Whack! – A Starling Creation

The  Starling framework has brought about so much buzz since last week’s Adobe Max.  News surrounding the 2D Flash API now involves a neat game created called Whack!  Check out the game and there is also a great article on the ADC about how Whack! was put together.

If you’d like to learn how to use Starling to build a hardware accelerated 2D game in Flash, download the source from GitHub.

Gamegoo Improves Web Based Gaming with Adobe Flash Player 11

One of Gamegoo’s games, Qi-Xiong Hegemony, was developed with Flash Player 11 and has been a huge success China. Since it was released, it has brought in more than $780,000 each day and is now one of the top seven online games in China. To learn more about how Gamegoo used Adobe technologies to enhance the Web-based gaming experience, read more here.

The End for Adobe’s Multi-Screen Strategy?

The End for Adobe’s Multi-Screen Strategy? – This is a question that Tim Siglin asks in his recent article on the sudden death of the HP TouchPad and WebOS. Check out this response by Stefan Richter to Tim’s article.

Five Lies They Tell You in Software

The following are 5 things I wish someone had told me back in January of 2000.

Stage3D Max ’11 Sessions and Keynotes

For those of you guys who may have missed some of the Stage3D (Molehill) sessions at Adobe Max, Thibault Imbert has gathered them in his latest post.

At last year’s Max conference, a new Adobe technology called Adobe Wave was revealed that demonstrated how web content publishers could easily publish notification to their user’s desktops.  The Adobe Wave client is built on Adobe AIR allowing users to receive near real time notifications of new content, a new social interaction, or another notification that the publisher would like to let you know about.

Earlier this summer, this previewed technology was added to Adobe Labs for both users and publishers.  For those of you that have ever used Growl notifications for Mac OS X, the style of notifications is very similar.

The Potential of Adobe Wave

Personally, I feel that Adobe Wave has some legs and if widely adopted can provide a streamlined connection with the content publisher and user.  As web users, we are always looking for a way to stay on top of the web’s content.  Adobe Wave simply provides content publishers the right tool to do just that in almost real time.

Overall, I think this is an exciting technology and indicates that our needs of how we receive our content are evolving.  This is definitely something I will be keeping a close eye on.  Don’t forget to check out, the video overview for both publishers and consumers.  Also, for more information, visit Adobe Wave on Adobe Labs.

The day that many Flash Developers/Designers have been waiting for is finally approaching.  Well…not quite exactly.  Earlier this week at Adobe Max 2009, Adobe provided a sneek-peek to some of the new features that Flash CS5 will be shipping with.  The one feature that is getting many excited(and for good reason) is the ability to export your Flash applications into Apple iPhone applications.

Export to iPhone

Flash Professional CS5 will allow you to set your publish settings to “iPhone”. This will compile your movie as a native iPhone application that can be submitted to the Apple AppStore.

A New Door Has Opened

This opens a whole new door for Flash Developers/Designers. The ability to get your content displayed to an already trendmously large iPhone user base.  Hey, if this is the compromise of not having a Flash Player based within Safari on the iPhone, then I can definitely live with that.  Quite honestly, this might turn out to be even a better solution.

Additonal New Features Shipping With Flash CS5

Along with being able to create iPhone applications, Flash CS5 provides some other sorely needed features like:

• Improved ActionScript editor
• Code Snippets panel
• Flash Builder integration
• XML based FLA files

Resources:

Article: Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash

Aditya Bansodof of Adobe breaks down how this all came about.  He gives a breakdown on the technology behind this conversion and how to go about creating/submitting a Flash generated iPhone application.

Video: Building Applications For iPhone With Flash Professional CS5

Learn how Adobe is working to bring Adobe technologies out of the desktop and onto a the iPhone. Learn how Flash Professional and the Flash platform will add capabilities to help developers iPhone enable, test, and publish their content.

Current Flash Apps Already Available via the Apple App Store

Loving the hype!  You can already check out a handful of Flash generated iPhone applications via the Apple App Store.  The list of Applications include Chroma Circuit, Trading Stuff, Fickleblox, Just Letters, South Park, That Roach Game, and Red Hood. Enjoy!

For more additional resources and an update on release of Flash CS5, check out Flash CS5 on Adobe Labs.  Also, Flash CS5 beta is expected to be released prior to year’s end so be sure to sign up to get notified when that does happen.

With Adobe Max 2009 slowly approaching, there is nothing like a little promotional humor.  With all the personalities in the industry, it is always nice to catch them in a moment of humor.  Check out this promotional Adobe Max video starring Lee Brimelow, Phillip Kerman and the PR guy.  Funny!