Often I find working with Bitmaps and BitmapData in Flash can be cumbersome. Simple things such as resizing images can require a lot of code. For this tutorial i have created a “BitmapResampler” class to help makes things easier. This class can be useful for things such as creating dynamic thumbnails, taking Bitmap snapshots of [...] Keep Reading

Every year, the organizers of TOJam (the city’s annual orgiastic game design bacchanal) choose a theme to guide the goings-on. Last year’s theme was CHEESE. Most of the Jam’s participants took the directive literally. There were games about blasting towers of cheese, games about digging through cheesy substrata, and games about entire seas of cheese. [...] Keep Reading

NOT THAT WE ARE … but if we WERE creating an online multiplayer trivia game, WHICH WE MAY NOT EVEN BE DOING, we wanted to present a poll where you choose your FAVOURITE trivia categories. The results of this poll MAY or MAY NOT be used for our hypothetical online multiplayer trivia game, which is [...] Keep Reading

TORONTO – The president of struggling small game development studio Untold Entertainment Inc. made an impassioned plea on the steps of the Ontario Legislative Building today. Ryan Henson Creighton, the company’s beleagured founder and occasional mascot, was seen feebly raising his arms toward the towering Queen’s Park structure. With tears streaming down his cheeks, Creighton [...] Keep Reading

The Hand Eye Society is a new Toronto special interest group, specially interested in exactly what, i don’t know. Noted crazy person Jimmy McGinley invited me to speak about Kahoots™, our upcoming fun crime-themed puzzle game, at the group’s second session this Thursday April 23rd at 7:00 PM. Freaky eye image, unabashedly stolen from the [...] Keep Reading