If you were at Flash on the Beach this year you’d have seen fellow gaming evangelist Lee Brimelow demo a new set of ActionScript APIs enabling you to leverage the users GPU via Stage3D for 2D games. At Flash on… Continue Reading
Continuing my series of articles around game development with Pushbutton Engine I’ve just posted a new article looking at how to use Bitmap sprites instead of simple shapes as your game assets. This is a foundation article, which I’ll be… Continue Reading
To kick off the New Year here is the first of my articles looking at Pushbutton Engine. In this introduction I’m looking at how you set up your IDE – in this case Flash Builder or Flash Professional. As the… Continue Reading
I’ve been playing video games for the better part of my life. I remember playing Pong and the first time I saw a Space Invaders machine. I spent hours playing Breakout (with it’s striped colour film overlay to give the… Continue Reading
Last night we released a new version of Flash Player (10.1.82). This includes support for H.264 video decoding via the GPU on Mac OS X. Code named Gala, this was previously available as a beta on Adobe Labs. So don’t… Continue Reading