crapDAMMIT! i took just a look at the NOW magazine article: If anyone understands the draw, it’s Ryan Henson Creighton, a former video game reviewer who’s currently a senior game developer with Corus Entertainment in Toronto. i’m not sure how i could have avoided this. i thought that since i was emailing the writer from my untoldentertainment.com [...] Keep Reading

*sigh* i tried this whole schtick last week. i wrote a “clips show” post linking to some of Untold Entertainment’s more interesting articles to pacify the throngs of visitors charging to this site from ICE 08. Unfortunately, i was only a last minute replacement on the ICE panel, and i think i mumbled [...] Keep Reading

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 SOLUTION: _xscale and _yscale properties have been replaced by scaleX and scaleY, which are both properties of the DisplayObject class.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