How do you take a classic platform game and adapt it for 4 year olds? This was the challenge we faced in designing Justin Time Online, a joint production with Guru studios. Goal In classical platformers, like Super Mario Bros., the goal is to get to the end of each level without dying. For our [...]
zinc Roe is looking for freelance developers to work with us on upcoming projects. We develop websites, games and apps for children. We build things that we are happy to share with our kids, nieces, nephews and neighbours. Our developers are very talented and enjoy applying these talents to build games and activities that delight, [...]
zinc Roe is looking for an experienced ActionScript developer for a six month contract position build online games for preschoolers.
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had some time to take a look at what Adobe Labs has been up to and got caught up on Stratus. Stratus is a (currently free) service Adobe provides that enables peer 2 peer communication between multiple instances of the flash player. It uses RTMFP which you can learn more about on Adobe Labs. [...]
Zinc Roe & TVO has just launched Globequest, a game that lets children (and adults) learn more about different places and cultures around the world! This is probably one of the bigger projects I had the opportunity to work on here at Zinc Roe, and I must say, it was an awesome experience. Not only [...]
As a wise man once said, “Id rather entertain and hope that people learn, than teach and hope that people are entertained.” This man was Walt Disney. I decided to follow suit and screen a collection of animated films for my friends and colleagues at Zincroe. Each film represents a certain artistic look/style rather than [...]
With the introduction of FLARToolkit and other means of tracking user input through a webcam in flash, I recently had a chance to read up on some of the other ways we can interact with flash applications using a webcam. Camera.activityLevel The most basic way to detect activity through a webcam in flash is by [...]
Time to cast your vote for Crappy Cat at this year’s SXSW People’s Choice awards! http://sxsw.com/peoples-choice