Find out what were the challenges and issues in creating a new Drupal Image Module using Flash and Flex technology. Get the inside tips from an Adobe Evangelist on what it takes to complete this kind of project, and stand a chance to win your own copy of Flex Builder* to help you get started with your development.
Walk through:

• Front end design of widgets and main page
• Back-end integration with Drupal
• Importing your libraries from Flickr and Picassa
• How to account for loading issues when having large libraries of images
• Why Flex and ActionScript where the technology of choice for such a project

Join Mihai Corlan for a 30 minute e-seminar on how this module was built. http://drupalimagemodule-evng.eventbrite.com

The first issue is out:
Flex 4: Beginning http://zdrojak.root.cz/clanky/flex-4-zaciname/

I am planning to publish an article per week.

Check it out!

My good friend and Adobe ColdFusion specialist Claude Englebert will be leading ColdFusion 9 workshop in Prague on February 23 2010 in the afternoon. I will join Claude and show some Flex 4/CF9 stuff. We have a limited number of seats so feel free to register now and reserve your place.

Location: Adobe Office Prague, Radlická 714/113a, Praha 5

• RTMP Groups
• App Multicast
• Object Replication
• Posting
• Directed Routing

Other sources:
- Read more about new Stratus capabilities here at Kevin’s blog.
- Also check out the new Labs page about RTMFP Groups.
- My article about Multicast in Flash Player 10.1
- Read about differences between Stratus and LCCS

• Power
• Speed
• Friction
• Wind
• Rotation
• Gravity
• Thrust

Although these tutorials are written in ActionScript 2.0, you might find it very useful and easy to rewrite them in AS3.

Check it out here

“It’s a useful extension for 3D animation and can be used by anyone.”
Check out the examples.

Rendering
FreeSpin3D is rendered by OneLayer 3D Engine (OL3D), their own proprietary technology, which FULLY utilizes the Flash native 3D classes.

ActionScript API
You can access objects via Freespin3D API or use prepared behaviors.

Import 3D file
Freespin3D works natively with proprietary FL3D files, but you can import 3DS MAX files using the Freespin3D importer written in AIR.

Check out the feature overview.

Just a little heads-up of upcoming events, where I will be speaking:

Jan 23 2010 - iPhoneDevCamp, Prague
First Czech iphone dev camp organized in Prague. I will be talking about iPhone development in Flash CS5. If you are in town - check it out.

Feb 15-18 2010 Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
Premiere world event in the mobile space. You can catch me at the Adobe Booth every day.

Mar 20 2010 JuniorInternet, Prague
Conference for young creative people organized in 4 countries. I am hosting an inspirational Flash session. Adobe is general partner.

Mar 27-28 2010 JuniorInternet, Bratislava

I’ve put together this list of libraries and engines to help you start building Flash games or to explore new possibilities.

• 2D Engines
• ISO Engines
• Physics Engines
• 3D Engines
• Social Gaming Platforms
• Useful AS3 Libs

We’ve also launched the Flash Platform Game Technology Center, which is definitely a great resource for every developer.

These are the libraries I personally consider highly useful for game development. Some of them are just for games - others are great complements. I am not going to write a lot about each of as they are mostly doing the same kinds of things, such as collision detection, physics, tilemaps, optimized rendering, levels, sounds/volume, game states, scores, and more. Some of them even offer multiplayer support. It’s better (and more fun) to try some demo games and see them in action.

2D engines

Flixel
Full featured game engine for 2D bitmap platform game development. Check out the feature list here.

You probably know the legendary game Canabalt built with this engine.

FlashPunk
Another great and pretty fast engine for 2D bitmap games.

PushButton Engine
Another great engine with Box2D physics and multiplayer networking support. Try YouTopia on facebook.

ISO engines

AS3 ISO LIB
As3isolib includes utilities, primitives and views. As3isolib was developed with simplicity, speed and performance in mind so that developers can focus on actual implementations rather than having to learn a complex API.

TheoWorlds
“TheoSDK is a kit based on our original Theo Isometric Engine™ and it lets you create your own map-based games fast.”

Source: Isometric Game Engines

OpenSpace - ISO engine

Physics engines

Flave - verlet physics engine 2D
JigLib - 3D physics engine
Box2D - 2D physics
APE (ActionScript Physics Engine) - 2D physics
WOW Engine - 3D physics

3D engines (related)

Alternativa3D, Away3D, Papervision3D, Five3D, Sandy 3D

TankiOnline - popular Flash 3D game in Alternativa3D

Publish Your Game: Social Gaming Platforms

Platogo
Build your games and publish to Platogo and earn money - social platform for games with ActionScript 3 API (Score, Levels, Ranking, Multiplayer, etc.)

Geewa.com
Develop games for this social site with multiplayer support. Get the SDK

Facebook
Surely facebook is great platform for your games. Get the Facebook ActionScript API. See how to develop Facebook apps in Flash at Devnet. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook

Other Useful ActionScript Libraries

AS3 Data Structures For Game Developers (AS3DS) - lot of useful structures for general game development

BaseUI
Layouting like in Flex, but for Flash (pure AS3, no Flex).

vancura-AS3-libs
Set of pure ActionScript components with skinning and styling support. Scale9Bitmap support

BrowserCanvas
Easiest way to dynamically resize Flash

FreeSpin3D
Plug-in for Flash CS4 and CS3 enabling realtime interactivity, animation and coding right on stage of Flash Professional.

Now go ahead. Looking forward to your games!

Btw: try SmallWorlds

Note: If you know some other cool libs, just leave a comment and it will be added.

Watch this video created for San Francisco Social Games meetup. I lol’d ,D First you think O-M-G ??? - seriously WHAT? ,))), so weird ufff. On the other hand - listen to it few times and you’ll start spontaneously hearing it and later singing in the shower ,)

Created by Nathan Germick. Btw: check out a few more of his videos.

Presented by my fellow Kevin Hoyt (Platform Evangelist Manager): Creating Real-Time Social Applications With Flex And LiveCycle Collaboration Service.

For all of you familiar with LCCS basics - play it from half (GPS things

You can also watch this session in higher resolution and better UI:
http://2009.max.adobe.com/online/session/298