My friend Nathanael at iPhoneGameKit.com is close to releasing a new starter kit and has asked for some pre-release feedback on what people want out of a Kit, and perhaps even out of life itself. You can give him some open-ended feedback if you want. Its only about 20 short questions, and for people who like surveys LIKE ME, its not long enough. CLICK HERE for more.
And Dallas has released his first app! Ahh, that first approval is so sweet. And this game looks great! Check it out in the App Store…
Its no secret I love these quick pointless polls here on WordPress. But I really am curious what my students/readers are up to this summer. I’m STILL training myself, but thats usually what I do in the summertime, although if it feels like I’m taking my sweet-ass time, I guess I kind of am. I heard someone say once, “if you want to really know the material, teach it”. Which is true, but I’d like to know the material a little bit more first. Anyway, what’re you doing?…
I got back in touch with my Papervision instructor Manu yesterday, and we are kicking around some ideas for new tutorials. He’s becoming a master of both Unity 3D and Maya, so given a choice between those two programs, which tutorials would you rather see…
Okay I just got one of the more enjoyable emails I’ve received in a while. Why? Because a lot of F-bombs were dropped, and none of them were directed at me. This was from a long time customer/ student, or cussstudent would be an appropriate term for him. Anyway, this guy, lets call him Tom (because thats his real name anyway), just had Flash CS4 crash on him for the upteenth time today, and he just wanted to voice his frustration to someone, and that was me. Which I don’t mind, because hey, I didn’t have any part in creating Flash, so he’s not mad at me. And like I said, emails with F-bombs are funny as long as the F-plane dropping them is not flying over my house. Anyway, his main point was whether or not he’s alone in having these problems with Flash crashing a lot. So lets find out with a poll.And please, only Flash CS4 users vote on this…
Tom, I already know will be voting for the “every 4th or 5th time he publishes” option. And I hate to admit, but thats probably where I’m at too. BUT, let me explain. I have a bad habit (which should be a good habit) of hot-keying Save, then hot-keying publish immediately afterwards. And thats a great way to get Flash to crash. Fortunately, it always saves fine. But this was never a problem in Flash 8, and it was rarely a problem in Flash CS3. The price ya pay for more cool stuff in the program I guess. Every crash is just another chance to brew another cup of coffee.
Alrighty, vote away if you have Flash CS4. Thanks!
