Join us for a panel discussion with the developers of Starling, Away3D, and Feathers, all well-known ActionScript and Stage3D based frameworks frequently used in game development with Flash technologies. Hear their insight on the future of this field, and have an opportunity to get your own questions answered.During this session, our panelists will answer:• Where are these frameworks heading? • What other alternatives are out there? • How about collision, AI, physics, and other game engine–specific frameworks? There will also be time allotted for an audience Q&A session.

Discover WebGL and Stage3D for Adobe Flash Player, two emerging technologies in the world of 3D online game development. Join Andrew Phelps, faculty member in the Rochester Institute of Technology Game Design & Development program, as he explains how his students tackle the challenges of game design with these modern platforms.You'll hear about:• The experiences students in his program had building game engines with HTML5/WebGL and Stage3D (development, workflows, and so on)• Sample work and projects that were created during the course• The successes and failures encountered along the way

Video games are more than 40 years old, and we are starting to see repeated patterns of audience engagement. We'll show how the time between success reinforcement and the size of an audience have been linked for nearly the last 40 years. Hear from Richard Hileman, Electronic Arts chief creative director, as we explore:• How today's mobile, tablet, social, web, and console games, and new platforms like Connected TV, reflect the link between success reinforcement and audience size• How the complexity of the controller and the game serves as an audience filter over time, by impacting the learning curve of the game • How web-based platforms, combined with innovations in controlling games, can significantly boost the size of the game-playing audience

Hear how rehabstudio, a leading digital agency, created ArtCade, a unique gaming platform that lets teens scan art on packs of iD Gum to unlock, play, and share games. We'll be joined by a diverse cast of characters to share with you the production story and tricks behind:• Creating a game platform and 18 games in less than 3 months• Using Adobe Flash technology and Adobe AIR to create native apps for iOS, Android, and Facebook• Using a single codebase for web, iOS, and Android across tablet and mobile• Creating a Facebook scoring and achievement engine• Using Starling for hardware acceleration, sprite sheets, and retina support for iOS and Android

See how game developers and publishers around the world continue to push the limits of what's possible on the web and on mobile devices with the latest Adobe Flash gaming technology. You'll have the chance to see some of the newest and most innovative games delivered with Flash.Join members of the worldwide Gaming Evangelism team as they:• Showcase 10 of the most impressive desktop and mobile games from around the world• Explain the story, production process, and technology behind each game• Discuss the keys to success in a global market

Explore the exciting possibility of making a multiplayer game for multiple devices using the same codebase while maintaining desktop-like game quality. The session will be taught by two experts from Frima Studio: Jean-Philippe Doiron, principal architect R&D, and Luc Beaulieu, CTO.Join us to learn about:• The use of Stage3D across web and mobile deployments (with Adobe AIR)• The challenges encountered when attempting to maintain high-performance specifications on mobile devices • The required production pipeline and guidelines for deploying and debugging on iOS and Android • An overview of the deployment process, from start to finish• Techniques used to go from low fps for static scenes to 30+ fps for full gaming, like batching, change in render target, overdraw, native extensions, and FlasCC

Does your game need to integrate with the iOS Game Center? How about including an in-app purchasing system? Learn how to go beyond the standard ActionScript API when developing mobile games with Adobe AIR, part of the Adobe Game Developer Tools in the Adobe Creative Cloud. Come to this session to understand and learn in more detail how to:• Write your own extension using native code, and develop the ActionScript API that wraps it• Package a native extension, and reuse it during your game development• Leverage third-party native extensions available today

Join Adobe Evangelists James Li and Peter Huang as they show how to use Adobe Creative Cloud for character animation and game art design. They'll demonstrate a highly efficient workflow to create lively GPU-accelerated, interactive 2D skeletal game animations.Li and Huang will cover:• Game animation design: How to architect, design, and create game assets with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Audition• Game animation implementation: How to create skeletal animations in Adobe Flash Professional using the DragonBones design panel • Integration with a game engine: How to export your animations into texture assets in different formats for popular GPU rendering frameworks like Stage3D or cocos2d

The Oklahoma Sooner football team converted its print Gameday program to an iPad and iPhone app using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. The app heightens the reading experience through video and audio recordings of past games and extended stats and information on each player. The Sooners are leaders in re-imagining a print product on an interactive mobile device.

