Nike: Catch The Train
For Nikelab.com, a cool site run by Nike, I programmed the game “Catch The Train”, for the promotion of their new Shox NZ shoes. Unfortunately, no longer available online to play.

For Nikelab.com, a cool site run by Nike, I programmed the game “Catch The Train”, for the promotion of their new Shox NZ shoes. Unfortunately, no longer available online to play.

This was one of my first games, all done in that annoying little Flash 4 window. But I was determined to make 3D work in Flash. It’s not true rotational 3D, but it is projection 3D. I got the idea for this game when I was flying from San Francisco to Toronto and I saw…
Well, the new book is out It’s called Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development. Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Charles River Media; 2 edition (June 1, 2006) It’s not a “brand new book”, it’s a “Second edition”. For those who don’t have the original, it’ll be all great and new to you. For those who have…
This is an old favorite of mine, and so I simply couldn’t resist putting it in. Click here to play it! It may seem a little old, or “retro”, but remember that’s the point. To accurately represent the original game.
For MTV, this was for the Viewer’s Choice Award for the MTV Video Music Awards. It essentially involved firing the “Moonman” statues out of a cannon in 3D, at the group, singer, rapper, etc., that you wanted to vote for. This game was used to gather all the votes for the 2005 VMAs in Miami,…
I did a talk for this particular conference all about Flash game development, and specifically optimizing games, and also participated in the third “IronFlash” competition, defending our title from the year earlier. IronFlash was essentially, 3 hours, to code something with a really cool theme, live on stage in front of lots of very patient…
For Star Wars fans everywhere, try out my cool Flash toy: The Lightsaber Configurator. Choose the color and length of your lightsaber and even practice swinging it around, hitting a lightsaber practice droid. You will NEED at least the Flash 8 player to view this.