We’d like to call attention to a great free Flashevent on Dec. 4, 2011:

Flashtent is a livestreaming event hosted by John Barrett (HFUG) and Ben Fhala (EverythingFlash) and will cover Mobile, 3D, AIR, Gaming, and HTML5. Speakers include Dee Sadler, David Gamez, Chris Griffith, James Wagstaff, as well as FDT’s Alan Klement.

Alan will give a talk on mobile and haXe development with FDT 5 and thereby show what the new FDT has become capable of. Don’t miss this easy and free opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art coding in FDT 5.

MultiMania 2011 is going to close its doors in the next couple of hours.

The FDT team was sponsor at this year’s conference again and we really loved what we experienced. The audience mainly consisted of young people, mostly students, who are interested in nearly all parts of multimedia. It was great to meet these young talents and the new generation of Flash and Flex developers.

The FDT team was there with a booth to give interested attendees a quick introduction of FDT’s great features. We also wanted to get feedback from users as well as non-users about what they expect from their “dream IDE”. We were simply stunned by the feedback and decided to take as much ideas as possible into the next major FDT release.

Thanks to our boothneighbours we never got a dry throat. 😉

Malte Beyers session “Into the Molehill – An inside view”

Watch the video of the session.

We heard rumors that the date for MultiMania 2012 is already sealed. The FDT team will definitely be part of it!

As the RIA Forum in the beautiful city of Zürich, Switzerland, is coming up, we are supporting the event and its great sessions. We’re sure the forum will be as good as last time and the time before, so come and make sure to take part in the FDT raffle.

Multiscreen gaming with the Flash Platform – Desktop, Web and Devices

As you might know by now, at Powerflasher, we like to play! Plus, we think Flash and Gaming are a good match !

We are very excited to host together with Adobe our first Flash On Games (FoG) meeting, scheduled the 7th of Sept 2010

This is a flash gaming group located and hosted in San Francisco, focused and aim to involve audience and speakers at the national level. All sessions will be broadcasted live and recorded. A link to the webcast will be sent in a follow up email once registered. I hope you can join us.

Register here flashongames.eventbrite.com

In our first meeting we’ll have the following two session:

1. Flash Sizing Zen: Android Devices

Getting Android to Respect Your Intent

by Allen Ellison Solutions Architect @ Adobe

When you bring Flash games and content to the multi-screen web using Flash Player 10.1, it can be a challenge to get your content to displayed consistently across devices as you intended; in terms of size, orientation, alignment, interactivity and full-screen behavior. This becomes even more complex when you start taking web tablets into consideration.

There are a number of obstacles to creating a consistent and usable experience including mobile content transcoders, mobile devices that behave in certain ways to make a web experience really intended for desktop systems accessible to mobile users, an inconsistent use of HTML tags and meta-tags across device families, and user-configurable browser or device settings.

So, in order to create an experience that scales gracefully between desktop browsers and mobile browsers, this session will walk you through the steps necessary to eliminate the various potential points of variation.

2. Particle Systems 101

by Alec McEachran, Senior Software Engineer @ Gaia Interactive

If you have ever wanted fire, waterfalls, clouds, snow or myriad other effects in your Flash games, then you have needed to create particle systems. There are loads of particle effect systems out there that might suit your needs, but if you want your games to remain fast, you have to roll your own.

In pure AS3, this session will look at one way to build a fast particle system from the ground up, and survey some of the techniques for moulding your particles into the effects you’re looking to achieve.

About Flash On Games (FoG)

FlashOnGames covers all aspects of a flash gaming development phases, design best practices and technical challenges. Covering the entire gaming lifecycle, from the initial concept game idea, the designer and developer workflows, testing aspects and customers feedback and delivery.

It explores the gaming ecosystem, social platforms, frameworks, distribution, marketplace for the multiscreen gaming.

Follow us on Twitter @FlashOnGames or visit our website flashongames.com

Cheers,

Bruno Fonzi

NEWS UPDATE !

In addition to Gaia Online, we have a new supporter:

Organic, this means fun is guaranteed for everyone 😉

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After years of waiting an inspiring and great Flash event returns to San Francisco and we want to celebrate and share the excitement with you around FITC with CODAME

If you are a geek, designer or developer join CODAME, a San Francisco party for the tech industries greatest creative minds, packed together on a roof deck with the brightest Bay Area Art Geek regulars.

CODAME is an invitation only exclusive gathering, space is limited.
Monday, 16th of August, 2010 (day before FITC starts) at 8pm til midnight.

Final confirmation and exact location will be sent some days before the event, only to registered people.

Starpause, André Michelle and TrustFundKilla (LostScience) will be playing some tunes on the roof-top. Local art tech artist projects will be also on display.
Plus, amazing location- private roof-top downtown San Francisco – with superb view included. This event will be simply a blast !

We have some amazing local volunteers helping. If you want to help too, show your work under the stars or have a cool idea for the event. Contact me!

Powerflasher is one of the main sponsors for this event celebrating one year anniversary in USA as a Digital Interactive Development company.

We are looking for more to enhance the quality and quantity of food and drink. We would need some more sponsors to buy enough drinks and snacks for everyone, if you know someone, have an idea, Contact me!

