This is what I’ve been working on for awhile. It’s a sick 2D space shooter that implements the digg api. You shoot at enemies that increase in difficulty as they increase in diggs, and you collect comments from the stories that are scanned for keywords to give you powerups. It’s pretty cool, you should play it!
Right now I’m blazin on puttin’ some high score tables in my game, and among the numerous asinine “Duplicate variable definition” warnings, ironically, Flash gave me the craziest most thoughtful compile warning I’ve ever seen. It made me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside:
“Appending text to a TextField using += is many times slower than using the TextField.appendText() method”
Damn Adobe, thanks for the tip. How many languages do you know of that do THAT?
For awhile now, the flash on my site has been broken. I was an idiot, and hardcoded in the url to my blog into the flash (instead of XMLing it like I did for all the projects and stuff), which at the time was hosted on the CoC. When I graduated, they deleted the hell out of it and that link 404ed to nowhere. I’ve had to have an ugly “blog link broken” disclaimer in the news section on my front page. Weak.
Now I know right now you’re thinking.. “Kurt u n00b, just change the .fla file and re-compile!!” You’d be right, that is, if I still had the source. When my laptop got stolen last november, the .fla went with it. Now you’re probably saying.. “pleez.. just haX0r the swf filez with a dec0mpiler!..” That’s actually a good idea and is exactly what I just did, once I found the right decompiler. It looks like Flasm is the perfect thing. It doesn’t try to re-build the entire .fla file so you can edit it in Flash, but decompiles the bytecode into readable text, so you can change variables and whatnot. Since all I needed to change was the text of the link, it took me about 30 seconds. I recommend this pimpass little command line program to anyone who lost their source and needs to made very minor changes that shouldn’t have been hardcoded anyway. Like me. No more broken links!
Awesome. I haven’t actually changed anything from my old school site except added a blog. This is my first post and I’m still tweaking the stylesheets to get it the way I want, so… yeah. Awesome. I get to blog again with no CoC douches telling that I’m cursing too much… fuck them. I’m out for now. www.kurtmargenau.com
