addChild("Hugo")
I have become the father of a son. :) Check out a small clip here, of him lying around doing whatever they do.
2007-06-27

32k swf compo - results
The results from the 32k swf competition are in, they can be found here. The result is from both the online voting and the voting at Icons07.
2007-02-25

32k swf competition
There have been a 32k swf competition over at flashscene.org. Head over there and check out the entries and vote for my lame entry :P, or whoever you think should win. I have an idea of which entry will win anyway :) (Hint: starts with an A... that was just great stuff!)
Was great fun making it though, although I guess I should have used AS3/Flash9 instead of Flash8.
2007-02-02

Merry christmas 2006
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all you people out there. Itīs been a busy year for me at work, and we have done some fun projects, won some awards and so on... Hope next year will be just as much fun.

Some yearly statistics, about 2 million vistors this year, around 130 gb of data has been transfered. So itīs been a little less traffic this year, could be due to the lack of new games :) what do I now?

I always hope to get time to do some 'new' games, got some ideas written down, just waiting to be done. But I somehow doubt that will happen soon. :P Cheers to everyone out there!
2006-12-23

flvPlayer
Iīve uploaded a beta of a simple YouTube style FLV player. Itīs meant to be small and hopefully easy to implement. I tried to keep the features simple and not bloat it to much.
Might be useful for someone out there, itīs free to use for anything by anyone :). I might release the source or make it skinnable in the future.
2006-12-10

Online Ansi Reader
Continuing on the ascii art track, Iīve published an Online Ansi Reader aswell. Made this one in Flash8 with the bitmap stuff.
Check it out and download it here.

More information about ansi-files can be found here.
2006-10-13

Online Nfo Reader
Iīve made an Online Nfo Reader for a friend of mine. I decided to release it for anyone to use, maybe someone else also founds it useful...
Check it out here, any suggestions for more features are welcome.

More information about nfo-files can be found here.
2006-09-25

Mod player in Flash 9
André Michelle have developed a modplayer in Flash 9, called 8bitboy(preview). Itīs not done yet, but it looks incredibly cool so far.
The mod format was originally developed for the Amiga, read more about it on wikipedia. This essentially means we can create soundeffects etc. on the fly in Flash 9, among other things. Looking forward to try it out when itīs finished.
2006-08-10

Go Sweden!
WM 2006 Webflags by André Michelle, from Germany ;)
Edit: Well, that didnīt help the Swedish team much :) Gongratulations to Germany! Iīm cheering for Brazil now, since they are the most fun to watch.
2006-06-23

Merry christmas 2005
Iīd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Itīs been a fun a year with Flash 8 being released and all, looking forwards to see what 2006 brings.
Some statistics, a little over 3 million vistors this year, about 190 gb of data has been transfered.
To those who have written mails and havenīt gotten any answer.. ;( Iīm very sorry. Most of the time I donīt have time answer or even read all of them, but thanks anyway. Itīs just pure luck if you happen to send it at a point when I have time to answer.. Sorry again. Cheers everybody out there!
2005-12-23

Early Flash 8 tests
I have posted some of my early Flash 8 tests in the examples section. Havenīt been able to play around as much I wanted to though...
The bitmapdata api is what really could change some approaches to making games, damn cool stuff.
2005-10-08

New flashgame blog
Flashgamer is new blog by Jensa from Flashmagazine. "I'll post cool Flash Games that I find, personal opinions and small reviews on various games I play and maybe some Flash code snippets / rants."
I hope to see some nice things :) Make it a bookmark.
2005-09-23

Flash 8 released
With a bunch of new cool features, Flash 8 has finally been released to the masses. Bitmap control, filters, better text rendering, file reference handling, bitmap cache and a geometry object are some of the many new features. Order here, or get the 30 day trial.
2005-09-13

Mochibot
More than a month old news, just forgot to write about it. "MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web.". Perfect if you want to spread your games to the world, but still be able to keep track of them.

When I can find some time, Iīm gonna implement this in some of my games and encourage people to spread and host them. Great work, MochiBot.
2005-09-12

Ok, just one new game...
Had some sparetime this weekend, so I made a remake of one of Oskar van Deventer's awesome puzzles. Itīs called Threesome. You control three players who have to work together to exit a maze. Have a try.
2005-09-11

Much work - no time for games :(
Havenīt had much time to play around and make any games lately, been busy at work and probably will be for some time. We launched our new portfolio site a few days ago by the way. One flash version and one html version.
2005-08-27

Traffic problems
Been having some traffic problems with the site, so itīs been down for a week or so. But now itīs back again.
Havenīt been doing much games lately, been busy with my new job. And learning MX2004 ;) Things have certainly changed since Flash5, not always to the better. They should bundle an extra screen with it, so youīll have room for all those panels... :D
2005-03-03

Back to Flash
As of next year(2005), I will be working full time as a flash programmer again ;)
I will be joining North Kingdom. A small, very talented web agency consisting of a few people I have worked with before.