Join Todd Greenbaum for a quick overview on Adobe Pass Version 2, including details on some large recent events enabled by Adobe Pass, including the London Games.

Understand the concept of Parallax Scrolling and create a nice parallax background effect for the in-game screen. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Learn to build particles in the Starling framework using the Particle Extension as well as a manual method. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Create the obstacles, their artwork and Watch Out sign, and animate them randomly in the in-game screen. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Learn how text rendering works in the Starling framework, and understand the two types of fonts you can use to display text in your games. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Add food items to the in-game screen randomly and animate them, and detect collisions between the items and hero using similar techniques used for obstacles. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Animate the hero based on mouse and finger position, learn about ways of detecting collisions in games, and write the detecting logic for this game. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Write the base code needed to control the game state and hero's speed, define the idle state, add the Start button, and make the hero fly in. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Write custom events based on the Starling event and code the navigation between the Welcome screen and in-game screen. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Learn how the artwork and animation for the Hungry Hero game were built and how the sprite sheet is created using Texture Packer, then run the animation in the project. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Exploring the Image, Texture, and Button classes, this episode gives insights into building the Welcome screen of the Hungry Hero game. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Build games for web and devices using Starling framework, and take advantage of the Stage3D feature in Adobe Flash Player to hardware-accelerate your 2D games. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Steve Allison walks through the digital Olympics experiences provided by the BBC to their viewers, powered by Adobe's Project Primetime.

On June 30th at the X Games in Los Angeles, CA, Team Hot Wheels made history with one of the most daring stunts in the world: the Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare. Video editor Jeff Tober, a long time Avid and Final Cut Pro editor, and the team at Bandito Brothers filmed the stunt with a total of 36 RED EPIC, Canon DSLR, and Go Pro cameras and then edited the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro on an HPZ820 RED Edition workstation in less than three hours for posting on the Mattel website and YouTube. Watch this video to learn more about how the Hot Wheels stunt film was created and how the crew overcame the tight timeline and other challenges in this shoot.

To watch the full stunt, go to www.hotwheels.com

Order HP Z820 RED Edition Workstation from TEKSERVE or PROMAX

Download a trial of Adobe CS6 Production Premium

On June 30th at the X Games in Los Angeles, CA, Team Hot Wheels made history with one of the most daring stunts in the world: the Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare. Video editor Jeff Tober, a long time Avid and Final Cut Pro editor, and the team at Bandito Brothers filmed the stunt with a total of 36 RED EPIC, Canon DSLR, and Go Pro cameras and then edited the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro on an HPZ820 RED Edition workstation in less than three hours for posting on the Mattel website and YouTube. Watch this video to learn more about how the Hot Wheels stunt film was created and how the crew overcame the tight timeline and other challenges in this shoot.

To watch the full stunt, go to www.hotwheels.com

Order HP Z820 RED Edition Workstation from TEKSERVE or PROMAX

Download a trial of Adobe CS6 Production Premium

On June 30th at the X Games in Los Angeles, CA, Team Hot Wheels made history with one of the most daring stunts in the world: the Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare. Video editor Jeff Tober, a long time Avid and Final Cut Pro editor, and the team at Bandito Brothers filmed the stunt with a total of 36 RED EPIC, Canon DSLR, and Go Pro cameras and then edited the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro on an HPZ820 RED Edition workstation in less than three hours for posting on the Mattel website and YouTube. Watch this video to learn more about how the Hot Wheels stunt film was created and how the crew overcame the tight timeline and other challenges in this shoot.

To watch the full stunt, go to www.hotwheels.com

Order HP Z820 RED Edition Workstation from TEKSERVE or PROMAX

Download a trial of Adobe CS6 Production Premium

On June 30th at the X Games in Los Angeles, CA, Team Hot Wheels made history with one of the most daring stunts in the world: the Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare. Video editor Jeff Tober, a long time Avid and Final Cut Pro editor, and the team at Bandito Brothers filmed the stunt with a total of 36 RED EPIC, Canon DSLR, and Go Pro cameras and then edited the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro on an HPZ820 RED Edition workstation in less than three hours for posting on the Mattel website and YouTube. Watch this video to learn more about how the Hot Wheels stunt film was created and how the crew overcame the tight timeline and other challenges in this shoot.

