Comments for Gareth Jones

Comment on Why MDM Zinc V3 is so rubbish by Daniele

Daniele — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:20:32 +0000

Can’t believe it! I just discovered that all the executables I made with Zinc3 don’t work on Windows 7. They run once, then when they shut down they leave an un-destroyable process, so they can’t be started again. Ugh! I wanted to update my flash website (and also put those museum screenshots), for which I made a desktop content manager with Zinc3 ages ago, and now I’m stuck unless I want to do it manually :/

P.S. self-promoting corner: if you’re getting into Unity, I just finished a serious Tween engine: HOTween (http://hotween.holoville.com) :)

Comment on Toshiba Satellite 320CDT by Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:05:24 +0000

Thanks! I’m glad that it proved useful to someone!

Comment on Toshiba Satellite 320CDT by Mr S

Mr S — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:03:34 +0000

Nice one Gareth, your info was most helpful

Comment on Flash player 11.1 broken by DCOMsoft SWF Protector 3 by Julia Lanvin

Julia Lanvin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:53:51 +0000

Dear Gareth,

Please send your SWF file to support@dcomsoft.com , we’ll investigate your problem and do everything to solve it.

DCOMSoft team

Comment on Flash player 11.1 broken by DCOMsoft SWF Protector 3 by Martin

Martin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:16:44 +0000

That’s something Adobe should include in Flash Pro. Thanks for letting us know!

Comment on Flash player 11.1 broken by DCOMsoft SWF Protector 3 by Gareth

Gareth — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:45:17 +0000

Hi Danyal

The game wrapper I have that protects my games will email me whenever an unauthorised website tries to use one of them. You’d be surprised how many emails I get, mostly from Russian websites.

Also, there are always jobs on freelancing websites where people offer money to have certain games or applications ripped off. I see at least two every week. If those games or applications are not protected, the job is made that much easier.

Comment on Flash player 11.1 broken by DCOMsoft SWF Protector 3 by Danyal

Danyal — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:57:33 +0000

How come you’re using these products, were you having problems with people ripping off your stuff before? The developers of these things seem a bit dodgy and I’m not sure I want them near my code.

Comment on Why MDM Zinc V3 is so rubbish by Daniele

Daniele — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:28:45 +0000

Unity is kind of a mess. Buggy and with a lot of missing features. But once you learn all it’s pros and cons it becomes quite powerful. One of the main cons is that packages are not allowed, thus you can override existing classes without realizing it (I personally start all my classes names with HO, to keep them kind of unique), and that, absurdly, there is no decent tweening system (iTween is the most used one, but it sucks, compared to what we’re used to with ActionScript). One of the main pros is that it really allows you to work in team with designers, because you can easily build plugins (way easily and more quickly than Flash’s SWCs) which control everything, and which they can set as they see fit.
Oh, and a note of advice: use C#, not JavaScript. Way better :P Anyway, if you have some questions I’d gladly answer: I found it quite disconcerting to start with Unity from scratch :)

I got no screenshots of the museum here (it’s about Athanasius Kircher, quite a fun thing to do). I’ll show you one when I’m back in Rome. And the move to Serbia is simply and happily for love. Though it’s not a complete move for now: more like 3 weeks in Serbia than one in Rome. This is where I love that my job allows me to work via internet :D

Comment on Why MDM Zinc V3 is so rubbish by Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:09:28 +0000

Unity, really? I have plans to get into that as well – downloaded the engine a few weeks back but so far haven’t had a chance to do anything with it. :(

Do you have any screenshots of the museum application?

Why the move to Serbia?

Comment on Why MDM Zinc V3 is so rubbish by Daniele

Daniele — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:30:28 +0000

@Gareth
Hey :) It’s been very long. What about you? I see you’re busy with toys, and Learnalot seems to be going well? :)

Me I’m great, lots of changes here, and now I’m mainly wasting my time with Unity coding (just finished a virtual museum, and starting a game), and writing/drawing comics (plus some illustration, plus moving to Serbia, plus… oh, that’s enough). But I’m still pushing SWF Studio now and then, especially for a big app who needs monthly changes and updates: I just do the updates, publish it, and it never crashed. Hooray for Northcode.