Lee Brimelow

Well 2012 is now in the books. For me it was a great year both personally and professionally. Personally, I finally married Giovanna after 10 years, my son Ethan is doing well in his first year of high school, and Rusty, Bea, and Harry are all doing great. Professionally, I learned a ton about game development in my new role and I also worked hard to try and help Flash developers learn more about the emerging world of HTML5 and JavaScript. It wasn’t all great though. I struggled with eating healthy and curbing my alcohol intake (I like beer). But without further adieu, here are some of my plans (aka resolutions) for 2013.

My fellow gaming evangelist Andy Hall has just released his slide deck that talks about performance tuning in Flash. There is some really great information in there to help you maximize the speed of your Flash games.

Flash performance tuning (EN) from Andy Hall

I’m sitting at the Seattle airport at the moment but I just wanted to clarify a couple of things about the announcements we made last night. Firstly we announced that we now have a partnership in place with Unity. Our teams working together will make their Flash export feature even better in the future. Big shout out to Ralph and the Unity for their awesome work on it!

The second thing we announced is a new premium feature model [...]

I am finally back home from the European tour and I wanted to let you know about all kinds of cool things that have been happening with Flash. We are in the middle of GDC right now and the buzz around Flash is really exciting. Here we go.

Stage3D on mobile is released
You’ve been waiting patiently for a long time and now it is finally here. The AIR 3.2 RC is now on the Adobe Labs site. With this you [...]

With 2012 now upon us, I thought I would jot down some advice for interactive designers and developers who are looking to have a happy and productive year. Now I’m not going to go all Tony Robbins on you, but I can guarantee you happiness, wealth, and a better-looking smile if you follow my simple plan.

Focus on the positives
With all the changes that are happening in our industry it is easy to get into a negative mindset. A good example [...]