Using matrix style grids, I experiment with creating grid based transition effects that emanate from the center of the screen.

This article is part of a multi-part series on using FLEX builder for banner development. The article here represents a starting point for developing standard flash media with FLEX. In future articles we will look into rich media development, and how to integrate 3rd party api’s such as Doubleclick or Pointroll into your FLEX projects.

About a year ago, our company decided to come up with a game that would utilize a highly stylized 3D city neighborhood as the main “menu” for the game. In a nutshell, just a couple of semitransparent 3D boxes. I figured, rather than looking into an existing Flash 3D engine, I can code it myself.

Earlier this year Grant Skinner organized coding competition. The task was particularly simple: to code something cool in ActionScript using at most 140 characters (whence the name, tweetcoding). As everybody else, let me talk about my submissions a little bit, too.

Geo Trail is a spatial cognition game where the objective is to navigate a block across a gridded game board in a way that it will fall through a specified hole in the game board.