Linerider Jumps the Shark Oct 12. 066
Seems there’s been a lot of buzz about this little game on the web, I’ve been a little late to give it a try but now I have, I’m totally addicted. It’s a ‘simple’(?) Flash based game where the objective is to ‘draw’ a course for the ‘Line Rider’ to ride (ahem).
‘Linerider Jumps the Shark’ (above) is perhaps the most incredible demonstration of what someone can acheive with a little patience. My attempts don’t even come close.
Creativity in a Telly Stylee Aug 18. 062
Blip.tv, Google Video and YouTube content experimentally re-engineered into the most fantastically simple yet compelling interface.
Look out for the subtle transitions between clips. Kudos to Paul Neave. Very nice work.
(hat tip: Robin Parker).
Calling all Freelance Flash Developers! Mar 09. 060
Here at Nine Four we have a fair few Flash based projects on the horizon, and I’m a little short on freelance Flash talent. So if you think:
- You’re a bit of an ActionScript guru,
- You love Flash based games,
- And you want to work with me… (?)
or…
- You’re a total ActionScript guru (Yes, total!),
- You have experience interfacing between Flash and Server Side Programming Languages,
- And you want to make Flash beg you for mercy…
…drop us an email [studio at ninefour dot co dot uk] including some recent (and relevant) portfolio examples and an indication of your hourly rate.
When Flash ‘is’ good. Sep 09. 055
It’s not often that you come across Flash based websites which really make the most of this highly interactive medium. More often than not Flash sites exist because it was the easiest way for the developer to produce a consistent result, and one which in reality could have easily been accomplished with just a sprinkling of flash, or even none at all.
Dontclick.it however is the total opposite, a site which would never work using good old XHTML and CSS (Well maybe with a very very large serving of JavaScript). Thank goodness more designers and developers are starting to use Flash for the right reasons.
Flash Player Detection Kit Macrochat Jan 27. 050
This Friday Jason Wylie (Senior Technical Support Engineer at Macromedia) will be presenting “Introducing the Flash Player Detection Kit”.
This macrochat will explain how to create a Flash Player detection script from scratch, use the Detection Kit to create the script, and help you to understand why detecting the Flash Player on a website is important.
It will be interesting to see what the response is to deployment of Flash within XHTML after the discussion around this subject over at all in the head a couple of months back.