While working on adding Facebook connectivity for a Flash based project, I found myself spending way too much time fighting with the Facebook-as3 API. For a Flash developer, there are two basic ways of using the Facebook API: directly with HTTP requests or with the help of Adobe’s facebook-as3 API. This library is maintained by [...]
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This article is cross-posted from #AltDevBlogADay. Last month I participated in the Toronto Game Jam, where game developers make a game over one weekend. The game ‘Pileup’ was made that way, with most coding done during the TOJam. This is a detailed postmortem of the game ‘Pileup’. You can read more about my TOJam experience [...]
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Couple of weeks back I participated in TOJam #6, Toronto’s annual game jam. The event has transformed from a small gathering of wannabes into a real developer community event, drawing more game professionals and lots of media attention (more on that here). For me this was a new experience, and a challenge to conquer: could I really complete a game [...]
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With the recent release of AIR 2.7, I thought it would be a good idea to return to the basics of efficient code. While the performance is greatly improved on mobile and desktop, it’s still the coders responsibility to stick to best practices and avoid performance killers. The same is true for Flash inside a browser (Flash Player [...]
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