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New Fubra World (Flash + Isometric)

Steve Whiteley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:35:29 +0000

Over the past few months I have been working alongside Nick to produce a more exciting presentation of the sites owned and operated by Fubra Limited, in the form of Fubra World.

We first saw a glimpse of Fubra World at the end of 2007, after Nick put together a simple flash animation of a small town that he had sketched and added some interaction to.

At the end of 2008 it was decided that we would give it a bit of a facelift. The process involved nick re-drawing the town in isometric and myself learning ActionScript 3 to allow for a more interactive presentation.

After many hours spent – most of which outside working day – we finally have something to show for it.

So far it’s been a nice little project that has really allowed me to start getting into Flash and the development of a number of AS3 classes.

There is however still a lot of room for improvement, but it is a vast improvement on the previous version, take a look for yourself by browsing Fubra World now.

BailOutBrown Flash Game + Google Gadget

Steve Whiteley — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:25:48 +0000

Following up on the success of sockandawe.com the latest leader bashing game has now arrived with the release of bailoutbrown.com.

The format is the same, except instead of throwing shoes you are armed with a wad of cash! So even if you have no interest in the political side of things you can still have a bit of fun playing the game.

I’ve also written a new Google Gadget that displays the amount of cash thrown at Brown, assuming we are throwing wads of £200 at him that is.

Include this on your website using the following script:

<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.bailoutbrown.com/gadget/module.xml&synd=open&w=220&h=50&title=&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script>

AS3: Stop all sounds from playing

Steve Whiteley — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:46:25 +0000

If you ever need to stop all the sounds playing in flash using ActionScript3, you can do so using the following method.

First include the SoundMixer class:

import flash.media.SoundMixer;

Then to stop the sounds call the stopAll method:

SoundMixer.stopAll();

Flash AS3: Play sound from the library

Steve Whiteley — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:05:46 +0000

In order to play a sound from the library you can use the following simple AS3 code:

var snd:Beep = new Beep();
snd.play();

You must also assign your sound clip a class name by right clicking the sound in the library and checking the export for ActionScript option. In the example above the class name was set to “Beep”.

The default base class is set to “Sound”, allowing inheritance of methods from the Sound Class.