We’ve mentioned briefly that among our current projects is a duo of games for the Deaf Culture Centre here in Toronto. The DCC is building a new website to showcase its facility, which houses creative works by Deaf Canadians. The Centre also honours the achievements of other Deaf folks, including teachers, authors, and athletes. Working [...] Keep Reading

A day after i railed against invoking Coke in discussions of in-game advertising, Massively writer Shawn Schuster predictably invoked Coke in a discussion of in-game advertisting, in his post The Eve of In-Game Advertising. And (as a few of his readers were quick to point out), if Schuster thinks that in-game advertising is just now [...] Keep Reading

One of the questions the moderator asked during our panel at ICE 08 was whether or not the virtual world/MMO racket was a bubble. i said “no”, emphatically, and i’m sticking to my guns. i do believe that interest and expectations are inflated beyond what the market will bear, however. Just as investors sunk millions [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: Unloading content (ie external swfs) in AS3 is difficult, if not impossible. SOLUTION: My pal Martin Sieg at marblemedia threw me to an article by Grant Skinner – Failure to Unload: Flash Player 9′s Dirty Secret – where the author discusses a player bug that prevents content unloading. The problem impacts gallery-style projects, and [...] Keep Reading

i was only trying to promote Flex Camp 2 when i launched into a long lament over Macromedia/Adobe’s chosen design path for their Flash software. Industry pal Jim McGinley (of TOJam 3 fame) shared his insights: Visual Basic programmers had an inferiority complex. Despite the fact VB programmers were building business applications in record speed, [...] Keep Reading