Adobe has launched a new site to support those interested in using the Flash Platform for creating games.
There are a number of articles and videos giving a comprehensive background to casual gaming and games development with the Flash Platform, as well as tutorials, samples and games to play.
Flash Platform Game Technology Center http://www.adobe.com/devnet/games/
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
New Video Production Resources from Adobe
A new online resource centre for video production has been launched by Adobe. The site contains curriculum, projects, assets and tuttorials.
http://www.adobe.com/education/hed/resources/video/
http://www.adobe.com/education/hed/resources/video/
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Free Flex Book
If you're interested in learning to create Rich Internet Applications (RIA), then get a head start with this free O'Reilly Book, Getting Started with Flex 3 courtesy of Adobe.
The book shows you how to construct an application that allows you to view photos from Flickr and also takes you through the basics of creating interfaces and making server connections.
Also available is the Learn Flex in a Week video training.
The book shows you how to construct an application that allows you to view photos from Flickr and also takes you through the basics of creating interfaces and making server connections.
Also available is the Learn Flex in a Week video training.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute 2009
Sadly I can't make it to this year's Education Leader Institute at Adobe HQ in San Jose, however through the wonders of technology (Adobe Acrobat Connect) I was able to see the introductory speeches and also take part in one of the presentations.
My fellow Adobe Education Leaders Roxana Hadad and Ian Usher presented on their Game Design Workshop which they ran earlier this year, supporting students almost entirely virtually through Acrobat Connect and a Moodle VLE. I was invited to participate and presented as a guest lecturer on various methods of designing games. I was also able to participate through their VLE, posting to discussion boards and answering questions.
This was a great example of using technology to provide very engaging online learning, and it made it possible to bring in expertise from all over the world to share their knowledge of games design.
If only all our classes could be this good.
My fellow Adobe Education Leaders Roxana Hadad and Ian Usher presented on their Game Design Workshop which they ran earlier this year, supporting students almost entirely virtually through Acrobat Connect and a Moodle VLE. I was invited to participate and presented as a guest lecturer on various methods of designing games. I was also able to participate through their VLE, posting to discussion boards and answering questions.
This was a great example of using technology to provide very engaging online learning, and it made it possible to bring in expertise from all over the world to share their knowledge of games design.
If only all our classes could be this good.
Friday, 24 April 2009
Flash Training Course - 16th June
Carnegie College is hosting a training course in Adobe Flash on 16th June 2009.
This one-day course covers the development of Rich Media Interfaces with Adobe Flash.
Website interfaces are becoming increasingly complex, with greater demands for interactive and dynamic content, and this course aims to provide the skills to start creating these types of sites.
Intended for those with prior experience of using Adobe Flash, the course will look at using and controlling multimedia elements in Flash using ActionScript and XML.
More details and booking information here...
This one-day course covers the development of Rich Media Interfaces with Adobe Flash.
Website interfaces are becoming increasingly complex, with greater demands for interactive and dynamic content, and this course aims to provide the skills to start creating these types of sites.
Intended for those with prior experience of using Adobe Flash, the course will look at using and controlling multimedia elements in Flash using ActionScript and XML.
More details and booking information here...
Thursday, 19 March 2009
New Coldfusion curriculum from Adobe
The new ColdFusion 8: Introduction and Advanced Development curriculum launched on the Adobe website today -http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/cfcurriculum.html
These two project-based curriculums are designed to teach experienced web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion 8.
These two project-based curriculums are designed to teach experienced web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion 8.
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Creating rich media websites with Flash
Sometimes you just come across a website, usually for a film or a video game, and you just say WOW! because it looks great and provides lots of interaction.
Many of my students see this kind of thing and immediately want to learn how to make awesome Flash websites, but suddenly fall flat because neither their graphics skills nor their ActionScript skills are up to it.
So, I'm currently developing a course in creating Rich Media Interfaces with Adobe Flash. Sharing some tips and tricks in Flash to help people make those really interactive, exciting and cool websites that just make you go WOW!
The course will look at using Actionscript, importing and using graphics, video and sound, and also utilising XML to make things more dynamic and easy to update.
Split into one-hour lessons the course will explore a variety of different interface elements that build together to make a highly interactive website template that can be used for showcasing a variety of different content.
Sound good? Is this the kind of thing YOU want to do?
The course should be ready for delivery in June this year, so if this is something you'd like to do, then please get in touch - cmaxwell @ carnegiecollege.ac.uk
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