Author Archives: Mims H Wright

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Slow Summer, New House, IMDB

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Mims H Wright

What the hell? Where are all the posts? What’s happening in the world of interactive awesome? Well, for starters, we got a sweet new blog skin that so far hasn’t crashed the server or reverted to Kubrick! Hooray! I’ll admit, … Continue reading →

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Side-by-side comparison shows blitting isn’t a huge speed bump

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Mims H Wright

This isn’t a new article, but it touches on a topic I’ve heard a lot about recently. That is, pixel ‘blitting‘. Blitting is an old school process used in sprite-based games of essentially erasing a spot in a bitmap image … Continue reading →

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Suzuki Kizashi vs. Evil Weather game launches

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Mims H Wright

I recently created this video game for Suzuki to promote the Kizashi’s all-wheel-drive performance. I threw this together in about 2.5 weeks starting with some code I wrote for the Global Game Jam. All in all, I’m pretty happy with … Continue reading →

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AS3 Bible translated to 繁體中文

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Mims H Wright

Yesterday, completely unannounced, a package arrived at my doorstep containing two copies of the ActionScript 3.0 Bible Traditional Chinese Edition! Well, that’s pretty Zang if you ask me! I’m going to keep one as a trophy but if you can … Continue reading →

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Speaking Wednesday night at the LA Flex User Group

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Mims H Wright

I’m going to be speaking at the LA Flex User Group in Santa Monica on Wednesday, March 17, about Skinning in Flex 4. I know it’s late notice but come on down if you can make it!

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