Author Archives: Allen Chou

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Physics / Graphics / Procedural Animation / Visuals

Scott Pilgrim is AWESOME!

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Allen Chou

I’ve started reading Scott Pilgrim comics recently, and I had watched the movie about half a year ago, loved it :)?I also bought Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Game on PSN. The gameplay is okay, and the soundtrack is … Continue reading →

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Stardust LEET Day Demo

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Allen Chou

Genie Capital held a LEET Day contest on May 29, 2011. This contest was all about demonstrating “cool” personal projects; mine was Stardust. Everyone was given 15-20 minutes to show his project. Afterwards, each contestant voted for 3 other contestants. … Continue reading →

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Packing My Stuff

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Allen Chou

For those who don’t know. I’m going to study at DigiPen Institute of Technology for the Bachelor of Science in Game Design program. Yes, I’ve already had a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, and I’m going to go through another … Continue reading →

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Picking up My Life where I Left off

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Allen Chou

Finally, I’ve finished my one-year service in the marine last weekend, and my life has gone back to normal. No more going back to the base on Sundays, no more taking long train rides between home and base, and no … Continue reading →

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Simple Bunnyhill Demos

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Allen Chou

As you may have heard, Flash Player Incubator is available now. This means you can view Flash contents powered by the Molehill API! Yeah for GPU-accelerated Flash movies!?Richard Davey has posted an article full of awesome Flash Player 11 Molehill … Continue reading →

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Stardust Touch-Ups for Brilliant Scenic Demos

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Allen Chou

Wonderfl is a, as its name suggests, wonderful website that provides online ActionScript 3.0 compilation service, where you may post code, share code, and fork code. Recently, I’ve run into two fantastic scenery simulation demos by Yonatan, the Super Express … Continue reading →

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Bunnyhill Logo Prototype

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Allen Chou

This is what I came up with late at night in the marine base: prototype logo for Bunnyhill. This is just a prototype and is subject to change. BTW, don’t you think the gree grass part and the text look … Continue reading →

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Switch vs Strategy

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Allen Chou

Recently, I’ve been working with the blend mode feature for Bunnyhill, my upcoming 2D rending engine based on Molehill. And I’ve used strategy objects to replace what could have been written in a switch statement. I think this could be … Continue reading →

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Shader Primer

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Allen Chou

I’ve been studying shaders recently, in order to get myself prepared for shader programming with Molehill, the upcoming update to Flash Player that exposes low-level GPU-accelerated APIs. For those who are not familiar with shaders, and are also eager to … Continue reading →

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Matrix Stack and the Visitor Pattern

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Allen Chou

Scene Graphs and Scene Trees When building a scene graph framework, such as the display list in ActionScript 3.0, two types of nodes are involved: internal nodes and leaf nodes. The transformation properties (x, y, rotation, etc.) are passed down … Continue reading →

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