Silver medal at Android Hackathon

I participated in Android Hackathon this weekend, where the goal was to build a game for an Android phone in one day – and the theme was retro (8-16 bits).

Embedded fonts disappear when updating to Flex SDK 4.1

I recently updated my flex SDK to 4.1, (from 3.x) just to find that all my embedded fonts were missing.

This was the scenario:

• Embedding fonts using the [Embed] meta tag
• Applying font using TextFormat (don’t know what happens if you use CSS, my guess is that it won’t work either)

Quick fix: note the “embedAsCFF”

[Embed(source="font.ttf", fontFamily="x", mimeType="application/x-font", embedAsCFF="false")]
public var FontClass:Class;

A collection of tutorials

Here are some really good tutorials. They are definetly worth your time!

http://www.bit-101.com/tutorials/ Excellent tutorials by Keith Peters about Perspective, Elasticity, 3D Rotation and more. A good place to start looking for your first steps in 3d!

http://student.kuleuven.be/~m0216922/CG/ Learn some really cool old school computer graphics effects such as perlin noise fire, ray casting or some Image Arithmetic.

How to make a game like Metro.Siberia

A guy named Emanuel Feronato has written a series of tutorials about how to make a game like Metre.Siberia. I think the tutorial is a good place for thoose of you who are pretty new with flash/actionscript, and I’m flattered that he choose MS to make a tutorial of!

http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2008/01/18/create-a-flash-game-like-metro-siberia-underground/

Nibbles - by my brother

This is the game “Snake” – most known from the nokia-cellphones, but before that the game was called “Nibbles” and programmed on QBasic.