Check out the project we (at Neo-Pangea) just spent the last three weeks working on. Definitely the quickest turnaround for this sort of game.

Ben Franklin versus The Dead Coats is a free, first-person zombie shooter built using Flare3D, utilizing Stage3D in Flash Player 11.

http://deadcoats.com

My thoughts exactly! Check out Sean's post on What Does It Mean To Be A Flash Platform Developer?

Well said Sean!

This is just absolute garbage.

http://applesucks.squarespace.com/blog/apple-banned-me-from-forums-scared-of-adobe-flash-on-ipad-an.html

There are several text-to-speech packages out there. But thanks to Google Translate, you can create a sort of "poor-man's" text-to-speech application in Flash. The method is a simple query string to the Google Translate service, which returns an MP3. Simply load that Mp3 into Flash, and voilà. The draw backs are that you only get one voice (although you can choose different languages which use an alternate accents) and you have a limit of 100 characters.

Check out the example and source code below.

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.text.TextField;
import fl.controls.Button;
 
// stage instances
var input_txt:TextField;
var speak_btn:Button;
 
var speech:Sound;
var url:String = "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=";
 
input_txt.maxChars = 100;
speak_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleClick);
 
function handleClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
     speech= new Sound();
     speech.load(new URLRequest(url + input_txt.text));
     speech.play();
}

Attention all Flash developers in the Reading, Pa area!!!

Be sure to check out the new Adobe Flash User Group in Reading. The Reading Flash Alliance is a group of Flash talent made up of local firms and freelancers who share ideas, knowledge, and talk shop. They are having a meeting next month and are giving away some prizes including a copy of Creative Suite 5. Pretty sick.

Go check 'em out. www.readingflashalliance.com

Ok so, in the beginning of 2010 I made a New Years resolution that I would learn one new thing each week and blog about it. Like most resolutions, it went for three weeks and then failed miserably. Now I would normally look at this as a failed attempt to commit to learning. However, the reason that I'm not able to keep up with this is because I am just too damn busy. I'm 6 months into my new job at Neo-Pangea, and loving it. We are developing some really awesome Flash applications that push the limits and are just down right bitchin'. So it goes without saying that I "am" learning more and more as we continue to kick ass for our clients.