Posts Tagged ‘ Tools ’

Alcon 3 Preview

  • August 21st, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

Since so many of you (well, at least four people) are feverishly waiting for the release of Alcon 3 here’s a preview screenshot to comfort your waiting time. The shot shows Alcon’s trace output panel with some bogus Array being traced iteratively and as a hex dump. the top of the window displays Alcon’s new [ READ MORE ]

AIR application: FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)

  • August 29th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

I finally came to play a bit more with AIR and it’s specific features and wrote a small tool that is helpful for freelancers like you and me to make pricing estimation calculations. With FEAT you can calculate your hourly rate based on your expenses and some other factors and it provides a wizard to [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 2.0 Public Beta released

  • April 29th, 2007
  • Posted in Dev

I’m happy to announce that Alcon 2.0 has finally been made public. The new version was completely rewritten using ActionScript 3 and Flex 2 and contains several new features that I missed in version 1. The most significant additions are the following: - Output of up to four log files. You can define which log files [ READ MORE ]

Tools of the Trade Part 5: Filter Forge

Filter Forge is a new software for Windows that allows creating Photoshop filters in a tree node based editor. Yep, thats right! You design filters by connecting components together with virtual wires. Imagine the possibilities! The application ships with a standalone tool as well as a Photoshop PlugIn and after you played around a bit [ READ MORE ]

Tools of the Trade Part 4: Console

  • November 21st, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

This is not really a true productivity tool but I think it has enough value that it deserves to be mentioned. If you’re on Windows and work with the Command Prompt a lot, you might be fed up with the overly dull look of the black Windows command console and you look over to the [ READ MORE ]

Tools of the Nuisance Part 1: XMLSpy

  • November 18th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

If you’re working with XML on Windows and you like your tool full-featured there’s a good chance that you have worked with Altova XMLSpy, a first of all very good and powerful XML editor but on second look becomes a nasty bugger that calls home as if there is no tomorrow. Thats fine and good! Let [ READ MORE ]

Tools Of The Trade Part 3: FreeMind

  • July 24th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

In my book “How to become a Flash Game Developer of World Class” I surely will not forget to mention this useful tool … FreeMind, a Mind Mapping tool that is not only free but also very intuitive! It is written in Java and therefore available for all common Platforms. Where other Mind Mapping tools [ READ MORE ]

Alcon v1.0.8 – Added AS3.0 Support

  • July 12th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

I’ve updated Alcon (ActionScript Logging Console) to v1.0.8! The only thing that has been added in this version is a Debug Class for use with ActionScript 3.0, everything else hasn’t been changed. The AS3.0 Debug Class can be found in the com.hexagonstar.util.debug package. Note that you must use Debug.trace() since I’m not even sure if it’s [ READ MORE ]

mdm Rebus – Turning AS3/Flex2 applications into .NET2 executables

  • July 1st, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

mdm is working on a new tool named Rebus that can turn AS3 (and Flex2) files into .NET2 executables. It’s still in beta but registered users can download and test it. I’ve did a quick test and compiled my SWNameGen with Rebus and it went surprisingly smooth and flawless. It will offer some new and [ READ MORE ]

Tools Of The Trade Part 2: Hi-Logic MainType

  • June 30th, 2006
  • Posted in Design

MainType is a relatively new font managing tool (for Win only) that puts Extensis Suitcase to shame! I’ve been trying Suitcase for a while but finding and activating fonts with it was a major pain in the butt. You had to dig around in the preview list on the right and then to activate the [ READ MORE ]

Flex Application: Star Wars Name Generator

I finally spend some time to make myself more familiar with the Flex 2 Beta and this is what came out as a result: Star Wars Name Generator! It’s a small and modest tool to generate random names (obviously). If you’re a fan of the Star Wars Pen & Paper Role-playing game (like me) you [ READ MORE ]

Tools Of The Trade Part 1: Alias SketchBook Pro

  • July 25th, 2005
  • Posted in Design

As a one-man-game developer of worldclass (exaggeration intended!) it’s good to have a bunch of tools at hand that help with the tasks for creating games! In this series I will introduce helpful ‘nice to have’ or even ‘must have’ tools that make a game developers/designers day easier. In this part I will cover Alias [ READ MORE ]