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Unity Technologies Begins Unity 3.5 Open Beta With Flash Player Deployment

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:00:00 CST

Developers Can Now Enter the Unity "Flash in a Flash" Creation Contest With a $20,000 USD Grand Prize

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 22, 2011) - Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for game, app, simulation and interactive 3D for the web, iOS, Android, consoles and beyond, is happy to announce the release of the Unity 3.5 open beta including a developer preview for the highly anticipated Adobe� Flash� Player deployment add-on. To celebrate the sneak peek of this add-on, Unity Technologies will be hosting a Flash platform game development contest where contestants can enter their Unity-based Flash titles for the chance to win the $20,000 USD Grand Prize.

Adobe Touch Apps Available in Android Marketplace

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:00:00 CST

SAN JOSE, Calif., — Nov. 15, 2011�—�Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the�Adobe Touch Apps�in the Android Marketplace. Adobe� Touch Apps are a family of six intuitive touch screen applications, inspired by Adobe� Creative Suite� software, to bring professional-level creativity to millions of tablet users. Designed to work with both finger and stylus input, the apps address multiple areas of the creative process: Adobe� Photoshop� Touch for image editing; Adobe� Collage for moodboards; Adobe� Debut for presenting and reviewing creative work; Adobe� Ideas for sketching; Adobe� Kuler� for exploring color themes; and Adobe� Proto for web site and mobile app prototyping. Announced at MAX 2011 in October, the apps are available today for Android 3.1 or higher. Adobe Ideas is already on iOS and Adobe expects iOS versions of the other 5 apps to be available in early 2012.�

Nine Vectors announces version 1.1 of Esquimo

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:30:00 CDT

Nine Vectors is pleased to announce new version (1.1) of their main product Esquimo - application that will allow you to create the 3D animation as a SWF file played by Adobe Flash Player. The generated SWF file has its own, optimized for the purpose of efficiency - engine for the animation. Inventive ways of saving the scene allows to achieve very small output file sizes. Without the use of textures, the output file can consume a little more than 30kB. Esquimo is equipped in user-friendly GUI and does not require knowledge of AS3, causing the creation of 3D animation being at fingertips, even for novice webmasters.

iRise Announces $20,000 Developer Contest Series

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:00:00 CDT

iRise Announces $20,000 Developer Contest Series
Contest to Showcase Extensibility of Enterprise Visualization Platform

EL SEGUNDO, CA – June 2, 2011 – iRise�, the global leader in enterprise visualization solutions, today announced the “iRise iBloc Developer Challenge” contest series, with prize money totaling $20,000. Developers can extend the iRise Enterprise Visualization Platform by creating custom widgets, or iBlocs, that can be leveraged in the iRise Studio modeling environment.

MoMinis Opens Development Contest for Cross-Platform Mobile Games with $15,000 in Prizes

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:00:00 CDT

MoMinis Opens Development Contest for Cross-Platform Mobile Games with $15,000 in Prizes
Following their public launch of The MoMinis Studio,�MoMinis, a provider of cross-platform�mobile game development�and distribution tools, is teaming up with CasualGaming.biz and GetJar for the ‘GameCast’ game development contest. GameCast begins on April 28th�and offers $15,000 in total prizes plus a distribution deal for the winning creative mobile games built using the MoMinis Studio. Check out the contest at�http://gamecastcontest.com/

Grails Developers Get Productivity/Performance Boost Using WebORB for Java

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:30:00 CDT

Addison, TX, May 5, 2011 : Midnight Coders, Inc.- makers of WebORB integration server is pleased to announce its support for the Grails community having created a special integration between WebORB and the Grails framework. This integration makes it possible for apps written in the Groovy language to be rapidly integrated with various ActionScript clients (Flex, Flash and AIR), as well as, Silverlight, JavaScript, Android, (Native Java and AIR), iOS and Windows Phone 7.

CodeDrive: New Flash IDE with Faster ActionScript Compiler

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:00:00 CDT

Alexandria, VA - April 12, 2011 - iSpring Research announced CodeDrive, the professional Flash IDE with a proprietary ActionScript 3 compiler. The product is now available as a beta version and is expected to be released by September 2011.
The closed beta testing of CodeDrive AS3 compiler has shown a significant (up to 2-3 times) increase in project compilation speed in most cases, comparing to Adobe Flex SDK 3 and 4 compilers. Being designed from scratch for high performance and effective use of resources, CodeDrive ActionScript 3 compiler offers major advantages in rapid Flash development.

Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 5.5 Product Line

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:00:00 CDT

Significant Mid-Cycle Product Release Delivers Essential Innovation Across Flash, HTML5, Video, Mobile App and Digital Publishing Tools; Company Introduces New Subscription Payment Plan and Brings Tablets into Creative Workflows

SAN JOSE, Calif., — April 11, 2011 —�Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the new Adobe� Creative Suite� 5.5 product line, enabling designers and developers to target popular and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms, as the revolution in mobile communications fundamentally changes the way content is distributed and consumed. Substantive advances to HTML5, Flash authoring, digital publishing and video tools as well as new capabilities that kick-start the integration of tablets into creative workflows, anchor the new Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 product family.

Adobe has released an update for Adobe BrowserLab

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:00:00 CDT

Adobe has released an update for Adobe BrowserLab, its hosted service that allows Web designers and developers to quickly and easily preview websites in different browsers and operating systems so they can maintain design consistency and integrity across multiple screens.

TemplateMonster Launch Flash Industry Survey

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:30:00 CDT

TemplateMonster.com is conducting a Flash Technology Survey to gain a better understanding of how the Flash community use Flash.