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I'll be there, first time for me. Slightly over excited

Hey Handcircus, Rolando just went onto the TUAW page and RSS feed, that's some nice coverage for you :)

http://www.tuaw.com/


Ah yeah - saw that :) Its been on Gizmodo too, but a lot of people have been saying its a loco-roco clone. Think I'd better release another vid without so many cuts to ...

hahakid wrote:hey Simon, Rolando is looking great


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Hey Andreas. Cheers Off the back of This Happened, Rolando's in this months Edge - thanks again for the invite

gravy wrote:That looks awesome How did you make the movie?

Thanks! At the moment its a real pain you can't capture video from the device, so I can't show any of the accelerometer features. I'm using Screenium to capture from the Simulator - http://www.synium.de/products/screenium/index.html

So far found it pretty good. Its free to get going with the SDK (provided you have a mac, obviously) and only 60-ish quid to get it running on the device. Approvals to the program seem a little slow and random but theres a lot of free resources from Apple.

Objective-C was a new one, but if you've ...

hope this isn't too much of a shameless plug (especially as I haven't been round here much lately) :oops: but just released the trailer for the iPhone/iPod touch game I've been working on :)

http://www.rolandogame.com/

Can't wait to see what else is going to get announced over the next couple of ...

Smultron is pretty good - http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

For your angle problem, just use Math.atan2(dy,dx). This should hopefully sort out that issue (tho you might need to append Math.PI/2 to get the result you are looking for)

hth
simon

Flash 8 added much more sophisticated bitmap control (caching bitmap renders of complex vector shapes, blitting rectangles, displacement map filters etc, so you get much better flexibility and speed.

Flash 9 adds a new virtual machine thats a lot faster (JIT supposedly but still not close to the ...

if you have it as an event on the frame, could you create multiple frames, with a different volume for each, ie sound1volume1, sound1volume2, sound1volume3 etc? Then you just gotoAndStop("soundvolume2") to get that volume.

I thought flash 5 had the sound object, for using with attachSound?

arron wrote: Very interesting. Some of your other entries were well worth a read as well (to the video-game oriented scientific mind that I seem to have.. ), so thanks for that!

Thanks arron, glad you liked it/them

Reading the notes it sound great.

Particularly about "education teaching us what we cant do".

Yeah - it sounded very much from the heart, he really does believe that such games and interactive software will help kids develop skills and new perspectives and give people the opportunity to fulfil ...

Anyone else go to this last night? Really enjoyed it.

If anyones interested, I wrote a brief write up here:

http://www.handcircus.com/2006/08/30/wi ... ing-bafta/

I think the fact that it needs its own plugin is a *huge* barrier to it growing. It will be nowhere near as viral.

Soon as they upgrade to Flash 8 Video (VP6) with a reasonable, the horrible quality of youtube should go away.

Downloading video is a nice touch. I really like the way google video do ...

Its lovely, can't recommend it enough. I've only used it one proper project so far, called hippo lake: http://www.handcircus.com/hippo-lake/ and that was a pleasant experience.

Its very fast, seems to have great exporters for most DCC packages (Maya, Max, XSI, Blender) and supports a lot of ...