Sound, another nightmare with Flash Lite!

5 days ago, Flash Lite 2.0 : Sound for Nokia S60 and Serie 40 devices document was released.
I was happy because 2 days before I was looking how to add sound on Poulpy.
So I donwloaded and read it...10 minutes later, I was very sad : even sound isn't as easy as it should!

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Q: what do you need to do to have Music and Sound on S60 AND S40 ?
A: Midi and bundled 3GP !

Sure...no problem for MIDI but, for 3GP it's another story, like I discovered in the document :

First, 3GP is a ....video format! cool, let play a video for its sound... who said memory problem ?
Second, a video must be on the screen, visible, to be loaded and played by FL player. Cool, I need to make a 3GP 1x1 pixels...err...which tool ?!

my my my...why everything must be so difficult ? ;)
at this time, my game has sound only on S60 since I didn't find a suitable tool to make a 3GP from a bmp and a wav...
I'll try MikSoft Media Converter since it's use FFMpeg or make a batch to access FFMpeg directly.

Adobe Aligns Mobile and Platform Operations

[from Adobe press]

I think you should read this press release from Adobe.

The introduction is the most important part :

an integrated technology platform and runtime environment for personal computers (PCs), mobile handsets and consumer devices

Some times ago, I write a post on an Richard Legget's article 'Future of Flash Lite'.

Add to this an old post of Ted Patrick on Tamarin :

tamarin-tracing is a VM for constrained environments (read mobile and devices) so that just about anything with a CPU and memory can execute ActionScript 3 Bytecode under low memory and low CPU conditions

I'm now sure Flash Lite will 'soon' disappear to be replaced by Flash.
We'll see what 'soon' is for Adobe ;)

Flash Lite contest 2007 results

The results for the Playyoo Flash Lite contest are finally known!

I'm really happy to see Bog Frog from Ekleptica won!
I really liked this game ! I even think it should be sold !
And it seems I'm not the only one if I read the comments ;)

Congratulations Ekleptica !

For info, these results are from the 2nd part of the contest.
The 1st part was for 'the most downloaded games' which I really disliked but learnt a lot. I planned to write a post about this but I think it will deserve me ;)
The 2nd part is from professional judges, I was really waiting for it. Not for my poor little game but to see what professionnals see as good/great games.

So, I'm very happy to see who is the winner of the America contest : the game I personally liked the much!

My first game!

It's here! my first Flash lite game !



I finally uploaded it on Playyoo for the contest I talked about some...months ago!

You can even preview it.

Thanks to Nadia, a great friend, for the gfx ;)

Flash Lite game contest

It seems I jump back on FL boat at the right time.
A game contest started last month.

Well, looking at the prizes, I think I should be able to find time to write 1 or 2 games!
You should do the same, I'd like to see great games on FL...and play them on my new toy, a N70

At last! The post I was waiting for

Does Flash Lite Have a Future? is a post from Richard Legget. You know him if you read his book !

From the beginning, I was looking for an answer to the question : "Can I make profits with Flash Lite only ?"
I now have the answer : yes...but for a limited time, so don't forget Flash/Flex/AIR.

Thanks Mr Legget!

Back

It's been a lonnnnnnnng time without posting.
Sorry for that but a lot of changes occured :
I'm now married and got a new job 2 months ago!
Not Flash Lite but Flex.

But, good news, I have a N70 at work!
It seems it's time to test the real thing!