Creating a MovieClip class for designers

Riding on what I wrote yesterday about using getter/setters for actual state control, here’s another example of how getter/setters can be used to control how your display assets work and make your life simpler. For a while, for me, it was quite common to employ Tweener’s ColorShortcuts if I wanted to, say, tween the brightness […]

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Using numeric values for state control

Something occurred to me one of these days. There’s something I’ve been doing for quite a while, but I’ve never discussed it with anybody else. I’m sure it all makes sense, somehow, or that there’s some better way to describe it – perhaps it has some fancy design pattern name – but for the sake […]

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The secrets of the universe lie between 0 and 1

Interesting link for people interested in interpolation and tweening, with Flash/ActionScript or otherwise: Interpolation Tricks by Jari Komppa. An award-winning Demo coder, he explains concepts related to programmatic animation from a different perspective – he never mentions Robert Penner’s easing equations, but at the same time he’s talking about the same thing, even if using […]

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Attending Campus Party

This week I’ll be working from Campus Party, so for the curious, I’ll be doing small twitter updates (mostly in Brazilian Portuguese) from there. I won’t do any kind of live coverage or public reporting or anything, since I’ll be there mostly to see friends (in the Games area) though, but if anyone else is […]

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The end of the end

When I went back to college, 4 years ago, most of my peers thought the decision was commendable but kind of crazy – I had already been working for 11 years in the interface development field, and people who hired me couldn’t care less if I had a degree or not; not that it wouldn’t […]

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