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Blood, Sweat, Tears, but Mostly Cupcakes

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These are some of the things that went into the making of the new schematic.com site, which has finally been released in public beta. Yeah, yeah, you found a bug, I suck, you’ve never been so offended in your life, what a waste of time, I get it. Go file a report. I won’t accept comments on bugs here.

Anyway, I worked on this site for about the last six months of my tenure at Schematic. It’s all AS3, with no Flex. I took the designs and features that had been built up over the last year, during which the company had aborted several attempts to build the vastly ambitious site, and assembled a schedule, tasks, a feasible set of functionality, a general approach, a process to follow, and an architecture, and then set to work. I was joined in my development by two great developers, Michael Avila and Jeff Yamada, who saw the site through to the end, and who made it possible for me to take time to write the AS3 bible while working on the site. But before I get into thanking everyone…
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Link Dump Tuesday

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Some things that have blown my mind this week.
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New work by Robert Hodgin
Robert Hodgin has consistently made me stare agog at his graphics, and his latest round of processing work seems like a whole new level to me. At this point, his creations are full and fluid enough to act as the complete music video for a piece. See them in full on his blog or quickly on Vimeo.
MOTHERBOARD
I didn’t know it before, but Big Spaceship, pretty much the coolest guys there are, have an unfiltered blog at MOTHERBOARD, where they post unused graphics, odds and ends, personal projects, office photos, and the like. Those kids have some insane talent.
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Cyberphunk snow crash bitmaps. Awesome.

Doffy Blog Games

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Games, games, and more Flash games. The Japanese blog Doffy Blog has some incredibly innovative, technically impressive, not to mention fun Flash games. They’re pretty much ALL worth playing, but I’ll list them in order of favorites below.

  • Double Wire
    Double Wire

    a Spiderman-like game where you have to guide an apparently drunken figure using two wires that attach to the ceiling.

  • Slug Slayer
    Slug Slayer

    draw lines to direct the flow of salt. Melt as many slugs as possible. The simple AI is pretty impressive – I found myself setting up traps for the slugs.

  • Sand, sand, sand
    Sand, sand, sand

    Paint a blank canvas with a palette of particle elements to create a functioning ecosystem – then destroy it with fire and zombies and build it again. This is really more of a toy than a game.

  • Stick Remover
    Stick Remover

    Remove one stick at a time without letting the structure collapse.

  • Egg Way
    Egg Way

    Guide the egg into the skillet. Lulz!

  • Snow Cat
    Snow Cat

    Cats on sleds! Race your cat down the slope gaining points for landing sick maneuvers. As I look at this list, I can’t believe this one is last cause it’s still really fun.

Flash Game Roundup

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Procrastination

Here are a few great Flash games that have held my interest for more than a few minutes. Most links came from Game|Life (thanks Chris).

  • Winterbells – Very simple but well build game. Kind of a variant on the kick-up type games.
  • Flash Element TD – A Flash game based on a mod of Warcraft III? It’s a simple but addictive strategy game.
  • Four Second Firestorm – A WarioWare clone created by several different development teams. Very fun but I don’t know who still wants listen to that Eurotrash Club music.