Monthly Archives: November 2011

Finally: Atari Museum Atari History Book Is On The Way!

Posted on November 30, 2011 by 8bit_admin

We’ve been politely pestering Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel from The Atari history Museum to finish their book on Atari history for at least 5 years now. Well, it looks like the day might arrive soon. Today Curt announced a … Continue reading →

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Who Cares! Well, actually, Producto Studios and The Who Do!

Posted on November 29, 2011 by 8bitjeff

8bitrocket in conjunction Producto Studios is proud to be a small part to a big cause. Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, and Dave Grohl rocked an amazing fundraiser to benefit the UCLA Daltrey/Townshend Teen Cancer Program and Producto rocked the website design. Long … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving From 8bitrocket.com

Posted on November 24, 2011 by 8bit_admin

  (turkey image borrowed from here, turned into ASCII here)    

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The Kinect : Only The Illusion Of “Fun”

Posted on November 23, 2011 by 8bit_admin

So I’ve been branded a “Kinect” lover by some people, and for the past year that has been a fairly accurate statement.  Before that, I was a Wii lover.  In both cases, I truly believed in the idea of “motion gaming”. … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Gary Garcia of “Pac Man Fever” Fame : Now It’s time For Hollywood To Make A Movie About “Pac Man Fever”

Posted on November 18, 2011 by 8bit_admin

“To create a song that has mass appeal is among the most difficult things you’ll ever do.” -Jerry Buckner   According to Gamasutra, Gary Garcia, 1/2 of Buckner and Garcia died yesterday.   Back in February we contacted Jerry Buckner … Continue reading →

Posted in Atari Navel Gazing, Atari Nerd, Movies the Need To Be Made | 2 Comments

Adobe Donates Flex To Open Source Foundation

Posted on November 16, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Not much else to say here except to link to this: Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy. A good move to keep Flex viable for developers for the foreseeable future. (Thanks to R.J. Lormier for the heads-up)

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Press Release: 8bitrocket.com’s Jeff Fulton and Steve Fulton to Discuss the Emerging Role of Canvas Development At DevCon5 in Santa Clara, Dec. 7-8, 2011

Posted on November 14, 2011 by 8bit_admin

8bitrocket.com’s Jeff Fulton and Steve Fulton to Discuss the Emerging Role of the Canvas Development Environment     At DevCon5 in Santa Clara, California, December 7-8, 2011 Norwalk, CT, November 10, 2011— TMC and Crossfire Media announced that Steve Fulton and … Continue reading →

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More Fuel For The HTML5 Fire: Adobe Admits That The Long Term Viability Of The Flex SDK In Doubt

Posted on November 13, 2011 by 8bit_admin

In the “Your Questions About Flex Blog” on blogs.adobe.com, Adobe appears to be putting the future of Flex in doubt: Does Adobe recommend we use Flex or HTML5 for our enterprise application development? In the long-term, we believe HTML5 will … Continue reading →

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Now Don’t Get Cocky “Web Standards” Dudes, HTML5 Still Has A Looooooooong Way To Go.

Posted on November 11, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Two days ago Adobe announced that were were ceasing development of the Flash player for the mobile web, in favor of HTML5.   They  will focus on the air packagers and PC/Mac browser plugins.  Technologically speaking, nothing has really changed, … Continue reading →

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One Day After Adobe Retreats Flash From The Mobile Web: Our HTML5 Canvas Book Hits #1 On The Game Programming Chart At Amazon.com

Posted on November 10, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Also, it has the lowest ranking it has ever achieved too.

Posted in HTML 5 Canvas, HTML5 Canvas Book | 9 Comments

Adobe Drops Mobile Browser Flash Support : Are You Ready To Stop Thinking We Are Crazy And Learn About The HTML5 Canvas ?

Posted on November 9, 2011 by 8bit_admin

So, we’ve heard “through the grapevine” that many of our old readers and Flash Game colleagues were pretty skeptical about our choice to tackle the HTML5 Canvas.  Jeff and I have always tried to  figure out new trends early, and … Continue reading →

Posted in 8bitrocket History, HTML 5 Canvas, HTML5 Canvas Book | 34 Comments

Texture Packer Makes Sprites Easy to Export From Flash. For Corona, as well as Cocos2d, and more.

Posted on November 7, 2011 by 8bitjeff

I have a huge new gig that includes taking 100′s of pre-existing Flash animations and using them  to create a cross platform mobile application for a kids television network. The goal is to take the current Flash site (luckily in … Continue reading →

Posted in Corona Development, iPod/iPad Develpment | 9 Comments

Book Review: Fantasy Freaks And Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf

Posted on November 2, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Here it is, I’ll come out and say it.  I used to play pencil and paper role playing games.  I played games like Dungeons And Dragons, Palladium and Call Of Cthulhu for most of the 80′s. I was blessed with a … Continue reading →

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