PixelBlitz updates and more
PixelBlitz welcomes Richard Davey
It has been a while since I have made a post. I have been really busy at work and I have been trying to get a new game going. Richard Davey over at PhotonStorm has been adding some really cool stuff to PixelBltz. He has also created a permanent home for PB as well, www.pixelblitz.org. I am very excited to have another person working on this with me and am really starting to feel like this could turn out to be pretty big. I hope to have an updated zip of the project soon.
Flash CS4
Adobe made their official announcement for CS4 yesterday. I have already seen a very mixed opinion on Flash CS4. I honestly am excited about it. Being an artist and a developer, I can still definitely appreciate features such as bones, and object-based animation. Flash did start as an animation package, so it is nice to see adobe going back to Flash’s “roots” a little bit. On the design side, one thing I would love to see more than anything is an improved renderer. Now I know that is no small task, but in my opinion it is necessary. Unfortunately, it is one those features that won’t really sell a new release. The current renderer does OK in most situations, but there are many times when I see my art get jaggy, blurry, or distorted. I am also excited to start playing with PixelBender. I know it has been around for a little while, but I have been waiting for the official release to start learning it.
Another good looking mobile OS with no sign of Flash
This is starting to really bother me. Google released their Android mobile OS this week and no Flash. With the iphone it was easy to blame Apple for a flash-less mobile experience, but who do we blame now? I just wish Adobe would start gaining some ground for us in the mobile market. I have seen many iphone apps making absurd amounts of money and can only imagine the possibilities when we finally get our shot.
-Norm
September 24th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
In all honesty i think adobe has lost the plot on flash what started out as a brilliant design tool has evolved into a robust programming tool, which can’t be used to the full extend by the majority of their own cusotmers, and it’s becuase of this that third party flash design tools such as htp://www.amarasoftware.com are becoming more popular.
I myself am looking at silverlight and CSS more and more
September 30th, 2008 at 6:42 am
I’m quite glad Flash isn’t on the iPhone, 95% of flash is horribly programmed rubbish and runs terribly, native apps beat anything flash hands down. No idea why Adobe is wasting time with all that Air nonsense, I’d never install an Air app
September 30th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Simon, I would have to disagree with you on that comment. You cannot judge a platform by it’s worst work. I am very confident that there are tons of native apps that completely suck and are far worse than some of the flash content. The fact is native apps must get approved, so of course the ones that were approved are good, but no one will ever know about the 90% of disapproved apps.