Loli’s Adventure was the first mobile game project I saw through to completion as lead programmer. I learned a lot from it and got a feel for how it differs from browser games. The project was built with PHP (AMFPHP) + AIR (Starling plus traditional UI), and on the front end, Starling + traditional UI still runs into plenty of performance limits — from here on, I plan to drop traditional UI entirely for mobile games. This year is a breakout year for mobile platform products, and my interest is sky-high right now.

When using Xcode’s Archives panel to Distribute to iTunes Connect, I got this error: The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “conte...

Feathers is a lightweight UI component set that’s easy to skin and extend (works on mobile and desktop). Used together with Starling. My recent project is built with Starling, and time is pretty ti...

I barely have time to play games outside of work these days, but I still have to play this classic sequel, and there's Old Niu, Xiong, and my old comrades and everyone else from my student days who agreed to play this game together. I miss you all. My BN tag: mousebomb#3252, see you soon.

Question: When exporting FBX from 3dsMax for use in Unity, textures always get lost. Unity does automatically import materials when it imports the FBX, but the texture files all end up empty, so yo...

The new version of greensock’s tween now comes with a JS version. Based on animation performance tests, the more particles there are, the bigger the performance advantage over other frameworks. htt...

When it came time to upgrade to a gigabit home router, I agonized for a long time between Cisco’s e4200 and Apple’s AirPort Extreme. In the end, Apple’s big January 6 sale made the decision for me, and I bought the big AE (MD031) on the spot. The big AE paired with a MyBookLive is great value for the money compared with a Time Capsule. The gigabit Ethernet port has genuinely been a huge win — I get up to 100MB/s transferring files from the MBL, though wireless still feels a bit slow. And the one-click network extension you get from pairing the big AE and the little AE is genuinely handy.

Time: Sunday, October 16, 2011 Location: Meeting Room 1, Jingyi Hotel, No. 9 Dazhongsi East Road, Haidian District, Beijing Online registration:http://wefdc8.51qiangzuo.com/ Conference page:http://www.wefdc.com/index.html Flash Developer Conference Weibo:http://weibo.com/wefdc

As previously announced, Unity projects will be publishable to Flash via Stage3D (FP11). Before long, Unity projects will run in browsers with FlashPlayer11 installed. The Unity team says it is bringing as many Unity features into Flash as possible, with the goal of making Unity the best tool for building 3D functionality for Flash Player. On the 27th of this month, Unity will hold a Flash Tech Day, which will get Flash developers up to speed on moving to Unity development, show and introduce the features Unity supports in the Flash environment, and provide a beginner-level overview. For some of the latest news, check out this introductory article: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/09/01/unity-and-flash-a-sneak-peek/. I’m not all that interested in Unity’s own features, but one item — that programs running inside FP can talk to AS code both inside and outside a Unity project — is great news as far as I’m concerned.

1. Even though the power cable is labeled 125V, it plugs straight into a Chinese outlet just fine. If your TV is an older model with no HDMI port — only AV composite, S-Video or VGA — you can pic...

Went out for a walk this morning and ran into a kitten on the road that meowed at us. At that moment I wanted to say, let’s take it home — listen to how pitiful it sounds. We kept walking, got to ...

When compiling a project that uses robotleges in the Flash IDE, it always throws a null error at runtime (cannot access a null object…). Previously I had only ever compiled in FDT and never had thi...

Half asleep, I heard a fly buzzing against the window glass, thumping into it again and again, trying to find a way out. It kept at it, failing and trying again across the wide pane, droning the w...