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Using voxelJS with Processing and Hype

By Brendon Smith on September 22, 2013 | Leave a response

So I recently re-released TweetBlaster as BotBlaster dropping twitter integration. I found in the end the twitter integration slowed down the game. So the new version is much faster. I will also be adding ad support via unity3d ad system. I have also decided to make the game free. I will also be releasing an […]

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TweetBlaster is available now on the Play Store

By Brendon Smith on April 7, 2013 | Leave a response

So for the past few months I have been working on a social video game that is a first person shooter. Primarily to teach myself how to make video games and have fun while doing it. So I choose to use Unity3d which has some really nice features built in for game developers. It was […]

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Old School Simple FPS with app Source

By Brendon Smith on August 19, 2012 | Leave a response

This is a simple class that you can use to rapidly create a simple fps or old school role playing game. Games don’t necessarily have to be complex sometimes the beauty is in the simplicity. So let me give you a little history. Growing up I had a 486 and well I loved it spent […]

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Away3D Mobile App with Source

By Brendon Smith on July 31, 2012 | 1 Response

Well whats not too like about being able to rapidly create a mobile application with some of the libraires you know and love? Do you like being able to rapidly create mobile content? I do and I love what Adobe has been doing with AIR 3.3. It is easy to build a mobile application and […]

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Away3D Bullet Physics and MD2 and Waves

By Brendon Smith on January 8, 2012 | Leave a response

Away3D is the weapon of choice for 3D content on the Stage3D platform. Away3D offers a great deal of support for many model formats and integrates well with many other as3 libraries.  You will find that it is actually easy to integrate Away3D with several popular physics libraries including but not limited to Bullet and […]

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Garden of Joy webGL Social Experiment

By Brendon Smith on August 28, 2011 | 4 Responses

What is this? It is a simple webGL social experiment. It allows you to share ideas and passions with your friends on facebook by doing so you help build the garden. You can also view other flowers by using your arrow keys to move with the mouse and clicking on other flowers to view what […]

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BSP Map in threeJS and AWAY3D using Molehill and webGL

By Brendon Smith on June 12, 2011 | 1 Response

First off I know have the JSONObj parser working with shaders and materials so! So in short it has I believe all of the current functionality of the OBJParser that is currently in the AWAY3D broomstick build it may even have more functionality. I have been testing it rigorously and will need to re-factor some […]

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Thoughts on Android and WWDC perdictions

By Brendon Smith on June 5, 2011 | Leave a response

With android at home we as developers should take notice and feel free to invade the home. Now is the time for hardware hacking with android as the remote. Think of all the things we can accomplish and with Google’s open accessories api’s we don’t need to pay Google a fee to play with the […]

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ThreeJS model parser for Away3D Broomstick running on Molehill

By Brendon Smith on May 30, 2011 | 1 Response

This JSONOBJ parser will take obj js models for three.js and parse them for Away3D BroomStick. I created this class because I thought it would be nice to share assets between the two engines. I also think other people can use it. I think the majority of people would like to have models ready for […]

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Molehill Away3D Dancing Fish Demo Part 1

By Brendon Smith on May 16, 2011 | 2 Responses

Requires Install of Flash Player “Stage3D” Download Example / Launch Demo Away3D specifically broomstick really cleans up the competition should look out. It is easy to use and is ridiculously fast! The upcoming flash player is such a leap from the previous versions its really quite astounding. So if you haven’t downloaded that latest flash […]

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Simple Star Wars webGL Arcade Game

By Brendon Smith on April 10, 2011 | Leave a response

Arcade games are simple visually appealing, fun, and if your lucky extremely addicting.  This example is not meant to be an artistic expression it is a simple example of what is possible in a couple of hours with webGL and a few open source tools.  I am really excited about Molehill and I will be […]

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webGL Crystal Demo

By Brendon Smith on December 21, 2010 | Leave a response

This demo utilizes webGL shows an animated 2d canvas on a 3d object and has a 3d plane that displays video. This demo also takes advantage of the Audio Data Api that is currently in the Firefox 4 Beta. I have been playing around with the energizeGL and processingJS and I have found they complement […]

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Simple SpiroGraphic with processingJS

By Brendon Smith on November 19, 2010 | Leave a response

ProcessingJS is almost fully implemented. If you hit the toggle you will see that the current implementation of processingJS supports just about every feature of the java implementation. It also now supports the 3d canvas. I have mostly been using processing for 2d experiments and I have found it extremely easy to use. I also […]

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Adobe Leverages HTML5

By Brendon Smith on November 16, 2010 | Leave a response

Adobe Loves HTML5 and it is obvious in their latest offerings. Edge a new project that will allow developers to utilize a timeline and export animations as CSS3 and JavaScript. Flash designers will also be able to easily convert their flash .fla files in to HTML5 animated documents. For those of you out their that […]

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Virtual Painting with Hype

By Brendon Smith on August 3, 2010 | Leave a response

The hypeframe work is truly a unique library it offers generative artists a new tool to quickly create generative art. I believe it also provides flash developers with a rich actionscript library that does a great deal of heavy lifting. The library allows you to quickly create swarming effects that you can use to create […]

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HTML5 jQuery jqPanoramic Plugin Alpha

By Brendon Smith on June 1, 2010 | 2 Responses

A simple jQuery plugin that allows for creation of Cubic Panoramic Images. This plugin utilizes on CSS3 3D transfoms to complete this task it also relies on jQuery UI. This plugin is an alpha and currently only works for Safari Nightly builds it has been tested against on an Apple running the latest webkit nightly […]

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Tweet Tank in Away3D and Hype pt. 2

By Brendon Smith on May 16, 2010 | 3 Responses

I have now added support to search twitter. Once you search twitter it repopulates the fish bowl with fish that once clicked will navigate to that twitter search result. I have been working on optimizing the content. Specifically the fish models are very processor intensive. I have been looking at different ways to improve this. […]

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WebGL Rendering of BSP Maps

By Brendon Smith on May 14, 2010 | 1 Response

It has never been a better time to be a developer. I am really looking forward to full implementations of HTML5 everywhere I believe HTML5 / JavaScript / ActionScript will be an extremly potent combination! I believe their will be proliferation of new devices in the mobile arena. JavaScript and HTML are also becoming more […]

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I love that idea!

By Brendon Smith on May 13, 2010 | Leave a response

Show support submit a work of Public / Weblic Art in the comments to this blog post. We should respond using the Heart as an artistic symbol much in the same way Chicago had their CowParade. The adobe community should respond virally through the use of the web as a means to communicate. So I […]

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