To watch the full stunt, go to www.hotwheels.com

Order HP Z820 RED Edition Workstation from TEKSERVE or PROMAX

Download a trial of Adobe CS6 Production Premium

Game developers talk about why they love developing games in Flash: easy workflow, maximum exposure, rapid prototyping, ubiquity of experience across devices, Stage 3D, graphics acceleration, and the ability to distribute to multiple platforms.

Senior Product Manager Tom Barclay covers the workflow for designing game assets and animation using the Adobe Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS.

Tom Barclay continues his exploration of Toolkit for CreateJS, showing developers how to leverage the open source libraries that the framework offers to support adding interactivity to projects.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Gaming Solutions Architect Allen Ellison catches up with Luke Lam of PlayJam to demonstrate PlayJam's popular games on a TV console, and use an iPhone to act as a control device. (Learn more about building TV games and apps.)

Lee Brimelow and Thibault Imbert discuss the enhanced graphics rendering engine and the Stage3D API, enabling developers to port their Flash games to mobile with up to 60 frames per second.

Lee Brimelow and Tom Nguyen highlight an array of new browser-and-device-friendly features in Flash Player 11.2 such as silent background updates, multi-threaded decoding for video, and mobile stage 3D, which delivers optimized performance for game development.

In this demo, Yuki Shimizu shows how the completed game appears when played on a Motorola Droid X phone. (Click the HTML Text link to read the article.)

Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice introduces Adobe AIR with captive runtime support which will provide seamless compatibility for your desktop applications built with Flash Builder.

Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice covers Adobe AIR with captive runtime support for mobile application development, which will benefit your Flash Builder projects for Android OS. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Paul Gubbay, Adobe VP of Engineering, Web & Interactive, demonstrates new innovations in Adobe tools to create and output HTML5 content for any screen.

Senior Research Scientist, Mira Dontcheva, demonstrates two games that try to help users learn how to use Photoshop. Try Level Up and tell us what you think.

Come to this session to learn the best techniques to create 2D Adobe Flash technology–based games for the consumer TV space. With the introduction of Adobe AIR for the digital home, game developers using Flash can now expand their work to yet another platform, while reusing the same code base and tools (Flash Professional CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5.1, and so on). Paul Clancy, lead developer at PlayJam, will talk in depth about TV game types, screen constraints, input methods, best practices, publishing, and distribution. Don't miss the opportunity to take your games to the big screen.

Learn how to analyze, benchmark, and improve the results of games built with Flash technology. Hear Mike Hawkyard from 4T2 Multimedia explain how game design and tracking procedures can be combined to produce enhanced commercial results for global brands.

Take a critical look at the game interface, the part that most players fail to acknowledge but that provides information to facilitate game flow and can add to the overall immersive gaming experience. This session will delve into several topics, such as why graphical interfaces are key in game design, how to avoid overloading your players with too much information or visual clutter, and best design practices and tips.

Join Tom Nguyen and Thibault Imbert, product managers for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes, for a deep dive into all the new features introduced in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. The web is going to change, and this session will show you how to be prepared.

Be sure to attend this session if you want to know more about how to use Adobe Alchemy in real projects. Alchemy enables the conversion of C and C++ code into high-performance ActionScript bytecode for use in Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR applications.

Find out how to code a game that performs up to the user's expectations. One key advantage of Adobe Flash is the ability to publish your games across multiple devices while maintaining a single code base. Come to this session to discover several tips and tricks that help maintain performance across each operating system. Important game development techniques, such as blitting, upscaling assets across different screen resolutions, sprite sheets, and bitmap caching, will also be discussed.

Stage 3D introduction in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR lets you use techniques such as deferred lighting, screen space dynamic shadow, MRT, and more through vertex and fragment shaders. Join Jean-Philippe Doiron, Principal Architect R&D at Frima Studio, and Jean-Philippe Auclair, R&D Architect, for a deep dive into GPU programming with the new Flash Player, and discover how to produce beautiful GPU effects that are reusable in your games and applications.

