With the shift of my focus on Flash’s gaming focus it means I get to attend game conferences. Adobe will have a presence at GDC and Flash Game Summit as well as other events through the year. I will be in San Francisco for both Flash Game Summit and GDC.If you haven’t taken the time to come up to speed on Flash Player’s current useful gaming features and future features check out the stuff below. Stage3D Desktop (Currently...

There are a lot of posts on how to configure projects to get up and running with Stage3D. With Flash Builder 4.6 and Flex 4.6 SDK some of the steps are not needed, like getting a different playerglobal.swc and setting the -swf-version=13. But you still need to set the wmode="direct" in the index.template.html for Stage3D content to run. Reading a bunch of posts some people just change this by hand for each project. Others post about how to...

I love games. Both PC and Board/Card games. I loved exploring different interests in college from computers, archeology, and music. Through all those years and up to now gaming has always been apart of me. Great memories around gaming shaped me up to day. Like having a paper route when I was 12, just to go buy 2 Nintendo games each month. Or family reunions of playing spoons and watching my 70 yr old great-grandma leap over the table to get to a...

Building a Flex mobile application that works across smartphones and tablets takes an understanding of screen sizes, screen dots per inch (DPI) and screen resolutions. In the current landscape of devices typically you consider a tablet something bigger then a 5-6 inch physical screen. Also in the current device landscape screen resolutions are for tablets are typically greater then 1024×600 (original Galaxy Tab 7′ and PlayBook), while...

First off I am not sure why I haven’t made this before. I have needed this over the years on a couple of projects. If you are embedding strings in an application and you know exactly what characters are being used this will come in handy to save on the SWF size. You can tell Flash what glyphs of a font to embed with the unicodeRange property. Here is an example: [css] @font-face { src: url(“/assets/fonts/Arial.otf”); ...

The following code example comes from my experience in building the Caltrain Times mobile application. In the process of building out Caltrain Times I needed to convert some MXML item renders into ActionScript item renderers. I used some Flex CSS class selectors to change the look and feel for some labels based upon a selected state. I also had variations of font sizes in the Flex CSS class selectors based upon application dpi. When going from...