Posts from August, 2008

Aug 25
♥ ⇒ HTML Character Symbols © ™ ←

When creating HTML websites and emails, it’s important to use proper HTML character symbols.

Here’s a link to Ackadia’s guide to HTML character symbols

Aug 05
The Death Star as inspiration

 

Check out Creatives Unlimited for a cool take on locational data visualisation. I swear it reminds me of that Death Star Holograph scene from Star Wars.  

Aug 05
Little Planets!

 

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Aug 01
Circles, circles everywhere.

Some inspirational resources for all things round:

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Aug 01
Flash Physics Engines

When making a flash game, it’s always nice to have believable physics. However, having to code your own physics engine is not always so nice. The good news is…you don’t have to. Below is a list of AS3 class libraries that make simulating physics relatively easy.

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ActionScript Physics Engine

APE is written and maintained by Alec Cove, and can be used in Flash or Flex. I have actually had time to play around with this one, and can say that it is very easy to use. Visit the Site

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Aug 01
Cool flash toy. Physics and rag doll included!

 http://roxik.com/toy1.html

Check it out. 

Aug 01
AS2 to AS3 migration chart

Getting your gotoAndPlay() mixed up with your flash.display.MovieClip.gotoAndPlay() ? Well then this helpful table will sort out some of your Actionscript woes. 

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/migration.html