Category Archives: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Adobe MAX 2010

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Mims H Wright

Many of you are just arriving in my beautiful sunny city at this very moment for Adobe Max. I hope to see you there! Here’s what I’m going to look like! Here’s a list of places close to downtown that … Continue reading →

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Killing 3D Transforms

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Roger Braunstein

Here’s a quick tip. If you’ve ever dealt with 3D in Flash Player 10+ you’ll know that DisplayObjects in 3D in Flash Player are bitmap-cached; only the bitmap representation is transformed in 3D. Recently I was working on a site … 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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IDisplayObject? – Getting around the lack of an interface for the DisplayObject in Flash

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Mims H Wright

Interfaces are amazing things. When I was young and green, I didn’t understand their purpose, but after working with them for a while, I will defend their use to the end. I try to create lots of interfaces early on … Continue reading →

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The art of the conference

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Mims H Wright

I’ve just wrapped up my third GDC conference. I learned loads from it and feel incredibly rejuvenated creatively! But before I talk about what I learned there, I wanted to take a moment to share some helpful guiding principles for … Continue reading →

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