If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch odds are you have seen or even played Pocket God. Pocket God is a neat little game that let’s you do whatever you like to a little group of pygmies. Most of the time this consists of tossing them to sharks or volcanoes though.

I was interested today by a great article over at Macenstein that talked a little bit about the Flash roots of the art. Apparently event the initial concept of the game was created in flash (albeit 1’s and 0’s for learning binary instead of pygmies).

Dave had the initial idea of pygmies on an island. It was loosely based on an educational flash project we had done a a few years ago. The objective was to pick up cute little ones and zeroes with googly eyes and put them in order to create a binary number. If you dropped them in the wrong place, they looked panicked and yelled “whoa” and dropped off the screen.

Head on over to Macenstein to read more about the process Allan Dye uses within Flash and the processes that lead to the release of the game.

I had a great time traveling out to Ohio for this year’s Spring <br /> Conference. Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions as well! My slides from my presentations are available for download here:

Intro to Flash CS4:
Presentation slides (swf – use left and right arrow keys to change slides)

Intro to Adobe AIR 1.5:
Presentation slides (swf – use left and right arrow keys to change slides)
ThemeSong AIR Application

Great Information Gleaned From Sessions I Attended
My favorite session of the day was Eric Meyer’s “JavaScript Will Save Us All”. He had some really great links in the presentation to a lot of different frameworks and I thought I would share them with you all:

JQueryUI and JSBin I also attended Richard Worth’s JQueryUI: Hands On session. I didn’t even know that JQueryUI existed – I am very excited to try it out! Here are some related links that I found beneficial from his session:

Thanks again to OU for having me at Spring <br /> this year! Hope some of these links benefit you as well.

Though a big fan of the Flash IDE, I do use Flex as my ActionScript editor from time to time. So, when I heard about Flash Builder coming out I became very interested in the direction that Adobe was taking.  I just downloaded the Flash Builder beta in order to check this bad boy out.

Have no clue as to what I am talking about? Check out Lee’s post on the subject and then head over to labs to see what Adobe cooked up for us this time.

You can visit the tutorials section for Flash Builder 4 and watch an introductory video over at Labs as well.  If you want more details you can visit the Developer Center.  Adobe recently posted in depth articles on some of the new features in the Flex Developer Center.  I’m still slightly confused as this version of Flash Builder still has MXML options in it and I thought they were making the product previously know as Flex the MXML editor and FlashBuilder the ActionScript 3 editor.  Also, we know there will be another version of the Flash Professional IDE, according to Lee Brimelow, containing an updated ActionsPanel as well.  Anyway…  Let me know what you guys think!