A Real Page-Turner

Here’s a little bit of fiddling I did with pixelbender, the shader language that’s built into Flash these days. I remember a time when the page-turning effect was the hottest thing around in flash, but most were just a clever combination of masks and gradients, at best. My effort uses the pixelbender filter to reposition and shade every pixel in a fairly realistic fashion, modelled on...

Retro Sound Effects

In my spare moments over the last week or two, I’ve been porting the excellent sfxr by Tomas Pettersson into AS3, and it’s finally done! If you haven’t used sfxr before, it’s a really neat app that lets you generate your own custom game sound effects, using the same kind of synthesizers that the classic consoles used. When you’re done tweaking the sound, you can save it...

My Alchemy Presentation

Here in London, Tink hosts a monthly meeting of Flash developers and artists called the London Flash Platform User Group. Every last Thursday of the month, we have two talks on Flash related topics, and then a little bit of drinking and networking and such (well, if you’re going to hold it in a bar…) This month just gone, I gave the first of the two presentations. I chose the topic of Adobe’s...