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I was in Stockholm last week working for the company DICE thats developing Games for XBOX360 and PS3 consoles. I helped them a little for their “feature complete” under the week.

Quite interesting project but it takes a lot of time for bug testing, have to export the files, rebuild the game assets threw their pipeline, deploy the game, play the game for something to happen in the hud or menu system. pfew.

Still cool that they are using Flash for menus and other stuff. So happy that they put my name on the credits list for “Battle Field 3 – Bad Company”.

Life console, dice, Flash, game

Was looking around little in the new Device Central CS3. Here are some tools that I’ve really been looking forward to. Having full control of the Memory, this is important as well I think in web applications!

I’ve done a PSP game for a couple of months ago and had some issues with the memory. So I found that I could create a own profile for Device Central, so I skinned it with a PSP Device, so now I can control my games memory use without the extra unecesarry time for moving files and testing.

Execpt for that, building flash applications on a PSP really sucks. There is so many limitations, and if you’r building like me for events it really sucks because the only way for display flash content is to open the web browser, enter an url/bookmark and then it kicks in.
There is no way as well for setting a lot of PSP;s up with the same settings, there will be trouble in the next project when we have to manually setup 350 PSP;s.

What I did was to use “Adobe Device Central CS3″, created a new device profile. Probably a better way to do this but I did like this.

1.) Find the Devices, mine is here
C:\Documents and Settings\fredrikba\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Device Central CS3\Devices

2.) Create a own PSP folder, my is called
Sony_PSP_Main

3.) Copy a profile in the ./Device folder and create your custom profile, mines called Sony_PSP.XML, adjust and keep the settings needed.

4.) In the folder you created (Sony_PSP_Main), setup the visual images and information used when developing.

The hard part is to setup the info xml with all the facts, specialy when it’s not good defined from the supporter.

I’ve added a zip file to download, just unzip it into C:\Documents and Settings\fredrikba\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Device Central CS3\Devices

Unzip it to  “C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Device Central CS3\Devices”

Download file: devicecentralcs3_sony_psp_profile

Flash, Life develop, device central, Flash, psp

Back from Kos.
The company took us for a little trip to Kos in Greece for 4 days. There was some conferences and a open bar so you can imagen how it all looked. Had a great time hanging around with my colleagues and people from the other offices that I’ve worked with.

Thanks Daniel Falk for the great pictures.

Life conferance, greece, kos

Here I am at the FITC seminars at Toronto.
Must say that it has been an very interesting day, especially looking at Adobe’s keynote about the CS3 package. Very very interested in Flex as well and the capabilities of loading Flash CS3 content.

Toronto as a city is amazingly quiet. I’m living at a hotel downtown and it feels like it’s barely any cars or people on the streets. Was out Friday night at a club and they said that it was crowded. Well, we all have a way of looking at things.

Back in my own life looking back at the FITC toronto festival.
It was a really good trip, meet a lot of interesting people and the seminars was really good. So important to get a view of other markets, looking and listening at other developers and best of all, looking at Adobe’s new products. Really looking forward begining to work with the new tool and be able to change the production line the way that I want to…. thanks Adobe =)

Life canada, festival, fitc, toronto