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Flash 5/MX games and experiments from early 2000

Duncan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:37:02 +0000

Whilst searching through my hard-drive the other day, I found a bunch of games and experiments I did in Flash 5/MX. At that time I was still working in engineering, and reading everything I could about the the web and computer languages. Although the games are not ground breaking and the experiments just fluff, I find looking through them very nostalgic. They came at a the point when I finally realised I could do this web stuff for a living.

The source for the games is still missing which is frustrating, but I did find the source for all the experiments.

Nizlopi’s JCB song

Duncan — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:39:00 +0000

You have to watch this music video of Nizlopi’s JCB Song. I don’t really know much about them but the video is the most amazingly lovely thing I have seen in a long long time. It will make you smile.

Appear in a film trailer

Duncan — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:33:00 +0000

This is a bit of fun. It’s a little toy someone has built to go along with the Wedding Crashers movie. It allows you to upload an image and then appear in the movie trailer. As you can see from the image below I have another career in the waiting ..

UPDATE: here’s one my friend Martyn did. It really made me laugh

Michal Levy

Duncan — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:47:39 +0000

My friend Gideon has this great link on his site of an amazing flash animation by Michal Levy. It reminds me of an old pink panther film for some reason. With a soundtrack of John Coltrane, it really is an amazing piece of work.

Human clock

Duncan — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:51:16 +0000

This has probably been around for ever, but I’ve never seen it before. What a great idea. I have seen a similar type of live clock over at Yugop a while ago but it never used peoples own photos.

I just deciding which photo to send in …

The Zoom Quilt

Duncan — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:52:49 +0000

This is a great collaborative art project in which you if you choose the flash link get to zoom into the image. The thing is you don’t stop, you just keep zooming. Really nice

Flash 8 etc

Duncan — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:54:37 +0000

I went to a presentation by Macromedia yesterday on Flash and the future. I have not really been that active in any flash development for a while now due to just not having the time to concentrate on it. The presentation was heavily weighted towards Flash video which I am guessing was premeditated as we are currently do more video on demand. A lot of what was said I had actually read in books so nothing new there and the Mission Impossible clip that they use to demo with I’m sure I have also seen used in a similar demo somewhere before.

After this we had a brief incite into what the Flash 8 player will behold. We were told that the plugin is going to be rebuilt from the bottom up. It’s will feature:

10x faster than previous flash 7 plugin
new anti alias engine
support for higher quality/size video
better masking (on the fly)
runtime filters

It does all sound rather nice. With this however will come a new plugin that is double the size of the current. Meaning the new one will be around 900k, and thats on a PC. I guess the Mac one will be even larger. And as for the Linux one, who knows. On that subject I asked if they were planning on producing a version of the flash application for Linux. He said that a year ago the answer would have been a flat no but things have changed and that it now could be a possibility in the future (hurrah!). I also asked if any of the depreciated action script in flash will ever actually be depreciated to which I didn’t really get a very clear answer. I never have understood why they have been telling us for years that certain elements will be deprecated and not one has yet??

Anyway it was a nice presentation which I found very encouraging. Oh and the food was nice too.

johncoltrane.com

Duncan — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:34:34 +0000

A friend of mine sent me a link to the John Coltrane site a while back. It is a flash based site and is designed in a really simple clean way. The navigation system I think is simple fantastic. It’s been a while since I have seriously checked out whats going on flash wise and if this is what I’m missing I’ll have to start again. Back when I was doing a lot of flash stuff my whole approach was to create simple and clean flash movies. Check it out now ..

Also by the way the music on the site is obviously great. Congratulations to http://www.automat.at/ whom designed the site.

www.brianmung.com

Duncan — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:42:54 +0000

This guy produces the greatest flash animations. I’m sure I’ve see his stuff at a site called blue yonder or something. Anyway check it out and click on everything.

hidden games in flash mx application

Duncan — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:15:31 +0000

I found this on flashmagazine. I had missed this but the hidden games in Flash MX can be found in the About Flash popup available from the Help menu. Double Click the exact middle of the “crotch” of the X in MX (like on image) and 6 hidden games will be revealed. It can be a bit hard to find the exact pixel that you have to click, so try a bit before giving up. You must be online.The games range from very simple to classic entertainment. Great time-wasters if you have some time to spare.What fun.