Auditorium is an elegantly simple puzzle game made in Flash that I found through a post on Daryl Teo’s Blog. The player must direct a stream of particles towards fixed collectors to complete a harmonious melody by manipulating movable icons that represent physical forces. The gameplay is quite simple to pick up at first but the puzzles soon become quite challenging. Every level of polish has been applied to the game from visual effects, like the fade between each level, to the pleasing audio clips generated by the particle collectors. The highly sophisticated elements of particle physics, sound, and design blend together to create a deceptively minimalist experience. Perhaps best of all, multiple solutions are possible for many of the puzzles leading to more exploratory gameplay.

Play Auditorium

The jolly souls at Big Spaceship have launched a really interesting gallery of gorgeous Flash pre-loader animations. Check it out and submit your own!

I caught word that KitchenSync was used for some of the animation! *Blush*

A few things are right here:

1. Making something creative every day.
2. Cute animals
3. Viral self-promotion
4. Lolz LLC is an awesome compnany.

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This could be very useful for code optimization and for a general understanding of what’s going on behind the scenes.

Perhaps the most striking comparisons in this tool are the ones that compare Vectors to Arrays. Looping Vectors appears to be about 60x faster than looping through Arrays. Someone recently asked me when you would want to use Vectors and my response was whenever you possibly can. And if you think about it, the times which you need an untyped Array are (should be) almost never.

…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.

Take this FLA animation.

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

The following SWF uses KitchenSync to control the same ball animation. As you can see, the duration and easing functions of the animation can be controlled. You can even animate backwards!

See it in action.

The source that controls this is here.

package {
	import flash.display.MovieClip;

	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.KitchenSync;
	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.action.*;
	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.action.tweentarget.*;
	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.easing.Bounce;
	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.easing.Cubic;
	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.easing.Linear;
	import org.as3lib.kitchensync.easing.Oscillate;

	/**
	*	Demos the TimelineController which controls the animation of a MovieClip's timeline.
	*/
	public class FlashIntegrationTest extends MovieClip
	{
		protected var test1:MovieClip;

		public function FlashIntegrationTest()
		{
			super();
			// initialize kitchensync.
			KitchenSync.initialize(this, "1.5");

			// add a movieclip from the library
			test1 = MovieClip(new AnimationTest1());
			addChild(test1);

			// define the start and end frame with strings or ints or FrameLabel's
			var startLabel:* = "start";
			var endLabel:* = "end";

			// set up the TimelineController tween target.
			var tweenTarget:TimelineController = new TimelineController(test1, startLabel, endLabel);
			// Animate the ball with a linear ease.
			var tween:KSTween = KSTween.newWithTweenTarget(tweenTarget, "1s", 0, Linear.ease);

			// animate the ball backwards with a bounce tween
			var tween2:KSTween = tween.cloneReversed();
			tween2.duration = "4s";
			tween2.easingFunction = Bounce.easeOut;
			tween2.addTrigger(tween);

			// animate the ball with an oscillator
			var tween3:KSTween = KSTween.newWithTweenTarget(tweenTarget, "10m", "1s", Oscillate.sine);
			tween3.easingMod1 = 0.3;
			tween3.addTrigger(tween2);

			// start the animations
			tween.start();
		}

	}
}

Pretty cool huh? We’re creating a new TimelineController and setting the boundaries of the animation then passing it to a new KSTween object. Each of the three tweens use different parameters and are triggered by the end of the one before it.

You can download the entire thing and play around with it.

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

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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.

Johnny Chung Lee is my nerd hero!