Flash roundup
Apologies for the lack of decent updates - been busy on a bunch of different projects for a while now. Heres a few titbits from the world of Flash:
Roxik
The personal site of Masayuki Kido, a Japanese freelancer. Only a couple of things up there now - a nice Mario64-esque deformable 3D head (presumably his own) within a TV, and a beautiful ragdoll-in-silhouette piece (linked) that reminded me of ICO mixed with the TORNADO! Could this be the next monocrafts?
http://roxik.com/toy1.html (via bit-101)
Papervision3D
The creation of Carlos Ulloa Matesanz, a Spanish Interactive Designer currently working at Hi-Res, this is certainly the most impressive Flash-3D engine yet released. The demos have been floating around for a while now, but the project is due to go open source soon, and he has already released a version to allow you to plug-in your own MAX-exported ASE files here.
Papervision3D “Room” Demo - http://www.noventaynueve.com/lab/room/
Cyberchase Inventors’ Workshop
Created by Keith “bit-101″ Peters, this Physics-centric game reminds me a little of Armadillo run. Each challenge provides you with a specific goal and a construction kit of various objects which can be joined-together and placed on the “Playmat”. I’m not a fan of it visually - the visual area is tiny and the graphics are unpleasant - and I’m not sure why the goals are not displayed during the construction phase - but its definitely an interesting and engaging online game.
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/inventions/
