At the moment I’m trying to learn how to make timeline animations in Flash and yet somehow I end up animation which is 80% coded, isn’t that just great!?
Just fooling around I came up with this result:
Jolly jellyfish - vector animation | download
The movement and generation of the jellyfish is all actionscript (2.0), the “squezing” is timeline-animation…
justGREAT! I was experimenting a little with new cartoon/vector styles in Flash and now here we are with some nice (widescreen) wallpapers for your ass:
air critters – vector – flash cs3 | download
HOOT… – vector – flash cs3 | download
critters – vector – flash cs3 | download
no name - vector – flash cs3 | download
face – vector – flash cs3 | download
Hope you like ‘em. Feel free to use and/or distribute…
This week I made some designs for my Mahjong game (read more) and the game is gonna be just great! Here is a little preview of the tiles and the style of the game (I’ll upload more designs later on):
Besides the designs I also needed a nice transition between the background and a map that will be shown somewhere during the game (as some sort of level selection). Because the style is kind of “old” I thought it would be a good idea to make some sort of dissolve transition.
Whaddayaknow; I managed to get a decent result in just a couple of hours.
Despite the fact that I used a perlinNoise and a copyChannel the result runs pretty smooth. Check it out:
http://labs.justgreat.nl/exp080201.htm
To accomplish the dissolve effect I used an alpha mask on the top image (in this case the “map”-image). The mask itself is created by combining a perlinNoise and copyChannel. The perlinNoise creates the randomness and the copyChannel transforms the randomness into a transparent layer.
The size of the mask is half the size of the image and stretched to match the size of the image. This way only a small perlin noise has to be created which increases performance.
Just great; a new week and I have only one spare evening do a little experimenting 
Since my goal was to put up at least one decent experiment a week and since I have little time this week, I decided to upload an experiment that’s almost a year old. It’s an engine for a Mahjong game:
http://labs.justgreat.nl/exp061203.htm
At the time I made the engine I didn’t feel like creating nice graphics so the experiment still looks a bit boring.
Because the engine works fine I thought it would be a wast not to use it, so tonight I created some graphics for the tiles (check them here).
The symbols are taken from a photo of real Mahjong stones. so they should be quite accurate.
The tileset is not 100% complete yet and the current tiles still need a little work on the coloring as well, but I’m sure I’ll finish it somewhere next year 
It’s just great to know that after all these years I still got some of my php-programming-skills left. Today I added online highscores to the Bubble Schmubble game using a little php-script which reads and writes the highscores in an xml file. This means you can now compete with your friends or colleagues. Isn’t that justGREAT!?!
I also moved the game to a new location. From now on you can check the game here:
http://games.justgreat.nl/bubbleschmubble/
Besides the online highscore option I also added some sounds (again) and I animated the creatures inside the bubbles a little (quick and dirty).
Last but not least I removed the MochiAd from the game because it was way too annoying and I needed at least a 1000 players a day (!) to make just a little profit from it 
. Instead of the MochiAd I added normal google-ad-banner though, in the hope it will pay me off some day .
I hope you enjoy playing against each other because your highscore will be visible to everyone who plays the game.
