New Fubra World (Flash + Isometric)

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. Continue reading

BailOutBrown Flash Game + Google Gadget

BailOutBrown.com

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. Continue reading

Flash AS3: Play sound from the library

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.