Virtual Thoughts from eRoom-D

Fallout 3

So recently I have been playing Fallout 3. I have been hooked on the series since it’s unofficial progenitor, Wasteland (with Michael Stackpole – http://www.stormwolf.com – as one of it’s designers) caught my eye and stole my hours as a youth. I’ve been a fan, but never actually finished Fallout, or Fallout 2. I dabbled…

November 20, 2008
Flash animations in Flex ignoring their stop() actions?

Remember that issue I had with getting Flash and Flex to play nice and give me events from Flash swfs loaded into a Flex application? Well, it’s the same project, same files, and with a new wrinkle. So we have the near final files from the client’s agency, and they look good, and perform all…

November 6, 2008
First contact with 4e.

Well, we finally played a short session. We didn’t record it, but here’s the main result. I liked it, it’s very different, and definitely like a board game, but as the GM, I liked it. The monster stats in the first module, and the monster manual ones as well, are excellent and nearly all you…

October 9, 2008
Getting Flex and Flash to play nice to each other, when they are not on the same server.

Ok, so recently I needed to get a Flash swf into a Flex project and have the two talk to each other. Ok, fairly normal, I did it for a page navigation scroll bar that was AS2 and got it to talk with our Flex project and it works great. Problem though, the Flash swf…

August 25, 2008