undocumented AS3 goodness

These are useful:

http://jpauclair.net/2010/02/10/mmcfg-treasure/

BitmapData Test

I've become interested in bipmapdata so I started a series of tests to see what it was capable of... I though that this test was neat... it demos 300 points randomly bouncing round the screen.

Click anywhere to start them animating and click again to reset:

http://www.jasonleon.com/tests/bitmapTests/randomPixels.swf

JSON validator

I'm a giant fan of using JSON for communicating client to server. I was introduced to this fun tool today!

http://www.jsonlint.com/

It's nice for making sense of what you're deserializing.

HTML5 is coming up

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

I'm definitely going to try a test project. The games on kesiev's site run very well. My initial criticism of building games in HTML5 was that all of the prototypes that I had seen prior were slow and jittery. These games, however, are far from that.