I thought I’d start dusting off some content from the archive. Here’s a video of a Peacock Mantis Shrimp from Taiwan…
Videos
Game packaged with AIR running on 3 different mobile devices
I just tried packaging a game, written in AS3, for my iPad, PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device – works pretty well!
Lurpak Breakfast – Behind the screens
Winning two DMA awards back in 2009, I thought I’d give a quick insight into how the animation effects in this piece were achieved. Continue reading Lurpak Breakfast – Behind the screens
Wii Paint
After getting my Wii remote hooked up with the WiiFlash Server, I knocked up this quick Flash demo which draws the blobs of infrared light the Wii remote detects (it can track up to 4 blobs at once), just like the Wii console’s sensitivity setting dialog does. I just gave each blob a different colour and clear the graphics on pressing the ‘A’ button.
Here’s the code to get it working – requires WiiFlash Server:
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import org.wiiflash.Wiimote; import org.wiiflash.IR; import org.wiiflash.events.ButtonEvent; import org.wiiflash.events.WiimoteEvent; import flash.events.*; var myWiimote:Wiimote = new Wiimote(); myWiimote.connect();myWiimote.addEventListener(WiimoteEvent.UPDATE, onUpdated); myWiimote.addEventListener(ButtonEvent.A_PRESS, onAPressed); function onUpdated (pEvt:WiimoteEvent):void { var ir:IR = pEvt.target.ir; var irWidth:Number = 400; var irHeight:Number = 400; var irSize:Number = 4; if (ir.p1) drawCircle(ir.x1*irWidth, ir.y1*irHeight, ir.size1*irSize, 0xff0000); if (ir.p2) drawCircle(ir.x2*irWidth, ir.y2*irHeight, ir.size2*irSize, 0x00ff00); if (ir.p3) drawCircle(ir.x3*irWidth, ir.y3*irHeight, ir.size3*irSize, 0x0000ff); if (ir.p4) drawCircle(ir.x4*irWidth, ir.y4*irHeight, ir.size4*irSize, 0xffff00); } function onAPressed (pEvt:ButtonEvent):void { graphics.clear(); pEvt.target.rumbleTimeout = 50; } function drawCircle (x:Number, y:Number, size:Number, colour:Number=0xffffff):void { graphics.beginFill(colour, .2); graphics.drawCircle(x,y,size); } |
Dinky Bomb – multiplayer game
Back in 2002 some colleagues and I built one of the web’s first and most popular online multi-user Flash games, Dinky Bomb.
After the dotcom we were working for folded (NOW.com / Gamer TV), it was sold to EA and subsequently acquired by Atari, who have unfortunately done little with it. Gone for now, but not forgotten; there are a few YouTube videos out there, including this one, which features Dinky Bomb as part of a TV game show from way back then… good times! Continue reading Dinky Bomb – multiplayer game