Archive for the ‘Making Stuff’ Category

i write a game?

Monday, June 14th, 2010

that will run on everything

i have digested 50% of the functionality and  30% of  the  interface in unity.  I will need some time to decide the avenue of  avatar source development. Scripting and rag doll or canned scripts and animated sequences which tend to be more artist friendly.

DOE Screws Americans

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

So you want to use these cool new LED low energy use lights. If you go to the US Gov’s site, they ( even if you click on their solid state / LED section ) push GE compact florescent bulbs to the consumer.

Bad Move DOE

What is the real debate on App and Adob

Friday, April 30th, 2010

lol – so out of search range title -

Where is any flash app running on a smartphone – NOT VIDEO but a full function service.

If some one can show me – http://dauz.com/river on a smart phone then Adobes whine is news.

thank you

Yes ADOBE we love Bloatware

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Grumpy Old Man

Dang, its like a madd dog fight. Adobe is the company that is whining about a product they dont yet have to work on devices that exisit.

All apple is saying is let us see it working.

When i have to throttle down calls to not suck memory on every cross platform flash ting i  make, how can i say Jobs is full of shit.

SWF is not OPEN source , this is kind of blurred by adobe and the macromedia guy that says he made flash, there history and wikIpedia have no mention of bundles and file formats. Let alone what the default setting are for common functions.

We are not talking about products that make direct things when we talk about Flash, whats funny is how i was laughed at cause i called actionscript one an API for web buttons ( still have working DCRs on the web today ).

Apple is not denying the Flash application on its devices but its output format on mobile devices only.

Apple is open… when you buy a Mac from day one you can be a developer – all the tools come with the machine at no extra cost but the time it takes to install them.

Adobe does the Update dance with some of the worst installers on the planet. And can be called Bloatware as much as Windows could.

It’s a simple business statement to make , Flash does not work on mobile devices ( that’s Flash the application builder not flash the video player ) why would one jump on the band wagon?

I am Geeky

Friday, March 26th, 2010


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I use a lot of flash for an apple fanboy

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Game Code Examples

Nav hot spot is a 40 x 40 isometric grid built on the fly in AS from 2  base button objects.

http://www.dauz.com/thebase/

Movement is due to just moving the mouse inside the hotspot

http://www.dauz.com/river/
movement is achieved via mouse clicks inside the hot spot

Same base map mover – all artwork and code by me.

MSM love Fat Bald old white men

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The MSM is all over the hype from Chaney and now Ballmer, 2 people that love to talk out of there asses.
During theIPad week – I  found Cnet and PC  World to be about 20% good stuff about Ipad and 80% the Ipad is evil.

Now its all about how MS is in the game and only need to rip off IphoneOS and Andriod a little to jump back.

Thank goodness for even handed reporting.

Yes I hated Buzz

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Now hate and anger are 2 different things, lots of the buzz quotes i read i took to heart. i thought i was a techie but if being a tech geek means touting vaperware over real usable items as if your some expert then ill be just an old person instead.

Teaching people to use software you wrote is very different then growing up with the software as second nature. These tech folks do not have much respect for those that came before them , now maybe i just followed the idiots and there is real conversation going on in buzz but at this point it does not matter, its not a useful tool for me.

So when i kept getting chewed on just because i said the Ipad is not a device for the technology set, i was called many things including stupid. Its still going on but i dont see it as i switched off buzz completely.

Fan Boy of the the other guys lawn

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Maybe its the print graphic design background, but to me unless it’s a fine arts project im doing myself only, its the other guys idea thats important.

The person or corporation that employs u sets their standards which its then up to you to meet. If they have all windows machines you try to enjoy working with Windows, if the have Nix flavors you use those.

I have been carrying my office on my back for 11 years and No one has complained that there pretty asp/.net  web site has 100% mac created graphics. Most dont notice or care.

Good work and especially meeting deadlines is way more important then a piece of hardware.

Cut it Out Adobe – Alliare claims he made ActionScript

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Alliare did not make flash for macromedia/adobe
these folks did –

I have flash animations with functionality that were up on the web 2 years before this guy came into the picture. Stop the tit for tat crap.

With the first self hosted DCR docs on the web and much flash development, I luv flash as a API over the clunky director API. But I also use many other tools to create content for clients and myself.

From a Apple point of view – Jobs is right most Flash apps suck – they suck in poor loading screens and can suck memory when poorly constructed. With an plugin or player it is or it is not. There is NO middle ground of some flash and new users hate crashed PCs or locked screens.

I have used Shockwave and now flash to create cross-platform applets because i know the limitation s of each platform (Mac-Windows-Web) not because of the high end  options these platforms provide.

From the Aukaurant CDRom(90s) to my Piece on TaintedMedia(2008) the main rule of thumb has been dont use OS specific API calls – (.net anyone) and it just works.

For Alliare to write a several hundred word screed about how he made Flash what it is and bla bla bla. iS just a waste of text space.