With the release of FDT 5.5 we also introduced a new payment model – subscriptions. To welcome this new opportunity, we want to spend a free month of FDT Max to all of you. With subscription payment you are much more flexible in setting up your development team with FDT 5. You can subscribe to [...]
We are thrilled to finally release FDT 5.5. Many of you have been using 5.5 beta and we received loads of fantastic feedback that helped us introduce you to the best FDT ever. FDT 5.5 is a free update for all FDT 5 customers. We added heaps of fantastic new features to this big release [...]
We’re close to the final release of FDT 5.5. We got a lot of feedback from you and tried to bring as much as possible into the release. So, download the second beta with full FDT 5 Max functionality and let us know what you think.
We are proud to announce our next great and big update for FDT 5. Right now it’s a beta version but the final release is planned very soon. It will be a free update for all FDT 5 customers. We added some great new features to this “major minor release” and we’re sure you’ll like [...]
Last week, Adobe announced Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming and the news was received with mixed reviews by the community. This mixed reaction concerns us because a healthy Flash ecosystem is very important to the FDT team. We would like to state how we feel about this announcement with the hope that our opinion [...]
Author and FDT fan Sidney de Koning has just completed a new book titled ‘Automating ActionScript Projects With Eclipse and Ant‘. It’s a short and sweet book that gives a nice introduction for anyone interested in integrating Eclipse & Ant into their Flash workflow. In this book, you’ll find various powerful Ant scripts as well [...]
You asked for it and we built it. FDT 5 is now available as an Eclipse plugin. Many developers prefer to have FDT installed into an existing Eclipse setup. Starting today, you can install FDT as a plugin and it will function as FDT Free until you enter a license key. To install FDT as a plugin: [...]
When Sidney de Koning released his book “Automatic ActionScript Projects“, which included a chapter on FDT and ANT, we raffled off one FDT 5 Max license, two hard copies and three ebooks of the publication (remember the post). Now we have drawn the winners: The FDT 5 Max license goes to @fnosse. The hard copies [...]
The word from Michael Plank (of Pro 3 Games) is that gotoAndSki was a blast. I’ll admit that I’m a bit jealous. Myself and anyone else who didn’t attend will have to imagine what it was like. In fact, Michael’s exact words are: “Tons of snow, fun snowboarding, awesome food, great speakers and talks and 40 attendees made [...]
The guys from GameDuell wrote us a really nice user story that we don’t want to hold back. GameDuell successfully develops Flash games with FDT. Thank you guys for sharing your story! “The use of the FDT refactoring- and advanced code-navigation tools allows maintaining our source code across projects that are being written by many [...]
Douglas Saisho (@mistersaisho) and Demian Borba (@demianborba) of Action Creations (@actioncreations) had a big first place win at AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon 2012 in Las Vegas! They worked non stop for 7 hours and competed against 150 amazing developers coming from all over the world. We’re especially excited about this win because the team created their Blackberry [...]
“FDT is simply the best and most powerful tool for Flash game development. Writing 333% awesome code for Delta Strike is what we love, FDT helps us do exactly that!” – Michael Plank [CTO/Founder Pro 3 Games] The Challenge Developing software is a challenge, developing games an even bigger challenge. Games and especially 3D games [...]
Over the last 2 years, the FDT team has received tons of ideas (about 600) for feature requests and improvements, both big and small. With so much feedback it can be hard to ‘see the forest for the trees’, both for the community (when voting and making suggestions) and for the team. There also is [...]
The Stanford Hackathon Game Competition People choice award has tie and we need your help! The way to determine the winner is by using MochiPop: MochiPop is a game popularity index which scores games based on a range of network data such how many plays the game has been getting. Basically, you vote by playing the game [...]
As already announced in our blog post earlier, we made some changes to the license management: with FDT 5.5 we will be introducing a new subscription licensing model. This is something we have been asked about for quite a while and we are proud to announce that we finally integrated it. We will keep our former “One-time [...]
As you may have read in the blog post on FDT 5.5 beta, there will not only be loads of new features, but we also improved our license management. Since the introduction of FDT Free we are proud to have an FDT for everyone, but the way to refinance it are the revenues from our [...]
At the core FDT has always been about comfort, customization and community. With FDT 5.5, the team delivers a new feature that is a powerful combination of all 3 – SWFBridge. Use FDT Free or Max to create applications for Blackberry devices! Create Your Own Plugins For FDT FDT’s SWFBridge is a platform that allows developers to [...]
APDT – the Agile Pseudocode Development Tool – is a great plugin to use with FDT. The tool by Envision automatically produces source code and documentations from simple models. APDT instantly generates different source codes and can export pseudocode to Java, JavaScript, ActionScript and PHP. The user interface is easy to use and smoothly integrates [...]
Another improvement coming in the next version (coming soon) of FDT! We’ve added a GUI for the device simulator.
After we presented some success stories of FDT that we were given by others (e.g., DeltaStrike, GameDuell), this time we thought we could show you an internal case of Powerflasher Agency and why we decidedly chose Flash and FDT. We created a mobile, platform-independent app for Vaillant, a premium supplier of heating installations, heat pumps, and solar solutions.
We are frequently posed questions about customer service or marketing related problems. Doubtlessly we do not want to ditch any questions and enjoy helping you in person.In order to speed things up, however, and to not have you needing to write us an email every time, we have come up with a new customer service FAQ in our docs.
beyond tellerand – play is happening right now in Cologne and the FDT team is pleased to both be sponsors and featured in two presentations! Even more exciting, you’ll be able to catch a peek of FDT 5.5 – soon to be released. On Thursday, @Michael_Plank takes the stage to talk about Workflows for developing next-gen 3D [...]
We are proud to sponsor Play 12 this year again. By now it’s our 10th sponsorship and we can definitely say that it is one of our most favorite conferences. We will have a small booth and Philipp from the FDT Team and some guys from the agencies will be there to show you the [...]
All eyes on Stechelberg: from January 26th through 28th, 2012 (Thursday – Saturday) we want to recommend you the most adventurous Flash/Flex/Mobile conference. GotoAndSki(); is an event in the Swiss Alps hosted by Fernando Colaço and David Almeida. This unique combination of boarding/skiing/sledding and conference sessions guarantees the maximum fun in the dull month of [...]
Last month, I spoke at Flashtent along with some other great speakers. I presented on getting started with FDT & Mobile as well as gave an intro to the haXe platform. After some editing, the team at Everything Flash posted the session. Here’s the outline of the topics discussed: Overview Our first Android App in FDT Debugging with FDT [...]
Christmas is coming up and even though Santa is still packing his bag, we already have a gift for you.
With the recent release of FDT 5 and FDT Free, the trial version of FDT has become obsolete. While FDT Free is great for small projects, this Christmas we want to share the full experience of FDT Max with all FDT Free developers.
Breaking News: With less than two weeks to go: FDT 5 is once again sponsoring beyond tellerrand. The conference takes place between the 20th and 22nd of November in Düssseldorf, the beautiful North Rhine-Westphalia capital. Even better, FDT blog readers get a discount of 10% on the remaining tickets!
Good bye Brighton, hello Aachen – We’re back from Flash on the Beach 2011 with some good and “bad” news. It was nice. It was exhausting. It was fun. It was inspiring (still is!) and it is over.