClip.xscale) does not light up as a recognized property in AS3. It’s not even listed as a property of the MovieClip class in the documentation. What gives? SOLUTION: _xscale and _yscale properties have been replaced by scaleX and scaleY, which are both properties of the DisplayObject class. MovieClip (eventually) extends DisplayObject and [...] Keep Reading

Kids’ entertainment juggernaut Nickelodeon announced this week that it will blow out its already 5000-strong game library by 1600 more games, including three more kid-based MMOs, according to Joystiq. Pursuant to my admittedly unprofessional rant a few weeks ago, Nicktropolis Looks Like Ass, i have to wonder whether the newest projects in development over [...] Keep Reading

My industry pal Jim McGinley, one of the folks behind TOJam, turned me on to Google Analytics just as i was launching my site this past year. i assume that, being from Google, it’s insanely popular and everyone’s already heard of it. But in the off-chance that you haven’t, and you’re still using your [...] Keep Reading