Monthly Archives: May 2009
Violet, a Different Interactive Fiction Game
This week’s independent game is not a Flash game per se, but there is a Flash client to easily play it. “Violet” is the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition winner and with reason. I have been an interactive fiction fan for a long time, and really appreciate the original ideas that can be found in many [...]
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Spatial Augmented Reality Gives a Different View on Reality
A few months ago, a little show-reel by Easyweb.fr made the rounds on the net. It showed that new media doesn’t have to be on the Internet or even on your screen. They use buildings as canvasses. Buildings seem to come to life as bricks move around on the wall and strange creatures lurk behind [...]
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Something Amiss, Oldskool Point-and-Click Adventure
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be featuring a bunch of Flash games that have been in my backlog for a long time now. As some of you might know already, I am a great admirer of the new wave of almost-professional free games. They are a great way to experiment with new media and [...]
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Valid (X)HTML Markup in 6 Steps, Like Correct Spelling
The last hour, I’ve been busy trying to get my site’s markup valid. The frontpage now validates, but there’s till work to be done to the other pages. So after reading Dennis Forbes’ post, I noticed I’ve been running for the past year or so with invalid markup and nobody ever pointed that out. One [...]
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OCRemix remixes your favorite game soundtrack
It’s a great thing what fans can do. Take for instance OverClocked ReMix, a community site where every one can upload their remixed game soundtrack. At first, the site will look a bit unstructured, but everything has its place. If you’re a first time visitor, I would suggest you head straight to the torrents section [...]
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Sandy 3D Tutorial: Getting Started with Sandy and FlashDevelop
Over the last year or two, developing 3D applications in Flash has become increasingly feasible, for almost any ActionScript developers. A number of open source 3D engines, like Sandy 3D, have popped up. Combined with the incredible FlashDevelop, any one can get started, right away. However, because FlashDevelop does not have the authoring tools of [...]
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Sonny 2, a Free RPG That Is Worth Playing