In one of the largest announcements to hit the design community of late, Adobe has bought out Macromedia for a whopping $3.4 Billion. Thats not liquid, but using some sort of tax loopy stock exchange where current Macromedia stockholders would “own approximately 18 percent of the combined company”.

Macromedia’s site hosts a press release that contains the typical lawyerspeak and doubletalk that pervades every spin release and tries to make this aquisition seem more like a merger than what it really is: another loss for consumers.

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Nice digs eh? The humble yet effective headquarters of Giant3 - in all 360 degrees of its glory.

My desk is carefully guarded by a Starcraft Marine figure and convenient to the window for those afternoon daydreams.

This flash peice lets you pan around a 360 panorama as well as zooming in and out. The quality of the zoom depends on the resolution of the panorama shot. Use the arrow cursor to pan, the magnifier to zoom.

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This is a flash intro that was created for the 0verkill site that I hosted for a while. I think I remember using Swish to create the text explosion that occurs before our hero is generated out of common letters and punctuation. 0verkill is a 2D, ascii-drawn deathmatch game. It recreates the fast gameplay of quake or doom, and is playable in a telnet window… how cool is that?

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Based on an isometric flash engine by Eric Lin. Eric can code circles around me and I cannot take credit for his original idea and implementation. This is a work in progress as I attempt to make the grid user editable.

In other words, the user enters in the map matrix to control the map’s peaks and valleys. A possible engine for user editable maps for a Flash isometric, RTS-type game.

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A simple usage of the random function in flash. Originally coded in flash 4, and I believe the Actionscript function we used has since been depreciated in lieu of newer math functions and the Obect Orientation provided in newer versions of flash. For this reason no .Fla is provided.

Thanks to Jon Bardin , coder extrodinaire, for help on this so project long ago.

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