May 24, 2006

Killer Bees game

Filed under: Uncategorized — Steve @ 8:54 AM

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/elearning/experts/elat/about/stevencarpenter/degree/345is/killerbees.exe

The Killer Bees game we threw together for 345IS seems to be popular with the people on our module:

Great game, I like the way the amount of bees gets bigger and bigger, it just gets mental!
thats really cool man! nice game
so addictive keep playing it whilst revising – best score i got was 559.
I got 537, I believe there is some code to remove the cursor on
gamesdevlopers.net (The forum Andreas kept pointing us too!)… I was
wondering how you got the enemy timing the way you did as well, or do
they just respawn a long distance offstage!! It would be great to see
the source code!
Heres a half decent effort :P This game is now a fundamental part of
this morning revision!
ok back to doing revision, ive played too much because i just pulled out a 1100 point single player score on a laptop with a trackpad!
Whoever got the 1100 score is mad, i did something like 480. Great, great game, amazing stuff. I bet it will be a proud addition to your portfolio. You may wanna share it with the guys over at www.gamesdevelopers.net/forum . I am sure they will love it too.

It’s not that great, but the last comment is from our lecturer Andreas, so hopefully that means we’ll be getting a decent mark :–)

May 15, 2006

Red5: open–source RTMP

Filed under: Flash — Steve @ 12:27 PM

Writing about web page http://www.osflash.org/red5/roadmap

More info on Red5: if the project follows the roadmap closely, it looks viable as an alternative to FMS and worth a look once v0.5 is released:

Red5 is a Spring based Java implementation of an RTMP and AMF server for Adobe Flash clients. It offers the ability to stream audio and video, integrate with existing software systems and act as a one stop shop for all Flash server–side needs.

It’s still in a relatively early stage of development (current version is 0.4), but the development team appears to be committed and moving quickly. Although the app is aimed at Win platforms, various people are deploying onto Linux using MINA.

…it is very easy to adapt it to run in a Linux box because is implemented in Java using Spring framework

Brian Lesser notes:

The server has a very different server API than FMS. For example instead of application instances Red5 has scopes. If all goes well with the project, when Red5 reaches its 1.0 release, it will have a much more open server–side environment than FMS. For example it will have its own Flash Remoting gateway that you can used to inject data directly into a running Scope (application instance) and if you can code in Java you can do pretty much anything with the server – including crash it regularly if you’re aren’t careful! We’ll see if and when Adobe releases a Java SDK for FMS how easy it is to inject data from other servers using Adobe’s SDK. We’ll also have to wait and see if the new On2 live SDK can push VP6 encoded video through Red5.

OK, so a bit more work to deploy and write apps, but only for us non–native Java coders. AS3 is a big shift away from ‘simple scripting’ anyway, so consider it as practice :–)

There’s enough to go on for now though, at least in terms of producing some simple demos. While Adobe works on its own FLV to MP3 encoder, it’s apparently already possible to realtime encode to MP3 using FLV2MP3; although I’ve not found any specific info on using Red5 for this it looks possible.

The Red5 blog now has a few examples and video tutorials on setting up and using Eclipse to create simple apps.