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My FGS 2012 talk on the future of Flash, what developers can do about it, and what I’m doing personally is up! View recording of “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)” online now! View the slides for “It’s the end of the world as we know it …
I will be presenting “It’s The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” at the Flash Gaming Summit 2012. My session is at 3pm – be sure to come! I’ll be talking about the future of the Flash platform, how to future-proof yourself against upcoming technology …
I got fed up one day, and wrote a simple bitmap font renderer, BMFontRenderer. It parses bitmap font data from a generator like BMFont or Hiero (link on middle right of sidebar) and renders text of your choosing to a BitmapData. BMFontRenderer is under the MIT license, so you can use it as you …
4 YEARS AGO – “A DECLINING ASSET” I’m working at a technology startup and today I am talking to one of the founders. He looks at me and says, “Our main product is a declining asset.“ This is the product that generates 90% of our revenue and pays both of our …
I wrote some game reviews/articles a while ago in collaboration with Blockland creator Eric Hartman. All 12 are now online again, thanks to Eric. I’m especially proud of the history of every MAME-supported baseball game from 1976-1985, the article we did for GameDev.net titled Learning from …
UPDATE: The talk is now available on Adobe TV! The slides are available, too. You can find the code for the talk at https://github.com/PushButtonLabs/PushButtonEngine/tree/PBE2. They are fully explained via dokko, a literate code documentation tool. You can read the docs online at …
One of my posts on the Flash display list was quoted recently in a post by Amos Laber on his excellent blog. He said: So developers like Ben Garney are opting to write their own renderers in order to gain better performance, but that is not an ideal long term solution. A much better one [...]
During my recent vacation in Japan, I kept a photoblog. It’s at http://bengarney.tumblr.com/. You can also browse a full photo set on the photo set on Flickr.
I asked… I got some good answers back and wanted to save them: On my todo list: Try processing!
What are you doing next week? Here is what is on my agenda: On Sunday, I will be at the Flash Gaming Summit. This year is not to be missed; Adobe is going to be announcing some great news, adding a whole new dimension to the capabilities of the Flash Player. As an advisor to [...]
Building great mobile tech. Formerly of PushButtonLabs, GarageGames. Co-author: Video Game Optimization. http://www.bengarney.com
C trick of the day: Use printf("%*sText", tabDepth*3, " "); instead of concatenating " " to indent textual output.@bengarney
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