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 [...] Keep Reading

“Fwitter”. Deal with it. Our Pull Twitter Updates Into Flash tutorials (Part 1 and Part 2) continue to be popular! A few folks were asking how i had taken my Twitter feed and rigged it so that people’s Twitter names and links were clickable. i promised to write tutorials on demand, so here we [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: The SOUND_COMPLETE event is not triggered when your sound finishes playing. SOLUTION: There are a few different reasons why this problem may occur, but here’s how it played out in my project: When you’re listening for a SOUND_COMPLETE event, you work with two Classes: Sound and SoundChannel. The event listener goes on the SoundChannel instance: var sound:Sound = [...] Keep Reading

i’ve been using Unity3D on and off for a week now. i’d burned through about a dozen beginner tutorials, and am a little overwhelmed by how much i don’t know about the engine, which enables you to create 3D games to deploy to a number of platforms, including the iPhone and web browsers. i’d look [...] Keep Reading

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) concept of encapsulation, and how to break encapsulation to get stuff done in a decent amount of time. Technical Correctness vs. Getting Sh*t Done i’ve been really happy with the way this series has been received. If you’re like me, you’ve had a hard time understanding the [...] Keep Reading