Jesse
07-29-2001, 06:29 AM
I’m sitting here munching on my lunch and I figured I’d write a bit of a rundown of the events that kept me busy over the last 4 days. I was one of the lucky delegates/attendees at FK01, Australia’s first real Flash conference, organized by http://www.flashkit.com and australia.internet.com.
I flew into Sydney (Australia) on Wednesday and spent a while meandering about the city, looking for Centre Point Tower.
Thursday was Day 1 and I rocked up at 8.30am to register, received my little name-tag and party-pack and started mingling. For me, the mingling opportunity made the whole conference worthwhile. How often do you have a chance to meet up with 400 or so likeminded professionals? Not often enough!
At the Welcome Note and Breakfast, Mark and Mike introduced themselves and gave us an idea of what to expect over the next 48 hours. Mark also gave us some FlashKit site traffic statistics that would make your mouth water.
The ActionScript & Adavanced Flash Features session, with David and Rasheed covered the OO nature of Flash ActionScript impressively considering the time constraints. I was busy gasbagging during the next session so I missed most of Jeremy Yuille’s session, but what I heard was useful. Flash gaming with Patrick Thiel and Ashley Ringrose was funny and inspiring, with both speakers running through a variety of tips and tricks they’d gathered during their Flash career.
Day 2 brought a great interview with Jeremy Allaire on the Future Of Flash, and it’s a bright future indeed. Jeremy took us through existing developments using Flash on pocket PCs and spoke about just a few of the exiting mediums which Flash is yet to penetrate. This was one of my favourite sessions.
Interface Design and Usability with David and Keran was really useful, even for an old hand like me. Having never (literally) worked on a Mac, David taught me a few things which will change the way I design my own sites. No pop ups period! Much of what was discussed was common-sense but it needed discussion because many people aren’t using their common-sense in design nowadays :)
Flash And Marketing was fun. Ian MacDonald ( http://www.amnesia.com.au ) is my new creative idle. He made the session intriguing, funny and fun, using Flash in his presentation to great advantage. The topics covered were pretty specific to big business but the fact that it dealt with interactive advertising in the way of games kept me interested throughout.
Mark’s 100% Badass session took us back to the beginning and reminded me why I got into this business in the first place.
Flash Gaming was great fun also and covered many interesting issues. I would have loved for that session to go for a few hours, but what we did see and hear was great.
Finally, Patrick asserted his authority by unveiling his latest gaming masterpiece. Just for the amount of time and effort that went into it he deserved an award but the working version he showed us was awesome!
The rest of the time not outlined above, including several hours during the Cocktail Reception, was spent making new friends and putting faces to names. I’ve gone on a bit here, so I’ll shut up now. Suffice to say it was heaps of fun and I’ll hope to see you all there next year!
I flew into Sydney (Australia) on Wednesday and spent a while meandering about the city, looking for Centre Point Tower.
Thursday was Day 1 and I rocked up at 8.30am to register, received my little name-tag and party-pack and started mingling. For me, the mingling opportunity made the whole conference worthwhile. How often do you have a chance to meet up with 400 or so likeminded professionals? Not often enough!
At the Welcome Note and Breakfast, Mark and Mike introduced themselves and gave us an idea of what to expect over the next 48 hours. Mark also gave us some FlashKit site traffic statistics that would make your mouth water.
The ActionScript & Adavanced Flash Features session, with David and Rasheed covered the OO nature of Flash ActionScript impressively considering the time constraints. I was busy gasbagging during the next session so I missed most of Jeremy Yuille’s session, but what I heard was useful. Flash gaming with Patrick Thiel and Ashley Ringrose was funny and inspiring, with both speakers running through a variety of tips and tricks they’d gathered during their Flash career.
Day 2 brought a great interview with Jeremy Allaire on the Future Of Flash, and it’s a bright future indeed. Jeremy took us through existing developments using Flash on pocket PCs and spoke about just a few of the exiting mediums which Flash is yet to penetrate. This was one of my favourite sessions.
Interface Design and Usability with David and Keran was really useful, even for an old hand like me. Having never (literally) worked on a Mac, David taught me a few things which will change the way I design my own sites. No pop ups period! Much of what was discussed was common-sense but it needed discussion because many people aren’t using their common-sense in design nowadays :)
Flash And Marketing was fun. Ian MacDonald ( http://www.amnesia.com.au ) is my new creative idle. He made the session intriguing, funny and fun, using Flash in his presentation to great advantage. The topics covered were pretty specific to big business but the fact that it dealt with interactive advertising in the way of games kept me interested throughout.
Mark’s 100% Badass session took us back to the beginning and reminded me why I got into this business in the first place.
Flash Gaming was great fun also and covered many interesting issues. I would have loved for that session to go for a few hours, but what we did see and hear was great.
Finally, Patrick asserted his authority by unveiling his latest gaming masterpiece. Just for the amount of time and effort that went into it he deserved an award but the working version he showed us was awesome!
The rest of the time not outlined above, including several hours during the Cocktail Reception, was spent making new friends and putting faces to names. I’ve gone on a bit here, so I’ll shut up now. Suffice to say it was heaps of fun and I’ll hope to see you all there next year!