Prerequisites: none. Begin So you want to start creating games with Adobe Flash? Here’s the very first step. You’ll need two pieces of software: Adobe Flash, and a program to in which to write your code. (Code is a list of instructions you give to the computer to make it bend to your steely will.) You [...] Keep Reading

Many folks have been voicing their concerns about Adobe’s Flash player plugin. Without it, there would be no advertising on the Internet. We could play phenomenally fun games written in Javascript, and all our video would be delivered via HTML5. And finally, FINALLY, our whirring laptop fans would be quieted, and our [...] Keep Reading

i’m sure i’ll be one of many, many, people dismantling Steve Jobs’s recent argument against Flash line by line, but the more voices chiming in to combat Apple’s spin on the subject, the better. Jobs’s article reminded me a lot of the US political campaigns that we Canadians watch from a distance, shaking our [...] Keep Reading

TOJam, this city’s premiere game industry event, has come and gone. As you may well know, the jam is a weekend-long expo where game developers young and old (but mostly young), male and female (but mostly male), from all walks of life (but mostly white) descend on an ever-changing venue with one purpose and [...] Keep Reading

IMPORTANT: What’s that ungodly sound coming through my speakers/headphones? Scroll midway down the post and find the Flash piece called Bouncing Baby Boys. Then click on the bouncing ball to stop the sound effect. Then pop back up here and keep reading. It Begins i spoke to some students the Toronto chapter IGDA meeting [...] Keep Reading