Top stories published by tiltdigital in 2008

During the final throws of a recent project, it occured to me that usual method of including various language specific unicode glyphs, had changed significantly in Flex / non-flash IDE developement.

James Hill in tiltdigital

May 26, 2008

Box2D

Well, having been looking at the full range of Physics engines available to us Flash Developers, a front runner seems to stand clear in the form of the AS3 port of the incredible Box2D by Erin Catto.

I’m currently working on a game for *** that requires a certain level of Physics mastery…

James Hill in tiltdigital

Nov 5, 2008

OpenSteer AS3 Port — Autonomous Boid Behavior

It’s fair to say that Artifical Intelligence for games is nothing new, but certainly with Flash in mind, AI is something that can be improved upon. Whilst doing some R&D one name kept on cropping up — Craig Reynolds.

James Hill in tiltdigital

Jun 22, 2008

Flash Player 10 Debug / Standalone

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE DEBUG / STANDALONE Flash 10 PLAYER:

Adobe should try to clear this up as it is quite confusing. It seems that the Flash 10 Player doesn’t come inside the updated Flex SDK packages. And their website only links to the…

James Hill in tiltdigital

Apr 18, 2008

Installing Ant in Flex Builder 3

Until Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone includes Ant built in you will have to install it separately. For those that are not familiar with Eclipse, this can be tricky to install.The following is the revised steps for Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone.

James Hill in tiltdigital

Nov 27, 2008

PureMVC Fabrication Utility released

Having used the PureMVC framework extensively in the past and been frustrated by the convolutedness of setting your application up, I was pleased to see the release of a utility to simplify many of the most laborious tasks in PureMVC, whilst reducing the excessive…

James Hill in tiltdigital

Oct 15, 2008

Roxik Ecodazoo — Awesome!

[![](http://blog.tiltdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/roxik2-300x155.jpg “roxik2”)](http://ecodazoo.com/)I know this has now been around for a while, but I thought I’d pop it up as much for my reference as anyone who hasn’t seen this as yet.[Roxik](http://roxik.com/) has put…

James Hill in tiltdigital

Oct 28, 2008

St Mary’s Ghost Spooky Viral, Er….what the hell?!

Sony Ericsson have just released for Halloween a super scary viral to promote their new W595.

They called on yours truly to put the thing together.

Check it out and pass it on to your mates!

James Hill in tiltdigital

Nov 3, 2008

Flash 10 : SaveBitmap Class

One of the things that really annoyed me about pre-Flash Player 10 AS3, was the security sandbox restrictions of accessing the local file system using FileReference. To load an image into an application for example, meant bouncing it’s byteArray off a server-side script and back…

James Hill in tiltdigital

Oct 19, 2008

SWFObject add-on: Size limiting for full window flash

On a recent flash project I stumbled upon the following problem. When creating full-window flash, having set stage dimensions to 100% in SWFObject, users with small screens were unable to see content positioned off screen. On a standard…

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