Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Central: Dungeons & Dragons Character Creator

    I’ll be discussing this application as well as 2 others tomorrow night at my presentation (Building Flash and Central Applications). If you cannot make it, I’ll be recording it for later viewing.

    This is a developer beta release, and is strictly meant for developers to tear apart the code and learn from it. However, I’d still love to hear ideas or any other comments.

    Special thanks to Geoffrey Williams for his Central AS2 classes, and to Arul for his ActionScript 2.0 code highlighter service.

    App | Help | How It’s Made

    …I wish I was presenting this in Australia, too… I miss you guyz and galz!!!

  • AS1 addProperty Weirdness: 2nd parameter is a must

    Spent the last 3 hours debugging an issue with a few of components that I’m hastily converting from AS2 to AS1. I have to manually use addProperty since AS1 does not support the AS2 way of implementing getters and setters.

    I found that if you only define a get method, for AS1 you have to type in null for the setter, even if you don’t want one. This explicitly tells Flash you dont’ want one. If you type in nothing, I think Flash assumes it’s an empty string or something… at any rate, read-only getter variables set this way must have null typed in the second parameter instead of omitted, or you’ll get the wrong value when you trace it out.

  • Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

    It seems to me, this game is merely capitalizing on the popularity of the original, and taking advantage of a better graphics engine for re-packaging. Now, I admit that the speed at which a game is created vs. evolution of gaming technology, I’d be surprised why I haven’t seen more of this. It happens all over the Gameboy market in that games that were for Nintendo were re-packaged for the Gameboy, and then Super Nintendo for the Gameboy Advance, etc.

    Personally, I’d prefer they just go make the new one instead of re-coding the old one; but I realize there is money to made, and many who have never played the game would love to see it with the updated graphical engine. I think this a way to make more money off of the brand while they bide their time making the updated one for the new Playstation. Course, they is relative, because whoever made the original could of sold the rights similiar to how Max Payne 2 went down.

    …at any rate, even though I don’t agree with the execution… I’ll still buy the damn thing.

    <a href=”http://www.konamijpn.com/products/mgs_tts/english/index.html”>Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes</a>

  • My Dad’s Paris

    Your Friday OT, via my dad.

    My dad (and I) recently lost his dog to old age, a golden retriever named “Sandy”. Naturally, he just bought a new golden retriever puppy. Her name’s “Paris” after <a href=”http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_998.html”>Paris Hilton</a>.

    He relishes this summer where he can parade her down the Ocean City (Maryland) boardwalk, using her as the ultimate chick magnet. Always da playa, playa.

    The Cute Paris

    <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/paris oo5.jpg”><img src=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/paris oo5.jpg” width=”160″ height=”120″ alt=”Paris the Golden Retriever Puppy”/></a>