Seb Lee-Delisle
Anyone playing my Lunar Lander game won’t know it, but we’re spying on them! The game gets around 20,000 hits a month, which is very roughly one a minute or so, so I thought it’d be the perfect vehicle to test out some real-time gaming techniques. I’ve replaced the original game with one that transmits […]
As there has been a lot of interesting talk on my recent live chat example I thought it’d be nice to actually see what you’ve been saying! So I checked out the Logging Chat By Room tutorial on the ElectroServer wiki. After some minor tweaks I got the Java extension compiled (the methods should not […]
I’ve just converted the code from the Simple Chat Tutorial on the ElectroServer wiki into Flex and I thought it may be useful to someone. Here’s what it looks like, and it’s connecting to an ES4 install with only 20 connections so forgive me if you can’t connect : [content no longer available, sorry] Here’s […]
Further news to report on my ElectroServer adventures! I’ve now got an ES4 installation up and running on a MediaTemple Dedicated Virtual server. It was actually pretty easy too, thanks to this tutorial from Greg Sidbury. I had no problems following although there are a couple of bits that confused me. The first was that […]
[This post is obsolete – ElectroServer doesn’t seem to exist any more] What else to do in the Christmas holidays but finally get my head around ElectroServer? 🙂 Of course the first (sometimes significant) hurdle in getting started with any multi-user technology is just installing the server on your machine! ElectroServer4 (ES4) is Java based […]
[UPDATE] in the latest incubator release of the FlashPlayer 11,0,0,60 there is now a native FlashPlayer settings panel! YAY 😀 The issue reported in my last post is now fixed so well done Adobe for moving so quickly! There were a lot of commenters who felt that this system is fairly unwieldy and perhaps the […]
I hate the Flash player settings panel. It drives me mental. I don’t understand the logic behind why you need to access a swf running on an external server to adjust the settings of a plugin that’s running on your computer? And many are the times that I’ve been stuck without internet access trying desperately […]
I resisted the urge to title this post What the swc? 🙂 For some unknown reason Flash just stopped exporting swc files properly. FDT could no longer see what was inside them. FDT guru Alan Klement kindly offered to help me troubleshoot the problem and he discovered that the catalog.xml file inside had empty script […]
I’m most passionate about hiding complexity with simple APIs, which is one of the reasons I’m so excited about Hype. A few weeks ago Peter Elst told me that he was trying to find a simple way to draw 3D shapes, and so I helped him with a bit of code. He’d done some great […]
You’ve probably seen the official announcement on the Papervision3D blog already but I just wanted to summarise here and give my take on the situation. Of course, Ralph has left, and i’ll miss him. But smart people like him need constant new challenges and I have no doubt that he will move on to bigger […]