Since today I’ll be working on a small one week project, something like a workshop. I’d be glad to prepare an application for realtime visualization of audio.
I love this kind of projects: you got a limited time – 7 days should be enough to prepare a small application. Game, audio or video stuff, you name it. When you work alone, you could manage your time more precisely, there’s no one who tells you what to do and what you should avoid. It’s solely your work and you can do whatever you want to – but it has to be done before the deadline, which can’t be moved in any circumstances.
This time I’ll prepare a small audio application. No business plan, no desires to sell it. No visible sight of making money of it. Just simple fun. This app was on paper for too long and this contest made me start it.
The app will mix samples in a never-ending stream of blabs. Everything will be mixed randomly from predefined settings, adjustable by you. And most importantly you’ll be able to make your very own generator by recording audio from your computer’s Line In or Microphone input.
I want to show you some of technologies I developed during last few years. GUI widgets with loadable skins, audio processing (I made few multitrack sequencers and mixers), a slice of 3D rendering. All Model-View-Controller via PureMVC.
I want to use these technologies if you’re interested to know:
- Air 2.0 beta
- Ogg Vorbis / Alchemy
- PureMVC
- Away3D Lite
- PopForge
- BulkLoader
- DestroyToday’s Scale9Bitmap (slightly changed by me)
- Greensock TweenMax
- and a small help of my libraries.
If you want to take a few lessons from ActionScript and these areas, this project is a lovely place to start. I did not tell you? Everything I am going to produce here will be licensed as Creative Commons, open for everybody. And that doesn’t apply only to source codes, I am talking about assets, source PSDs, illustrations, samples etc.
So if you’re interested in what I am going to come up with in next 6.5 days, enjoy me on the voyage. It will be a rather fast, but very fun trip. Watch this place and Twitter stream at @mumbojumbot.
Update
MumboJumboT project is done. Read more here.
WebExpo 2010: Preparing Data for Performance-Critical Apps in Flash.
In case you’re going to attend WebExpo 2010, I’d love to invite you to my talk.
Some people don’t like Flash because they experienced it in the form of annoying Flash banners and intro animations. But this format is groundbreaking and it’s possible to create almost anything with it; from simpliest animations to very complicated and sohpisticated applications.
Flash has given me absolute creative freedom for 13 years now. I learned how to use it effectively and created my own process which I will introduce to you…
I’m illustrator, graphic designer and also a programmer of Flash games. Most of our games are designed for Facebook. They have to be fast, small and very attractive. I will share my experience with development of these games.
I will show you my workflow from application design to execution. I use self-made framework that is available as opensource. I will also talk about more general process of preparing and optimizing data.
Pokud jdete na WebExpo 2010, rád bych Vás pozval na svou přednášku.
Flash může být někým vnímán negativně po zkušenostech s otravnými bannery a intro animacemi, kde bývá tato technologie použita. Přitom je tento formát naprosto přelomový a je v něm možno vytvořit takřka cokoliv, od nejjednodušších animací, po velmi komplikované a propracované aplikace.
Mě Flash dává už 13 let naprostou tvůrčí svobodu. Naučil jsem se ho efektivně využívat a vytvořil si řadu vlastních postupů, které Vám představím.
Jsem kreslíř, grafik a v poslední době také programátor flashových her. Navrhujeme hry hlavně pro Facebook, které musejí být rychlé, malé a velmi atraktivní. I o zkušenosti z vývoje těchto her se s Vámi chci podělit.
Představím vám svou workflow od návrhu aplikace po realizaci. Používám svůj vlastnoručně naprogramovaný framework, který jsem publikoval jako opensource a je tak k dispozici i vám. Kromě toho se budu také zabývat obecnými postupy přípravy a optimalizace dat.