Adobe AIR and FlashPlayer 15 Beta
Beta builds of Adobe AIR 15 and Flash Player 15 are now available for download and I must say, there are some really nice features in the works. Here’s a few that caught my eye: Cross promotion of AIR mobile games This is possibly the feature I’m excited about most. Anyone who has released a […]
Flash and WebGL on Mobile
I got my hands on an HTC One the other day so thought I’d give the demo from my An Introduction to Flash’s WebGL Runtime API tutorial a quick run. When writing the tutorial I’d simply assumed it would work, but I didn’t actually have a WebGL-enabled handset to actually try it on. When my […]
An Introduction to Flash’s WebGL Runtime API
Learn how to build interactive WebGL content using Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 that will run across both desktop and mobile browsers. What you will learn… How to publish for WebGL from Flash Professional CC 2014 The basics of Flash’s WebGL Runtime API How to work with Flash movie-clips using JavaScript What you should know… […]
Adobe AIR Games Showcase #4
It’s time to take a look at some more great games built with Adobe AIR. If you’re using the Flash platform, or any other development platform for that matter, to build your own games then hopefully you’ll find some inspiration here. If you’re just looking for a few games to play then I don’t think […]
Integrated Native Physics in the Flash Runtime
Over the last year or so there’s been much talk from the community regarding the need for the integration of native physics within the Flash runtime. Adobe’s Flash product manager, Chris Campbell, has opened this up for further discussion on the Adobe Communities forum. Personally I think this might be a good thing as Adobe […]
Adobe AIR Games Showcase #3
I’ve come across quite a number of Adobe AIR games over the last few months so thought it was about time I did another round-up. There’s actually too many AIR games out there these days, particularly on mobile, so unfortunately I can’t cover them all. However here’s five that caught my eye for one reason […]
Endless Runner AS3 Source Code
So that’s the ActionScript 3 version of my endless runner on GitHub. The JavaScript and TypeScript versions both used PixiJS as the 2D renderer, but of course, for the AS3 version I’m using the excellent Starling Framework. If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years you’ll know that my endless runner actually started […]
AIR’s Improved iOS Packaging Engine
It has been available since AIR 4.0 but I’ve held off covering AIR’s improved packaging engine for iOS due to a major bug at the time. Thankfully it seems to be fixed in the AIR 13.0 beta (yup we’ve gone from 4.0 to 13.0 in one step) so I thought I’d take the packager out […]
Adobe AIR Games Showcase #2
It used to be the case I’d have to actively go looking for desktop and mobile games written in AIR, but these days they aren’t that hard to find. Personally I think it shows AIR’s increasing strengths as a games (and mobile in particular) development platform. Anyway, here are few games that really show the […]
Flash Love
My girlfriend once asked me whether I loved her more than Flash. Of course I didn’t hesitate and immediately asked her what version of Flash she was talking about. Apparently that was the wrong answer and I’ve been trying ever since to find the perfect way to make it up to her. Well, I think […]