Take a shot at my first free-to-play online Flash Game, the all-time classic Space Invaders.
Have you seen my new frontpage at www.HQ40K.com yet? I've made a small portfolio using Papervision3D and TweenMax, two populair open source Flash-packages. PaperVision3D (Great White) was used for the graphics of the image reel, and TweenMax to bring life and animation to it. Since it's lighter then Adobe's own Tween class, it runs pretty smooth, even in a big resolution or even fullscreen. This is just an example of what can be done!
While exploring the powerfull new XML way Actionscript 3.0 handles XML, I couln't help myself but to dive into PHP5 for a bit too. XML's increasing popularity with front- and backend developers alike is great, it helps us to communicate fairly easy between a client and a server, or even between servers themselves. For instance: this particular text is stored in a database that resides on a machine owned by my webspace provider. It can be requested by three views.
TextFields in Flash may be dynamic as hell, they still don't support XHTML. You'll have to revert your data to the HTML 4.0 specification in order to succesfully make use of bold and italic text. However, most open-source projects that make use of a database are written in XHTML and as such, database records often contain XHTML instead of pure text. While choosing a CMS carefully is important with Flash, you will probably run into this problem sooner or later. I usually solve this issue in PHP, parsing any data before it enters the Flash environment.
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Recently I came across a game I never knew existed: Odin Sphere. Being a late PS2 title, and me still clinging onto it (like it was the hottest console in town), the names Square-Enix and Atlus on the box kind of dumbfounded me. I never knew about this game! Various onine sources state this type of game rarely get's a PAL release. Classified as an action-rpg, Orion Sphere has got some media attention but was never a big release by marketing standards in European countries. Finding a gem of such brilliance is a rare but welcomed occasion for those who loved the typical games Squaresoft once produced, but also enjoy retro-gaming, apart from repeating the various Final Fantasy ports that have been released untill this day.
WOWZA... I'm "kind of a big deal" on GameFaqs I suppose. I've just got some feedback on an old boss FAQ I wrote for Run Like Hell, a pretty cultish videogame for Playstation 2. I guess I should post more old-skool gaming knowlegde, instead of wasting my time on Guild Wars. Thanks for your reply Patrick, I appreciate the effort! Although... this did make me get nervous because of a few spelling errors. Oh well.
For FEXG, The Friends of Freedom Extravaganza (an organisation promoting street theatre in South Africa) I am building a website based on the Joomla framework. This time around, I want more flexibility then ever before. I decided to write an AMFPHP service that is able to pull recordsets from the Joomla database. Below example is almost complete. The only downside to this approach seems to be the nature of Joomla's configuration file. After I include() it in AMFPHP I seem to be able to use all variables exept that of the table prefix.