Monthly Archive for June, 2011

AIRServer example: multi-user smartphone controlled game

Published on June 23, 2011 in Actionscript 3.0, AIR, Flash and html5. 4 Comments

I wrote this game on top of my AIRServer library, as part of some multi-user explorations with the flash platform. The graphics were created by my HOWEST colleague Jynse Cremers :-)

Users can join a 30-second spacegame. Each user controls a spaceship with their smartphone. The game itself was built with Adobe AIR and the AIRServer actionscript library. To join the game users can choose between a native application built with Adobe AIR, or an html5/js websockets client in their browser.

I’ll release the source files after some cleaning up, so you can play around with it aswell!

Update: find the source files in the follow-up post!

Smartphone controlled game on Vimeo.

Communicating between websockets, local P2P, flash sockets & AIR

Published on June 10, 2011 in Actionscript 3.0, AIR and html5. 2 Comments

I’ve shown you how to handle websockets in adobe air, and how to set up communication between flash sockets, websockets and adobe air using a library I wrote. I’ve extended the library with support for local P2P, using Cocoon P2P.

airserver-sockets-websockets-rtmfp

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AIRServer – handling both sockets & websockets in Adobe AIR

Published on June 9, 2011 in Actionscript 3.0, AIR and html5. 2 Comments

In my previous post, I talked about how to handle websockets in Adobe AIR. I’ve written a library around it, which makes it easier to implement in your projects. Another benefit of the library, is you can combine websockets with regular sockets, so you’re able to talk between Adobe AIR, websockets and flash sockets.

AIRServer Messages Demo

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Handling websocket connections with Adobe AIR ServerSocket

Published on June 7, 2011 in Actionscript 3.0, AIR and html5. 1 Comment

Since Adobe AIR 2.0, you can create your own socket-servers, using the flash.net.ServerSocket class. This makes it easy to hook external applications to your AIR applications, for example to create a game (server) with multiple devices as game controllers (socket clients).

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