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Last week’s Adobe AIR Camp in Zurich was interesting, challenging, fun and exhausting at the same time: After a short introduction of Serge Jespers and Mike Downey about the new features that AIR has to offer and how to create applications with the various tools, everyone was up to develop the coolest AIR App within 24 hours.
I, for my part, tried to create a multi player game, that would connect to a Milgra based Java server. Turns out, it wasn’t the best idea to start developing my first Java application during a contest… So, sadly, when judgement minute came after 24 hours of coding, consuming engery drinks and no sleep at all I didn’t have much to show :(

At least, after a few days on the couch trying to recover from the camp, I was able to write a few lines on the Liip blog expressing a critical view on AIR’s potential.

And since I assume, winning is overrated anyway, I’ll just finish up that game in the next months and simply pretend I won that ultra smooth, super light and shiny MacBook Air … oh, crud, that’s not the same!

News just arrived that the iconomix project, Liip is heavily involved in, has been nomiated “Master of Swiss web 2008″. Find out more (and vote for it) at http://vote.liip.ch

I finally managed to set up a references page where I’ll keep track of the most interesting projects I’ve been involved in so far. For now, I merely included a selection of web projects and neglected the various software projects I contributed to as gamedesigner, illustrator, animator or - yet again - programmer. I plan to set up another page for these no lesser interesting projects in the near future.

In case you’ve been wondering why not even a single post has appeared since the (not very) exiting setup of this blog, take a look at iconomix.ch and you’ll know what I’ve been working on during the last months:

Iconomix is a rather big platform issued by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) that’s supposed to be used for educational purposes. Several interactive modules introduce the user into the magical world of economy.

As leading flash developer, I’ve been deeply involved into the development of flash-clients for two Red5 driven multi-player games and the production of dozens of custom flash components since I started working for Liip in October 2007. These in turn where used to build flash-driven multimedia courses and single-player games. So far, the biggest project I’ve been involved in.

For those of you who know German or French, check out the Liip page for more information.