Last night, I participated in the Iron Flash competition at the LA Flash Users Group in Venice Beach. As in Iron Chef (my favourite television show), the participants are all skilled Flash users pitted against one another with the goal of creating something interesting within a strict time limit and featuring a common “ingredient”. In this case, the ingredient was a set of pictures of ‘pucks’, specifically, R. Blank’s dog Puck, Puck the faun, Puck from the Real World, and a hockey Puck. We had 3 hours to make something out of any or all of the pictures. My fellow competitors were Jon Ruppel of Hooky Interactive and Ben McMaster (also at Hooky) who both made some awesome stuff in such a short time. UPDATE: All of the entries have been posted on the LAFlash site.
It was a great experience, and not just because OMG I WON!!!
My entry was a video game featuring Puck the dog. I was considering other physics based games involving the hockey puck and the dog somehow. Then I thought of using the dog instead of the hockey puck and somehow that reminded me of the sport beloved in Canada, Curling! The scoring system is a little wonky but if I may say so, it’s not bad for 3 hours work. Here are screenshots (click to link to the game) along with the source code:
congrats! good work on the fly….
it would be cool to see some of the other entries, where they mostly game based, animations..?
Thanks Sam,
One of the other entries was a little toy where several dogs run around and follow a piece of bacon, the other was a papervision photo gallery. If the other guys post their entries, I’ll link to them.
yo mims: drop me a line so we can hook you up with your reward for flashing iron!
fyi, all winners posted here: http://richmediainstitute.com/ironflasher3
Way to go Iron Mims!
Robot IRON FLASH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3BtOug18ps