This weekend Stella & Sam Online launches on Playhousedisney.ca to coincide with the premiere of the television series. At the heart of the micro site is a series of Online Adventures that seamlessly marry animated narratives with simple online activities. The idea is that pre-schoolers join nine-year old Stella, her four-year old brother Sam and [...]
zinc Roe is looking for an experienced developer for a six month contract position building iOS games for preschoolers.
As a company based in Ontario, zinc Roe has benefitted tremendously from access to tax credits and funds such as the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, OMDC Interactive Digital Media Fund, and the Canada Media Fund. When I speak to colleagues in the new media field about these funds the general reaction is amazement [...]
When using the webcam in your flash applications, it can be handy to flip the video object so it acts like a mirror. Many of the flash webcam demos out there does exactly this, usually by setting the scaleX property of the video object to -1. Unfortunately, because the registration point of the video object [...]
As promised here are my slides from my talk at INPlay this week. I really had a great time at INPlay. Building Apps for Preschoolers – INPlay 2010
zinc Roe seeking a freelance bilingual children’s web editor (freelance) zinc Roe is a new media studio specializing in building games and websites for children. We are seeking a web editor to handle content updates, promotions, and email correspondence with users of our websites and applications. Candidate must be fluent in French and English – [...]
While debugging our new Tickle Tap Toddler Pack iPhone app, I had to fix a couple of obscure bugs caused by the YouTube video on the app’s info screen. After watching the video, none of the sound effects in Sound Shaker work and Field Flier just displays a blank white screen… very strange. After a [...]
Today’s blog post started out as a comment on What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges. I share Ryan’s general frustration with how Ontario’s colleges are failing to serve either their students or our industry. I’ve had my share of experiences with the Ontario college system. I taught Flash programming at Centennial College and George Brown and [...]
For the past few years zinc Roe has supported a number of charities. It’s part of being a good corporate citizen. Everyone on our team puts forward the name of one charity to give to. It’s a great chance to learn more about all the great work that charities are doing both here at home [...]
Just in time for the holidays, we now have three more Tickle Tap Apps available for download on the iTunes App Store! Field Flier is a highly imaginative app that’s jam-packed with all-original (and quite wonderful!) illustrations, animations, music and sound effects. It took a great deal of programming prowess on Luke Lutman’s part as [...]