Comments on: Station Field Guide Part IV – FAC

By: Farbs

Farbs — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:09:53 +0000

I haven’t played Kick It yet, but I’d led to believe it’s a cross between AAAaaaAAAaaa(etc) and Audiosurf, which could only be amazing.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:37:30 +0000

Wow, that’s a really cool looking game there. I guess I got Captain Forever on Ron Carmel’s recommendation. Maybe I should also get this one on yours.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:22:05 +0000

PS: Clone or not, you still owe me a beer.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:21:46 +0000

Oh my.

That’s exactly what Ichiro would write, but this person didn’t know Ichiro’s real email address. Has he been replaced with a clone? Or is this the real Ichiro, and is the Ichiro I thought I knew the impostor?

I must kick these doubts, and drop my fears like an ugly baby.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3W-r9IobwI)

By: Ichiro Lambe

Ichiro Lambe — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:43:14 +0000

Farbs,

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Farbs.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:43:12 +0000

That book looks cool, but nearly $100 for it? I’m not spending that on any book unless it’s the most awesome thing ever created.

Space travel really interests me, though. Almost to a point of obsession. So maybe if I can find it on the cheap I’ll consider buying that book.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:43:54 +0000

Heh, no I think the record for this blog is still the post from my resignation (http://www.farbs.org/?p=46#comments)

I’ve shifted the feature I was working on back to the “things I’d like to do after release” pile, which is a shame because it’s super cool. Still, I have lists and lists of things I think’d be super cool to add, and I’m pretty sure that list will keep growing faster than I can implement it. I’ll try to get another station type done this week though.

If you’re after some reading you might like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Space-Pioneers-Available-Colonization/dp/0715378279
:)

@Captain William – I think function inlining is the big thing I’m interested in here. Hopefully Adobe will realize how handy it would be. That said, I’d rather they focus on low latency audio first.

By: Vaconcovat

Vaconcovat — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:29:42 +0000

I must say, is this a first? Two pages of comments?

‘Cmon farbs! Another chapter in the station field guide!

…this should so be a book. MAKE A BOOK.

By: Captain William

Captain William — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:22:24 +0000

Okay. HaXe is pretty useful, as it has lots of features that AS3 doesn’t, such as generics and function inlining. You can use AS3 code with HaXe, though. You just have to link a swf and make some stub files, which isn’t too hard.

Have you considered trying FlashDevelop? It’s pretty mature now, as an IDE, and, while the HaXe completion stuff is not very good, the AS3 intellisense is excellent, better than FlashBuilder, in my opinion. It integrates with mxmlc and the HaXe compiler well, too. When I’m using Linux, I tend to use gvim and swfmill.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:51:06 +0000

I use AS3, though I wonder now whether I should have considered HaXe. I have too much code to port it now though.

I currently compile with mxmlc, via a .bat file rather than commadline since I can launch a .bat and read the output from within SciTE. I’ve experimented with the Flash Builder plugin in Eclipse though and might migrate to it in future. I think on balance I prefer SciTE’s light footprint and speedy performance to Eclipse’s autocomplete and automatic incremental compilation though.