Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Spoon in 2 Sentences

    SpoonSpoon is a fork of the Adobe Flex SDK. Goals are to capitalize on community submissions, provide leadership around the process, and ensure feature parity as new Adobe Flex SDK’s are released.

    Learn more about Spoon.

  • Corona Game Example: Balloon Pop

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    Here’s a simple, unfinished, Corona game. It shows how to:

    • use a sprite sheet for animation
    • use tweening to move things
    • play audio
    • handle touch events

    Why

    As a Flex and Flash Architect, you’re probably wondering why I’m even bothering with Lua, specifically Corona.  A few reasons.

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  • Lua for ActionScript Developers: Crash Course

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    Preface

    I needed a break from Flex for mobile, and wanted to see if there were any other good application frameworks that allowed you to deploy to multiple devices beyond Adobe AIR. Tony Lukasavage had written about a few recently, and Matt Guest had written about his quick experience using Corona for games based on the buzz around Robert Nay, the 14 year old who knocked Angry Birds out of the top mobile game slot via Bubble Ball.

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  • JSFL Script to Ensure Actual ActionScript Classes Exist for Symbols

    One way to design or skin ActionScript 3 projects is using the Flash IDE for graphical assets.  You export your FLA as an SWC, and you can utilize those assets in your AS3 and/or Flex project.  Flash CS3/CS4/CS5 have the ability to link to an ActionScript 3 class that represents the code behind the Symbol.  If the Flash IDE doesn’t find the class in its source paths, it’ll create one for you.

    The downside is, when you compile, you do not get errors if the Flash IDE didn’t find a class for a particular Symbol that’s set to have one.  Maybe you mis-typed the package path or class name.  Maybe you forgot to set the class path for the FLA.  Maybe the FLA is in the wrong place.  Whatever the reason, your code “won’t work” and you won’t know why.  You may not get code hints in Flash Builder / FDT / IntelliJ, and certain other dependencies may be missing as well and you’ll be left wondering why.

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