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Gloria Jones – Tainted Love (1964)

double.dee — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:05:00 +0000

Hah ha! I said taint.

Listen to the original version of tainted love. I like the pictures of 1960s computers. Thank you infernet.

Video: She’s Got Me Dancing

double.dee — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:05 +0000

Tommy Sparks “She’s Got Me Dancing” from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

That’s Eric Wareheim of “Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job” fame. The video does more to capture the internal workings of my mind and is a microcosm of the human condition.

The freeze frame pretty much says it all.

Dancing hippies? Overweight musclewrestlers? Hopping/popping emo kids? An overly muscular woman shooting lasers out of her eyes? Girls in Xena garb eating ice cream cones?

Midi support added to flash / actionscript

double.dee — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:56:00 +0000

I was hunting for a way to send midi messages into flash/actionscript for some live animation hijinks. I would use my midi controller to trigger animations using commercially available sequencing software to record / retrigger once I had the sequence right. I mean, building all of that functionality into flash would be fun, but I’m only going to be alive another 30-50 years, so wheel reuse is sometimes preferrable.

Unfortunately I’ve not found any native support. Just when I was considering creating a midi translator, somebody beat me to the punch. It’s a java application that takes the midi messages and connects them into flash.

Abumarkub via [random internet searches]

Flash Game MVC Rant from LassieAdventureStudio

double.dee — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:07:18 +0000

Mac, the creater of the Lasssie Adventure Studio has a rant about how to implement the Model View Controller in flash. It’s pretty pedestrian, but I have a feeling that there are a lot of flash hackers out there who have no formal programming experience.

From the article:

“When starting a new project, the best favor you can do for yourself is
to build out your model without ever touching the display. When I
kicked off the AS3 Lassie Player, it was a solid month of just building
object structures that defined data holders, accessors, and organizers.
In that time I never put a single graphic on stage. It’s kind of a
backward way of approaching Flash as a technology – given that Flash
has gained a huge amount of its popularity through the instant
gratification standpoint of immediately getting to see pretty graphics
to tricks.”

The more important thing to take away from the article is that Mac is still developing the next generation of the Lassie Adventure Studio. It’s been a long time coming but it will be worth the wait.

The software is very near and dear to the Postmodern Sideshow. When it is released we will 1) Start work on a Sierra / SCUMM style adventure game and 2) Start working on non-game related flash content that will be like a scumm game. You wander through rooms and interact with objects, with no real goal other than to see the pretty things move and interact with eachother.

If you doubt the software’s awesomeness, try these two games that were developed using the previous version of the software. Highly recommended.

[Game: What Makes You Tick]

[Game: Nearly Departed]