Flash 8 is great for platform games

[slight]

one thing i noticed in a similar test is that wrapped scrolling images are much faster than splitting it up into several smaller images at different depths.

erixon can I ask what method you used for the wrapped scrolling background? mine uses a mask over a bitmap fill that is 2x the stage size, and it seems amazingly fast.

[erixon]

Its just a 640x480 image added 4 times, that should be little overhead I think, in bitmap fill there is logic for the polygon and stuff, but if you repeat small image, it should be useful.

[tonypa]

For a moment I thought Flash8 is available today, but I guess we have to wait for 12 sept

http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...info/features/

[fil_razorback]

7 fps, not bad for this comp

[X-Tender]

Thats realy nice .. is it possible to get the fla? ..

[tonypa]

Really nice example of Flash8 by Grant Skinner called "flowerGarden":

http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archive...8_thought.html

I specially like the the fact that it never fills RAM or CPU even when it constantly creates new flowers.

[Blips]

how hard is that motion blur to pull off? it looks really nice.

[pentru]

nice!!

I'm glad we finally have a shipping date!!!.....hope for us games in won't be too much of a hassle to adapt to the new ways/features in 8, while trying to maintain our workflows...