These last two days, I’ve participated to a small Adobe Flash contest in Annecy, named the Battle Flash (Frenchies have recurrent a tendency to reverse orders of words ). The concept is pretty simple: In a first phase, as a team composed from one to six students, you have to realise five different flash animations, each having its subject, one imposed artwork, one imposed sound or music and one imposed text. These imposed media had to be respectively used in each of ‘em, but we were allowed to modify them, providing that we kept their artistical meaning. Secondly, each team is opposed to another, like in a single-elimination tournament. Our team hadn’t done the last subject, so we couldn’t win. But, unfortunately, the first round was on the only one subject we didn’t treat, and so, we were eliminated from the beginning of this tournament, that’s sad…
Nevertheless, I was the only one coder in the team, and as such, I’ve chose what method and software we had to use to produce .swf files. I use a Linux distribution, so I couldn’t choose Flash as coding platform. I like free (and also open-source) software, and that’s why I naturally came to Adobe’s Open-Source Flex SDK. But I have been annoyed by the impossibility to debug my animations correctly. Actually, I didn’t know of the “Linux debugger and standalone players” existence… I will publish my work soon, at least for the subject I have to continue.