Using only real-time effects with ActionScript 3, this demo emulates a lot of old-school visual/video game effects. Set to a mashup/mix of 80’s video game sounds, this demo experience would definitely be enhanced by the use of drugs. Neat stuff.
From one of my favorites, The Flash Blog, comes a little article/example regarding the new Timer class in ActionScript 3. This class replaces the setInterval() and setTimeout() methods previously used in ActionScript to fire events. As well as having the functions of the two aforementioned methods, it has a few new helpful features.
Over at ActionScript.com, there’s a great article explaining how ActionScript 3.0 uses Display Lists and Display Objects to manage all of your visual assets in Flash. This is definitely fundamental ActionScript 3 material, so get yer learnin on.
Get yer web trendy lovin butts over to the BIT-101 blog and check out the super simple tutorial on how to create a “Web 2.0″ gradient menu bar using ActionScript 3. Lovely!
Screw Web 2.0, this is like Web 3.0. Who needs AJAX? Fotologue is an impressive community-based Japanese photography site completely (mostly) done in Flash. Why aren’t we seeing more of these sites? Those Japanese, what will they think of next?