Get a preview of the new 3D capabilities (Molehill) in Adobe Flash Player. Thibault Imbert, product manager for the Adobe Flash runtimes, and Luc Beaulieu, CTO at Frima Studio, will showcase what can be done with Molehill using many examples. They'll also share their thoughts about how it will change online gaming in the years to come. This session demonstrates the full potential of Molehill, both technical and artistic.

Join developer Jesse Freeman to get insight into how to take advantage of blitting in desktop, web, and mobile Flash apps. With over seven years of experience developing in Adobe Flash, Freeman has worked for VW, Tommy Hilfiger, Heavy, MLB, the New York Jets, HBO, and many more. By looking at real-world examples of blitting such as The Johnny Cash Project, HBO.com, and others, you'll get a better understanding of how to use blitting techniques in your own projects.

Join experts from Adobe and the Amazon Web Services team to discover how to leverage the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) running Adobe Flash Media Server on AWS. Flash Media Server on AWS can be used for high- or low-volume media streaming and social applications such as video chat or multiplayer games. Learn how to configure the Flash Media Server AMI for HTTP video streaming and connect to the Amazon CloudFront CDN. Hear about the options available, tips and tricks from the experts, and new features and functions that will be available later in 2011.

Learn how to use Stage 3D (aka "Molehill"), the new low-level GPU-accelerated APIs in Adobe Flash Player, to develop high-performance 2D games. Thibault Imbert, product manager for the Adobe Flash runtimes, will explore these new APIs and their usage inside game frameworks and engines. Stage 3D is going to change the web for 2D and 3D gaming, and this session will show how to make the most of it.

Emmy Huang, Group Product Manager, Adobe Gaming Solutions, demonstrates how Adobe is driving a new generation of gaming and other immersive experiences on the Web. Danny Winokur provides a wrap-up to the Day 2 keynote.

Join Nicholas Kwiatkowski, leader of the Michigan Flex User Group, on an Adobe Flash Platform and hardware interactions adventure. Discover how devices like Microsoft Kinect and the Arduino prototyping board can bring Flash into the physical world. In this session, you'll learn how to integrate your Flex and Adobe AIR applications with physical hardware for an impressive combination of technologies.

Take a dive deep into the techniques required to build the best games. Building games is fun, but building them well takes skill and experience. Ben Garney, core Flash architect at Push Button Engine and one of the most well-known names in the Adobe Flash gaming industry, will put some powerful tools into your game development toolkit: finite state machines, numerical simulation, components, data-driven definitions, and more. Build better, more interesting games faster and with less risk.

Join Tom Nguyen and Thibault Imbert, product managers for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes, for a deep dive into all the new features introduced in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. The web is going to change, and this session will show you how to b

Learn more about how to build the next generation of action games with new the Flash Stage 3D API. This session will cover the key steps required to create an advanced first-person shooter gameplay, such as creating a scene and adding a person, movement, shooting, camera following, animations, and more, all in the context of 3D.

Content providers can take advantage of Adobe AIR to deliver console-quality games, rich media apps with premium video across televisions, Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes. Take a look at successful AIR apps for iOS.

Learn from the Flash Player team how this new innovative feature in Flash Player will change how developers use 3D on the web and change the landscape of 2D and 3D game development.

Senior Technical Evangelist Greg Wilson showcases two popular games, Mr. Mixit and Pyramix, both developed in Flash Builder and Flex and available on Android, BlackBerry PlayBook, and iOS devices.

Paul Trani demonstrates how, using Flash Professional, you can create a simple voice-controlled game that uses data from the microphone of a mobile device to move graphics.

Platform Evangelist Tomas Krcha discusses the challenges and opportunities of user interaction in a 3D environment. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

A group project which was created with the idea of "gender identity" in mind. A classic spin on the old idea of "girls can do anything boys can do," this project show that not only can girls play football, but in some cases, they can play it even better than a boy can! The style of black & white video along with ragtime music, and title cards is meant to evoke the early silent film era.

