Actionscript Creme 3

Here's what I found really interesting recently regarding actionscript / flash / flex


Deploying to and android device from Flash Professional

Really simple to do :)


Implementing multitouch gestures : zoom / rotate on Android : 

And you can do them simultaneously as well of course!

Converting an Android flex application to iOS
Can be done in just 6 minutes :)



Enjoy!

Actionscript Creme 2 : Books!

And all of these books have great reviews. I believe that flash is the best platform for indie games. You can target the key main dream platforms (android, iphone, facebook, chrome web store) will the same code. And that is simply unbeatable.

So here is a list of books that I would like to go through to be an mid level expert in the matter of flash gaming :

Beginning 
This book is a beginners guide and has 4.6 stars as of this writing on amazon!














Going Advanced! 
By the same fellow (rex spuy) that wrote the above title. Again amazing amazon reviews!












Go multiplayer! 
Start here:
And at 400 pages not a heavy read :)














Enjoy!

Actionscript Creme :1

There is a lot of great actionscript content being generated by the community. I thought I'd start a series of blog post about these so here goes.

Handling Orientation in Flash CS5.5 for Android
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtMEzzzf4I

Basically you create two keyframes with different orientations of the stage and toggle them using actionscript on the resize event by comparing the device height with device width.

Flash Typing text effect 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCo0w3u2cg
This was super neat and easy to do. I wonder why I didn't think of it. You just split the string you want to type on the screen and store it in an array. Then in the ENTER_FRAME event you simply shift the array appending the shifted character to a textfield on the screen making sure you remove the event listener after all characters in the array have been printed to screen.

Creating Paypal buttons in Flash 
http://tutfree.com/active/quick-guide-creating-paypal-buttons-with-actionscript-3-0.html
Really simple to do really :)

A simple lottery application
http://www.ilike2flash.com/2011/06/lottery-app-in-actionscript-3.html
An easy to follow tutorial that actually makes a somewhat useful application :)

Creating a Picture gallery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pVocHKcS8&feature=player_embedded
A simple tutorial. More about a simple gallery banner rather than a Gallery. Just useful to get the creative juices flowing for a newbie.


Now for a book I would like to read about actionscript :















Enjoy!