Thank you so far for the following supporters:

Gaia Online Founded in 2003, Gaia Online is the leading online hangout for teens and young adults. More than eight million visitors come to Gaia Online every month to make friends, play games, and participate in the world’s most active online community. Gaia Online provides a fun, social environment that inspires individuality and creativity. With everything from art contests to discussion forums on poetry, politics, celebrities and more, to fully customizable profiles, digital characters and cars, Gaia Online is a place where teens can create their own space and express their individual style. They are hiring, so look out !

Organic is a leading digital communications agency that uses a consumer-empathy-based approach, combined with a holistic view of the digital landscape, to design and build exceptional interactive experiences that effectively engage and persuade customers.  Founded in 1993, Organic has offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, London and Toronto.  Adweek ranked Organic as the number one interactive agency in their 2007 interactive agency report card. Organic is a part of Omnicom Group Inc.

Mypressi has become the rockstar of the espresso world with the first handheld device that can make a perfect shot of espresso with water or, more relevantly, any other liquid. They will be pulling amazing shots at the CoDaMe Party. Stop by for some super smooth ‘spro-based cocktails. And remember, always code responsibly.

Influxis powers interactive Flash applications and the best parties for the community 😉 The team will have its own bar and serving very hot cool cocktails during CODAME, I hope you can handle it!

FITC knows how to build amazing flash events! FITC has been generous to support CODAME by offering major discounts if you decide to support CODAME too, we need more more drinks and food for hungry flash developers & designers.

If you think you can help, can be a supporter or should be simply invited, contact @BrunoFonzi

Firstly, we wish you all a happy new year! And to have something good to begin the new year with, I’m already bringing great news on this very first day of 2010. There will be a major event at the University of Hawaii, which will be broadcasted online thanks to John Barrett and the Hawaii Flash User Group

Date and Time: January 6, 2010 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm Hawaii Time Zone. If you don’t live in hawaii, please check the time in your area http://www.timezonecheck.com

Michael will be presenting FDT not only to the eager community of Hawaii but in fact to the whole world via webcast.

John explained, “this is not a meeting to miss!” – showing that he is just as excited as we are. Taking every chance to show our appreciation, there will some special surprises at the end of the meeting!

Check out the event details here and follow the presentation online: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/fdt

Again, Happy New Year!

Hi folks,

I am sitting at Helsinki Airport for stopover, flying to FITC Seoul. I did not get the time yet to post some Feedback about our awesome Prelude Event in Boston.

First Off, thanks to the guys of InfraRed5, Slot3, Domani Studios and Harvard University! Without them, we would not have been able to host it.

A small crowd gathered in the Tsai Auditorium at Harvard University Campus (bye the way, one of the best I´ve ever seen).

A big crowd was glued to their screens while watching our live stream. We had more than 400 unique users on the stream and over 1200 Clicks on the stream link. We never ever thought of reaching so many people through this little event. So thank you for your attention!!!

We are now thinking more thoroughly of streaming our different sessions at our World Roadshow together with our streaming partner Slot3! So stay tuned for new infos about that.

Thanks also to the Speakers Marcel Fahle, Michael Plank, Chris Allen and André Michelle, it was great to be at your sessions!!

Cheers,

Frank
Product Manager FDT

Hey folks,

we proudly announce the Harvard University (Cambridge) as official venue for the FDT World Roadshow Prelude event. It is a big honor getting the opportunity to meet in such historical halls and we highly appreciate the support of our partners at Harvard and looking forward to a great event of information and exchange.

The time will be confirmed as soon as possible!

Don’t forget to sign up! Attendance is free and there will be Flash Heroes as Chris Allen and André Michelle. Just visit http://roadshow.powerflasher.com.

Cheers,

Christopher

Addendum: We just published the schedule. Have a look here: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/blog/?page_id=121

Hey folks,

as pronounced in the former post, we just finished the integration of the FDT World Roadshow Prelude 2008 Website into this blog. From now on, we will steadily update the contents as we get new findings and results in planning and organization every day.

The most important facts you should know are:

• The event will take place in Boston on october 7th, 2008 (time and location will be published very soon)
• Registration will start on wednesday, september 24th, 2008
• First 30 attendees who sign up will receive a free copy of FDT 3.1 Basic when attending. Hurry up!
• Speakers like André Michelle and Marcel Fahle confirmed
• Beside the sessions and workshops, there will be an evening event to meet your desire for fun and pleasure

More information to find on the website itself.

Cheers,

Christopher

Hi folks,

we were recently informed that the 3-day conference “Flash on Tap” in Boston is “postponed”. As we were sponsoring this event, we were really sad to hear about this!

We were intending to officially launch our 3.1 version on this event, speak about our MXML-plans, and wanted to use the conference as a “kick-off” event for a roadshow around the globe. First we thought of not going to Boston at all, but now we changed plans again:

The FDT Team is coming to Boston, and we will host an “event to remember”!! Stay tuned as we are still in the planning process of setting things up. We will let you know in the next few days what is going to happen, where, who is part of it etc…

We will present a webpage with all necessary info and dates very soon!

cheers,
Frank