Platform Evangelist Tomas Krcha introduces the basics of 3D in Flash with a demonstration of the Alternativa 3D Platform Engine. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

What is the role of Flash in 3D game development? Adobe’s Tomas Krcha and Chris Allen from Infrared5 give an overview at Flash in The Can 2011 (FITC) in Amsterdam.

Terry Paton, leading Australian indie Flash game developer, shares what inspires him about creating and working with the global Flash community.

Adobe Product Manager, designer, and developer geek Doug Winnie discusses (and acts out) the most common designer/ developer issues, and offers predictions on how Adobe will help ease the pain in 2011.

In this video, Managing Editor Julie Campagna interviews Product Manager Aditya Bansod about Adobe AIR for TV, a tuned and optimized version of AIR that is designed to work on TV hardware.

Learn the tools of the trade for creating great games for the Adobe Flash Platform, including enhancing the fun factor, optimizing performance, and deploying across devices. John Say and his team at Say Design have enjoyed the excitement and rewards of building a wide variety of games over the last ten years using the Flash Platform. From the web to mobile to kiosks, they have delivered games on almost every device enabled for the Flash Platform. Catch up on their latest tips and tricks for Flash Player on mobile.

Learn how you can leverage peer-to-peer communication in Adobe Flash Player to enable multiplayer games on Facebook. This session will include an in-depth tutorial on peer-to-peer technology, a demo of how to use peer to peer in your games with Adobe Flash Builder and Flash Professional CS5, and deployment on the Facebook platform.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about the migration of games to multiscreen and how Adobe is helping to enable this innovation within Flash Player.

Join Adobe Platform Evangelist Renaun Erickson to learn how to develop, optimize, and deploy an Adobe AIR game on the Android mobile platform. Get the lowdown on using features like gestures, touch, bitmap transformations, and peer-to-peer networking to take your game to the next level on mobile devices. Sample code will be available to participants after the session.

Learn how to develop games based on Flash technology and the open source PushButton Engine. PushButton Engine is a framework that's designed for creating a new generation of games for Flash. PushButton Engine not only makes it easy to build great games, but it also allows the development of new functionality and components to improve the world of gaming for everyone thanks to its open source nature.

Principal Product Manager Aditya Bansod shows games and HD video running on Adobe AIR for TV.

Using Adobe CS5 and the Adobe Flash Platform, Trigger delivers an action-packed multi-screen gaming experience for Sony Pictures’ The Green Hornet.

As part of an Adobe Youth Voices public service announcement project, students in Robin Lambert's and Patty Smith's classes explored a variety of topics important to them and produced over 20 PSAs on stereotypes, depression, gangs, the environment, and other subjects.

Kongregate and its developer community leverage Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to bring online games to Android devices.

Nate Beck from Universal Mind takes you through the basics of game development on the Flash Platform. From setting up development environments to the basics of game development using the open source PushButton game engine.

From gaming sites to mapping apps, Adobe Platform Evangelist Mark Doherty demos a bunch of websites that have been optimized for Flash Player 10.1.

More than two million teenage girls have explored the virtual world of Spark City--shopping in its malls, interacting with other members, and participating in a futuristic economy. The game was created using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Agency Republic's Killzone 2 Webgame draws gamers into the world of multi-player shooter games with a teaser campaign of surprise "attacks" while surfing the Internet. The online game was created using several Creative Suite 4 Master Collection components, including After Effects CS4.

Adrian Ludwig demos various games from Armor Games and Miniclip.com with Flash Player 10.1 on Palm webOS using the Palm Pre.

Doug creates a virtual-dice game to incorporate basic game behaviors using random chance into loops, and then shows how to use the break statement and the if statement.

In this video, former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase takes a look at some of the techniques used in gaming consoles to achieve highly interactive and fun user experiences.

Learn the secrets and tools of the trade for creating great games with Flash Professional, including honing the fun factor, performance optimizations, and cross-platform/device strategies.

Get an overview of the latest developments in the Flash Platform relevant to casual and social gaming. You will get a firsthand look at some fun and innovative games from top publishers as well as insight into how these games were made.

Colin Smith shows you how to create a plastic, squishy text effect. This is similar to what you may see on a video game box. These types of effects are a lot of fun to play around with and will stretch your creativity.