Using Fullscreen Interactive and Mouse Lock in Flash Player 11.3

Fullscreen Interactive Feature In Flash Player 11.3 (currently in beta on labs.adobe.com) there is a new feature that allows applications to use full keyboard input in fullscreen mode. To use the new fullscreen interactive feature you must first set the “allowFullscreenInteractive=true” value in the HTML embed code. Then in ActionScript you set the display state correctly, stage.displayState =...

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Epic Games Unreal Engine in the Browser Try For Yourself

You can now try out the Epic Games Unreal engine running in the browser for yourself. All you need is the Flash Player 11.2 RC installed and then go to the http://unrealengine.com/flash/ website. Here is a screenshot of it running in Chrome on my MacBook Pro:Mark Rein form Epic Games talks about the latest Unreal demo at GDC. At the Adobe GDC booth you can also see us show off Dungeon Defenders by Trendy which also uses the Unreal...

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Flash Game Summit 2012

Flash Game Summit is held before the big Game Developer Conference (GDC). The 2012 Flash Game Summit was a great turn out, with a wide variety of attendees. Because you get a crowd that usually comes in for GDC from around the world Flash Game Summit has people and companies from all over the world. Adobe is a sponsor and this year they provided live streaming as well as recordings of the sessions. So if you were not able to attend in person you...

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Upcoming Game Conferences I’ll be at

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...

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The Gaming Side of Renaun

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...

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