Tumblr (3.0; @markgoldsmith)http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/<p>I wrote the Tumble Game app in the Android Marketplace, which was published in Flash Builder 4. After a few iterations of the app, I figured out how to get better game play performance.</p> <p>First I set the the renderMode in the XML settings to &#8220;gpu&#8221;.</p> <p>Then for each game piece, I used an PNG graphic instead of a movieclip, and I set the cacheAsBitmap to true and the cacheAsBitmapMatrix to a new Matrix.</p> <pre> <code> [Embed( source="assets/greenStar.png" )] private var Asset:Class; var assetBitmap:Bitmap = new Asset( ); assetBitmap.smoothing = true; assetBitmap.cacheAsBitmap = true; assetBitmap.cacheAsBitmapMatrix = new Matrix(); </code> </pre> <p>After doing those few things, the frames per second went from 9 to 22. Thats a big improvement.</p>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/1314239187http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/1314239187Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:17:57 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5589xlxsL1qbv998o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777207502http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777207502Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:56:21 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5589hmMOp1qbv998o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777206737http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777206737Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:56:05 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5588oN1yl1qbv998o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777205495http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777205495Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:55:36 -0400<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/13057438" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>I took my Flash app for Android one step further and added the control of a tank and a turret using the two virtual joysticks.</p>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777136717http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777136717Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:31:00 -0400<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/13018416" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>I took a simple virtual joystick Flash app, and made it work with multitouch controls on the Motorola Droid using the Android AIR app. The app I created has two virtual joysticks that respond to multitouch.</p>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777135574http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/777135574Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:31:00 -0400“Are you being followed? Because I’ve been seeing people behind your back.”<br/><br/> - <em> Demetri Martin - Break up lines</em>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/484291097http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/484291097Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:42:09 -0400<p>Just starting out fresh here with a new website. I got rid of Wordpress because I was sick of the spam, and I like the idea of micro-blogging.</p>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/470881990http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/470881990Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:59:13 -0400<iframe width="400" height="240" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NH0aEp1oDOI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Amazing new Photoshop feature, you must watch this to see it in action. It works like magic.</p>http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/470675012http://blog.iammarkgoldsmith.com/post/470675012Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:55:00 -0400