Flash The Ripper

This is a game for you, perfectionist flexer nerds. Go to hackr challenge, and test yourself, whether you know your Flex good:

Maybe, you know your Flex too bad, and it’s worth learning more Flex in a week?

The Hackr Challenge is the production of our Indian brothers. Namaskar!

Truly open-sourced Flexers post their results here, in comments, ok?

When some of Soviet adults played big and serious Cold War Game, the happy children of U.S.S.R. were spending their time in different way. The culture of arcade machine games was blossoming in both city and country side. To be honest, not every village have got its electronic playground made on military factories, but there was pretty plenty of, and I was one of that happy children who has access.

That time has gone as soon as Iron Curtain fell and cheap game consoles (Mario, we remember you too) and then PCs became available to the regular families. But memory lives, and there are people in Moscow who does remember the old-school Soviet Arcade games, a big metal boxes with fancy, colorful reality inside, with controls and buttons, with a lot of fun. Alexander Stelmakh have founded the Museum, there are some details in the Wired’s Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War article.

Now, some of the Soviet Era Arcades are online and playable

And now anyone can visit the Museum of Soviet arcade machines, that just opened today! At the moment, only its Russian version is fully functional. But you can actually play the favorite arcade games of Soviet kids. We thank the Flash Developer of Artemy Lebedev Studio, Dmitry Bezverhii and Anton Sidorenko, we also want to respect the whole ArtLebedev Studio for this cool work. These games probably not for everyone, but here they are, virtual Arcade Mashines of the U.S.S.R. At present, only four have been created in flash, but I hope more to come:

• Play “Magistral“ (eng: “Thoroughfare”), read its translated description.
• Play “Morskoy Boy“ (eng: “Sea Battle”). This game seems to be a clone of “Midway’s Sea Raider”. Read translated description.
• Play “Gorodki“, old Russian Game, here’s translated description and article in Wikipedia.
• Play “Avtoralli“ (eng: “Rally”), read its translated description.

Also, there are a huge quantity of nice illustrations of the development process.

The question is, can these games be popular in wide auditory, except the fans of 8-bit art, old school and vintage junkies, and the ex-children of Soviet Union?

This is true: guys from FlaPhone is really making it possible and invite you to test it.

Official announcement: FlaPhone: Calls to Skype are now available.

Adobe Marketplace now promotes the FlaPhone AIR Application.

It seems to be a win start of SIP telephony. If only Adobe will make Mobile Flash Player which will be able to handle such calls, the world of mobile communications can change dramatically.

Kevin Hoyt from Adobe and Sam Stokes from Microsoft will have a debates on technologies, platforms and future today, 12 February 2009, 7:00 PM (PST/GMT +8), in the Bronco Student Center (Ursa Minor) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Microsoft and Adobe will demonstrate their evidences of domination. Adobe, who gave the world Photoshop, Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver and AfterEffects, engage developers to create cross-platform media prodigies online as well as a desktop applications, being able to run with or without the internet connection, which is possible with Adobe Integrated Runtime, or just AIR. Microsoft gives developers the opportunity of creation online applications which are full of media and animation with Silverlight and power of C#. Interesting.

Debates will be translated online in two options:

1. For users who have got a mid-bandwidth channel, higher quality.
2. For users with low-bandwidth, lower quality.

At the moment, a nice ballet is translated there, with interruptions sometimes.

By the way, Kevin Hoyt recently published an useful AIR application with sources, which itself is a set of 75 samples of JavaScript AIR applications with centralized launch interface. It worth looking inside, especially when you know how much power is in the JavaScript frameworks like ExtJS, which embraces the AIR too.

To add one item to the reading list: There’s a bunch of great articles from the ones for Beginners to Advanced ones like “AS3/Flex Modularization and Big Projects”, “Visualizing Relational Data Using Graph Theory”, “Developing a Mini-blog Using Flex and PHP” and much more it the free issue of Flash & Flex Developers’s Magazine. You can download it here: A Breath of Fresh AIR for Desktop Apps. There’s also an interview with Mike Chambers.

Learned from the blog of Lee Graham.

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To get it, look at the “Tanks“, the first game made on the Alternativa3D platform.

Fig. 1 (clickable to play). Tanks Battle. Anton Volkov of Altrernativa said “it’s just a prototype”

Also, Alternativa3D posted their detailed report about their trip to the Adobe MAX 2008 in Milano, including the second and third parts.

Now, anyone can try new (and really cool) Flash CS4 Professional in action: Download Flash CS4 Professional Trial. Also, following downloads now available:

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Contribute CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe SoundBooth CS4
• Adobe AfterEffects CS4
• Adobe Premiere CS4 Pro
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

Moreover, you can order the CS4 collections in sets on DVD:

• Creative Suite 4 Master Collection trial DVD for US$15.99
• Creative Suite 4 Design Premium trial DVD for US$10.99
• Creative Suite 4 Web Premium trial DVD for US$10.99.

Also, see the list of new Adobe CS4 products.

Update: due to work reason, author temporarily removed the video from net, but promised to put it back in a week. Please be patient.
Do you remember “Capital” music video? Meet the new work from its author. Aliaksei Tserakhau made animation for Lyapis Trubetskoy “Lights” song:

Lyapis Trubetskoy “Lights” from Aliaksei Tserakhau on Vimeo.

BTW, the “Lights” music video won the first prize in the nomination “Best Animation” of Portugal VIMUS International Music Video Festival. Its competitors were Chemical Brothers “Salmon dance” by Dom & Nic, Bjork, “Declare Independence” by Michele Gondri, and Temposhark “Blame” by Motomichi Nakamura.

Just after the nomination, Aliaksei promised to put the video online to let everybody see it, and today he did it.

Congratulations to brothers in arms!

Dear Adobe,

The most pleasure of my whole computer and web life I’ve got working with your products. Also, I made some money from it and growing. Also, I’ve got a second family, our user group where people do support each other, it’s growing too. Thank you for making all this smart and alive web better, thank you for putting your efforts, keeping high standards, being valiantly innovative and having balance between two abovementioned.

Thank you for the Flash Player 10.

Thank you for Creative Suite 4.

Thank you for being the what you is and who you are.

Holiday shutdown, lazybones!