Keith Beltramini, Matt Robinson, and I joined forces for Virtual Entertainment class to work on this project together. Originally we were going to tie in Flash Media Server on this project and make a multiplayer game, but as I was the only developer on the team ( Keith made some awesome in-game graphics and animation and Matt designed a great user interface), developing the game and learning Flash Media Server at the same time proved to be a difficult task to accomplish within the 5-6 or so weeks that we were alotted to this project. Thus we were forced to simplify our project a little, and this is our product - a mini flash game that allows users to login, play, and save their best times. There’s a few things that need to be tweaked, but overall I’d say the project was a success; it’s a playable game and encourages return visits for users that are competitive (most gamers would be!). Check out Breakout!

This was my first project done in AS3, I’ve been putting off doing a project in AS3 because I wanted to wait and practice the AS2 OOP skills I developed at Rokkan over the summer. It was well worth the wait. It was a pretty smooth transition for the most part(and with the migration documentation)! The only things that drove me crazy were the syntax changes, small things such as the removal of the underscore from, say movieclip._x (it’s now just movieclip.x in AS3).

Anyway, about the project! When clicking on the project, it will create a movieclip that changes scale and color based on the audio input (be it from mic or the output of your sound card), and when clicked again, the movieclip is frozen and placed on the stage. Repeat the process until a desirable design is created, then right click > print to pdf or printer. If you print it to pdf, the shapes are still retained and you can open the pdf from illustrator to tinker with positioning and colors or add post generation effects.

In Jason Arena’s Virtual Entertainment lab I experimented with the Flash Drawing API, and we did it in AS3! Here’s the outcome: clickclick to change color, move your mouse to generate the curves

Also, I wanted to know how to draw a curved line that got wider so Jason helped me out, and we came up with this (yeah so we added some code for random color, so it can be updated later on with, perhaps, a color fade) : wave.swf ( linked externally because the wave keeps going and really starts chugging your browser if you leave it open)

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I was using easy inline swf but for some reason an error kept being returned, so I’ve switched to WP-SWFObject