I’ve been playing with Flash some more, and have made the leap to pure AS3. I’m using FlashDevelop, which is a really great IDE – far better than Flash CS3 itself for writing code. It’s amazing what a difference a good editor can make.

Anyway this is what I came up with, a bit of a rehash of some old Blitz Basic demos I did long ago. Click to launch fireworks
Fireworks.swf

Now I’m trying to learn flixel, a free AS3 framework designed for games. I’ve already made one basic platform game following a tutorial, and am now working on my own.

After much battling with ActionScript, this is the latest version of my Mandelbrot generator. Yes, it has skipped a few version numbers. New features:

• Rough rendering first, followed by a better quality one
• Various optimisations
• Information panel
• Actually being able to get back out again, without reloading the flash
• Doesn’t resize stupidly
• Just generally cleaner code

Hooray!
mandelbrot 5.swf