dispatchEvent()™

…was a pretty cool example of integrating flash, video, and the real world. It still didn’t make me want to see the movie though.

http://eagleeyefreefall.com/

Colour Lovers API lets you pull color palette information with very Flash-friendly urls and XML results! I dare you to make something with this.

Also, I found this little blog post very interesting.

One of the new features in KitchenSync 1.5 is the ability to tween animations on a MovieClip’s timeline… and I’m not just talking about gotoAndPlay(), I’m talking about controlling the starting and stopping points, speed, and easing functions of an animation on the timeline with code. It does this by incrementally controlling the current frame number of the MovieClip using a KSTween and a special ITweenTarget (a class used to control the values of an object) called TimelineController.

Take this FLA animation.

As you can see, there is a simple animation using a guide layer and labels on the key frames.

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Amazing developer Roxik shows us all what you can do with a brilliant custom 3d engine, great visual programming tricks, and some terrific art (especially love the incredible shadow maps)!

Visit ECODA!DOBUTSUEN!

Here’s a site with some cool IA patterns.
Nice One
If you liked that, there’s more at Yahoo’s Design Pattern Library.
This link is from Information Aesthetics… aaand there’s more like this on Ethan Eismann’s blog who is incidentally an Adobe Thermo Developer.

If you want, this processor can make you a smoothie, and if you’re lucky, run Crysis.

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French 3d artist Zamak is totally amazing. If I wasn’t convinced that I suck at 3D modeling I would make stuff like this, but fortunately, i’m still good at looking at it.
Zamak Blog
Zamak’s Flash Site

Feliz Día Del Amor, Niños,
Why not try out an oldie but a goodie! Kid Cupid is a game I worked on a few years back while I was working with Domani Studios. The idea is that you’re the ‘real’ cupid who’s fending off the incoming impostor cupids. The motivation for the art style was that you’re playing the fantasy of a 3rd grade kid who was flicking candy hearts over his valentine cards on his desk at school.

Surprisingly, Kid Cupid is still fun 3 years later.

A Norwegian usability firm called NetLife Research has put out their 2008 version of the Bad Usability Calendar. Check it out for the lulz and don’t forget to visit the archive page for more.

Johnny Chung Lee is my nerd hero!