Oct 6, 2010
FOTB… day 3
It's a little late, but here's our round-up of day three at flash on the beach...
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Oct 1, 2010
MadeByPi Celebrate with first direct on their 21st Birthday
Members of the the MadeByPi team were recently invited down to the first direct headquarters in Leeds, to celebrate their 21st birthday with their staff in style on waltzers, helter skelters, bumper cars and other fun-for-all fair ground rides.
The team at the very wet, but fun day out at first direct
Sep 29, 2010
FOTB… day 2
Jon Howard - Where in the world? Intercontinental ballistic flash
Slightly impaired by the Monday nights drinks, we made it to Jon's globe based presentation. He showed some great techniques for lat & long mapping and a genius way of using excel to calculate equations for camera movement.
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Sep 28, 2010
FOTB… day 1
Two of us have hit Brighton for this year's Flash on the Beach conference! We'll be doing a few short roundups of the talks we've seen over the three days. There's loads of great speakers, so I hope we've picked the right ones to see!
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Aug 25, 2010
FontSwffer
Creating font-asset SWFs for Flash used to be a bit of a pain. But now, there's FontSwffer.
FontSwffer is an Air 2 native application for Windows and OSX that lets you configure, build, and preview your font SWFs all in one place. All you need to do is set-up the fonts you want to embed and press a button, that's pretty much it. If you just want the font embed ActionScript to use in your own work-flow, FontSwffer can create that for you too.
FontSwffer uses the Flex 4 SDK to compile your SWFs, just point it to the location of the SDK on your hard-drive and you're good to go.
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Aug 2, 2010
Apparat – A custom Matryoshka
A few weeks ago Joa Ebert (@joa) released an update to the Apparat Reducer, adding the option of LZMA compression to further reduce your SWF file-sizes.
It works by squeezing your original SWF with LZMA compression, and injecting that data as a ByteArray into a wrapper SWF - hence the Matryoshka moniker.
The Matryoshka handles decompressing the data with an AS3 implementation of LZMA decompression, and then loads the resulting SWF bytes with a standard Loader object.
This all works beautifully, and you can get pretty decent reductions in file-size, especially on larger SWFs.
After testing it, I took a look at the Apparat sources - in particular the LZMA decoder and Matryoshka wrapper - and noticed that because of the use of the Vector type, the code was only compatible with Flash Player 10 or greater.
With the need to create Flash Player 9 compatible content still the part of many a working day, I felt it was worth trying to build a custom version of Apparat with Flash Player 9 compatible Matryoshka and LZMA decompression...
Jul 5, 2010
Beyond
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Minimalist space poster designs, beautiful eh? More after the jump...
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Jun 2, 2010
Rare update
Rare - the games studio responsible for Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark - have had a drastic new rebrand. The new flat colour logos are a striking and modern updates to the old 'golden R' design. Nice stuff. Full gallery inside...
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