We were at TCAF – the Toronto Comic Arts Festival – this past weekend, showing off a new Spellirium prototype, thanks to the generous support of the Hand Eye Society. Full Frontal Nerdity (thanks to Paul Forest for the photo) We ran two different pieces on the monitor. The first was an art reel, with [...] Keep Reading

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.) [...] 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 computers would only [...] 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 heads [...] Keep Reading

Once you’re finished playing the game, click here to answer our quick survey! Instructions Click a letter, then click anywhere within that row or column to slide to that position Click and drag the letters to spell a word Click and drag adjacent letters to make them swap places [...] Keep Reading