From the guy who brought you Line Rider, here comes Line Golfer. The game must be laced with crack cocaine because I couldn’t stop playing with it. At Wrigley’s CandyStand you can play other courses others have drawn or draw your own and submit it for consideration. The concept of the game incorporates multiple levels of genius; the simplicity, allowing others to build the courses for you, the addictiveness of it… don’t get me started. The game is built using APE, the flash Physics engine written by Alec Cove from what I understand. Very kool. It’s great to see people build on Flash technology that is out there. I guess that is why some thing like this is so inspiring for me. Let me know what you think.

I remember back in the days of Flash 5 and 6 where you had to write everything from scratch. Things like easing (Tweening) and physics all needed to be coded and modified by hand. Usually you would need to look at someone else’s source files, gut out what you think you needed and change the code to fit your needs. Not that we still don’t do that now to an extent. Back then there were no classes as we know of them today, just a bunch of functions (prototypes) in the first frame of your movie that you would call globally. If you were really fancy you would have an external AS file that would get included. I remember in Flash 7 it being so hard to get out of the old practices and start working more Object Oriented with true classes. Thank God that with the maturity of ActionScript the options are wide open. Developers build for reusability and even create API’s that facillitate life. PaperVision, APE, Box2D, Caurina Tweener… imagine where we would be if these technologies weren’t out there for us to use. This is only my take on it, others I’m sure had different experiences. I can only speak for myself. Stay tuned, I have more physics tutorials coming!

I miss experimenting with Flash. I’m always working on projects and other stuff that needs to get done. I am going to make it a point to start fiddling with some of the new physics Technologies that are out. I have some ideas that could be pretty kool. WOW and APE, here I come!

Personal Task Manager
This is a software that we are testing out at work to log our actual productivity. It asks you what project you are currently working on every predetermined interval. We just started using it and it seems pretty detailed and helpful. I’ll document my experience. If you want to try it out download it here:
Software download
IF you don’t have the .net 2.0 framework installed, download and install from here:
.net 2.0 framework download

The freaking Wii!!!! I couldn’t believe this when I saw it. The way the depth of field was being manipulated, I thought I was looking at some crazy hologram, but kooler. This could really make the user feel like they are emmerced in the experience. Hooking up the infrared lights in place of the LED lights on the glasses, genius! Imagine what could be done with this technology combining Flash and Papervison. This is the type of stuff that makes me wish I could spend the majority of my day doing lab work. His demo was not done in Flash by the way.