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Playing Around with Flex

Tutorial from Adobe website that illustrates how Flex handles server side communication.
Tutorial from Adobe website that shows how Flex can be used with third party APIs.
Tutorial on the basics of building a Flash game using Flex.
Experiments utilizing techniques from Flex Fighter Tutorial

Adobe Flex, Amazon S3, and Bears! Oh my!

Server side PHP script used to upload files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket
Example of how to use the Amazon S3 PHP script in conjunction with Flex to upload to an S3 bucket. (Links to SVN)

Theater.app Project

  • Theater.app is an Adobe Flex web app that allows theater students to manipulate and experiment with the elements of theater (lights, sounds, costumes, sets).
  • The project proposal can be found here
  • Week One Build Bonham
  • Week Two Build Jones
  • Week Three Build Plant
  • Release Build Page
  • Post Release Build Write Up can be found here

Wicked Cool Game Project

  • Potential Game Concepts
    • Side Scrolling Shooter - Where students destroy buildings through out a level and are awarded with video clips form popular movies after completing the level.
    • Music Jukebox - Students can click images of popular artist and trigger a video of that artist performing a popular song.
    • Awesome Ball clone - Click a button cause the ball to bounce off what ever boundary the ball is nearest.
    • Scripted Bejeweled - Students click a button and the patterns are selected and removed from the screen with cool lights and sounds.
    • Movie Jukebox - Students click a button and a movie trailer is retrieved from Apple Trailers.
  • The project proposal can be found here
  • Week One Build Codename: Okay
  • Week Two Build Codename: Alright
  • Week Three Build (HTML) Codename: Awesome
  • Week Three Build (SWF) Codename: Awesome