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Archive for March, 2008

We’re Hiring: ActionScript 3 Engineer

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 26th, 2008

Well, we’re basically always hiring (so apply even if this ad goes away), but given that the OSFlash Job Board just had a relaunch, we thought we’d try our luck at using it.
Here’s the contents of the job posting:
ActionScript 3 Engineer
DigiDeal Corporation, Spokane Valley, WA
Deal yourself a winning hand! Join DigiDeal and [...]

Adobe MAKE SOME NOISE

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 18th, 2008

I was also having problems with the SOUND_COMPLETE event. I discovered Andre Michelle’s post petition about it and promptly added my name to the list. There have been multiple other people posting about the problem also. Unfortunately, the only response that I could find from Adobe was by Brent Baker on a bug report for [...]

Automatic Flash X,Y Wireframe Preview

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 14th, 2008

At the company I work for we use Functional Specification documents for any new Flash game that we make. Before any of the developers start any coding, the design team puts together a simple frame by frame Flash file to make it easy to see what things will look like in the various states of [...]

Web Collage – Cool Idea

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 12th, 2008

I stumbled across a site today by Jamie Zawinski that randomly pulls various images from the web blindly (I do not know the workings of the algorithm) and throws them together every 60 seconds or so into a collage. If any of the images spark your interest, simply click on it to go to the [...]

mouseEnabled and mouseChildren Affect CPU Load

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 11th, 2008

I was reading a post from Keith Peters today and noticed a comment made by Ryan Taylor mentioning that mouseEnabled and mouseChildren affect the CPU load. I had to know if this was true or not so I promptly created an experiment app. The app randomly creates 700 parent sprites and 700 nested children sprites. [...]

I now have Adobe AIR on Linux!

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 10th, 2008

Adobe accepted me into the AIR on Linux Alpha tester program! I just finished downloading everything and will let you know how it runs shortly. On a side note, I’m hoping it will fix the long-standing “while connected over an XML socket to a server, play a sound file and the network connection gets dropped” [...]