The Flash Gaming Summit, a (now) annual event sponsored by the usual suspects in the Flash gaming world, has come and gone. Scheduled strategically a day before the Game Developers Conference begins, the mini-con fills an auditorium with everyone who’s anyone in the Flash gaming scene, from solo hobbyist developers to extremely successful yet Satanic [...] Keep Reading

It is with regret that i announce that Untold Entertainment Inc. will be closing its doors … … for ONE WEEK ONLY, while we take in the Flash Gaming Summit and the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco!! Lost in La Mancha This will be my fourth year at GDC, and my first time [...] Keep Reading

If you’ve read any of my other posts about the province of Ontario backing up the money truck, you know the score: the provincial government doles out a bunch of cash every year to the Ministry of Culture, who disperses it through an organization called the OMDC (Ostentatious Mixers of Daquiri-like Cocktails). The OMDC doesn’t [...] Keep Reading

As i see it, there are two ways to approach programming in Flash with Actionscript: the right way, and the “this thing is due at the end of the week” way. Throughout my career, i haven’t enjoyed the luxury of big budgets and generous timelines. The broadcasters are cheap, the teevee producers work mostly on [...] Keep Reading

The mid-term exam that i ran yesterday during the college-level Flash course i’m teaching was an absolute slaughter. Limbs flying, computers exploding, babies endangered … just an action-packed mess. It served as the perfect rationale for my recent articles on What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges (Part 1 and Part 2). These are the notes for [...] Keep Reading