FLASH

by Sam Keene Interactive Designer Organic computation

The play between code and nature is something that I’m interested in exploring in my work. How does the natural world affect the artificial and when the two join, will we know?

Filed under: flash, physics, creative

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Introducing DTDBug v1.0

We're sharing one of the tools we've written for simple remote debugging of Flash. We hope you like it!

Filed under: flash, dtdigital

by Isaac Williams Interaction Developer Prototyping awesome games

Game design is something of a dark art. It's a new field, and crosses a lot of lines between established disciplines. While there are many suggested processes to use when thinking about game design, it is still very much an art, not a science. Here's the process we use to generate fun ideas, and see if they work.

Filed under: flash, games, physics

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Game design: Making people feel good

If you were playing AFL, would kicking a ball between sticks be as much fun if the crowd didn't cheer afterwards? Or if the crowd didn't exist in the first place?

Filed under: flash, games

by Brenton Crowley Interaction Developer 3D paper tech demo

We’ve been developing a new 3D catalogue viewer and needed a quick proof-of-concept to make sure the idea was feasible.

Filed under: flash

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Force directed automatic graph layout

God that sounds boring. But actually, it's pretty cool :D

A common problem is wanting to make things look pretty. Often you have a diagram of some kind that you'd like to layout automatically. If the diagram is made up of nodes connected by lines, you can do it automatically using some physics trickery.

Filed under: flash, physics

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director OK, I've invented a revolutionary new interface...

... I call it the soccer ball slider ;) The idea was to make an interface for browsing linear content that was minimal (in terms of controls) but fun, unique and which also allowed subtle control.

Filed under: flash

by Brenton Crowley Interaction Developer 3D football freekick game with physics

We've been developing a freekick game in flash that utilises the best of Papervision and JiglibFlash.

Filed under: flash, games, physics

by Jarrod Cope Senior Interaction Developer Head tracking in Flash

Using the actionscript port of OpenCV, we can now do face detection in Flash.

Filed under: flash, webcams

by Ollie Campbell Interactive Director Fractal trees in Box2D

Most of the experiments I make these days have something to do with either fractals or Box2D, so I had this brilliant thought on the weekend ... how about fractal trees in Box2D! Ok, maybe it's not that brilliant.

Filed under: flash, physics