I donīt think I will be coding many games though. Mostly websites I guess, which is also fun. So wish me luck! :-)
2004-12-28

Merry X-mas and a Happy new year
Iīd like to wish you all a Merry christmas and a happy new year! Have bought myself an early christmas present... :) A Gba sp classic nes with a Flash card(has nothing to do with Macromedia Flash).
So Iīm gonna try and develop some simple games for it when I get chance ;)

A little statistics. Have had more than 4 million hits so far this year, more than 2 million of them were in December. About 70 gb of data was transfered. Reflex seemed to be the most popular game, about 800 000 hits. Big thanks to Moxiecode for hosting the site!
2004-12-23

A couple of simple games
Have made a couple of simple games. First up was a dice game, Dice Poker(called Yatzy in swedish). Hadnīt done anything with dices before so that was fun. A game like that should be Multiplayer though..
Second one was BlackOut, a classic simple puzzle game. Have had it on my HD for quite some time, but never gotten around to finish it until now. Thereīs always plenty of unfinished stuff, canīt be arsed to to graphics for them...
2004-12-19

Fun Cup
Andre' Michelle have made a new game engine for a rotating isometric cargame. Looks damn impressive! Try it out here! Nice work as always.. ;)
2004-11-20

New game - RefleX
Have made another remake. This time of great little puzzle game called Reflexion. Hadnīt done anything in quite a while, so it was fun! Try it out.
2004-10-31

Abandonware
Found a really cool site with a bunch of old games I used to play :) Has a lot of the old Sierra adventures. Played through Space Quest II(Ega version) this weekend, great fun! I can also recommend "Pushover", under Puzzle... Go visit: Abandonia.com.
2004-10-06

Small director test
Did a small tile engine test in director a while back. Just to get an idea of much faster than flash it would be.. Tile engine test.
2004-09-02

Redesign
New package, same shit inside... Almost two years since the last redesign of the site, so it was about time ;)
Hadnīt done any html since last time, so that was.. erm.. interesting. I havenīt browser checked it, so it could look like sheit in browsers other than IE.
Iīm gonna try and clean up the content some time soon.. Let me know if anything dosenīt work!
2004-08-29

Physics tutorial
Stumbled across a great physics tutorial by Metanet, creators of the great Flash game called 'N'. Just had a quick glance, and it seems very impressive... Great work! Have a look.
2004-06-29

New game - Blockdude
Have made a new game called Blockdude, another remake a great TI-83 game. Have also been playing with FlashMX a little and made this: Pacman with perspective, not really a game but more of a test...
2004-06-06

A couple of games
Have made a couple of new puzzle games. First up was D-star, from the TI-83 calculator. Then it was Double Maze, remake of a great shockwave game. And finally a remake of a Java game called Eliminator. It was fun to script a little now again, although I was a bit rusty ;)
2004-04-24

[OT] Life goes on...
Long time since I last wrote something here. Iīve been busy with other stuff in "real life". Working... and I bought myself a house(!), been busy renovating(only indoors so far). Moving, girlfriend and a bunch of other things have been taking my time.
So I havenīt been "Flashing" that much lately.. But now I finally got a broadband connection(2.5mBit) instead of my horrible 56k modem. Therefor Iīm hoping to get back into Flash a little bit.
Hereīs some unfinished stuff though, some old style scrolls, a new mario engine(arrowkeys, space, z), car physics(arrowkeys) and a metroid test(arrowkeys, space).
2004-03-14

Flashkit "membersī choice Game Awards 2003!"
The members over at the Flashkit Games forum are having "competition", where any member can nominate a "game" in a number of different categories. Candidates can be nominated until January 1st, members can then vote for a week. Please go check it out! Looks like great stuff...
2003-12-27

Tile tutorials by tonypa
Tonypa, veteran member of the Flashkit games forum, has made a whole bunch of tutorials about tilegames in flash. They are somewhat based on my shit, but they are more up to date codewise(flashMX and newer). They seem to be very well written, so I recommend everyone to go read them! Great work Tony :)
2003-09-16

Head over heels - remake(not flash)
A little off topic, but this remake must be one of the coolest Iīve seen. Head over heels was and still is a very great game. Check out those screenshots, looks damn good. Canīt wait for the realese...
2003-08-13

Webbased game article
I read this article, written by Director-wizard Charles Forman(setpixel.com), a while ago. Itīs really good reading and very true! Read...
2003-08-05

Z-mapping
Really cool thread over at Flashkit about an old technique called z-mapping(Nintendo called it mode7, I think?). Useful for making games like Mariokart...
Thereīs some pretty cool examples from different people, be sure to check them out.
2003-07-01

GoToAndPlay
GoToAndPlay is a new "Flash-gaming-community". A great initative, I think. The site looks very fresh, nice and clean.
Itīs a little low on content at the moment but it just launched, so thatīs understandable. They also launched a Bomberman clone, which looks very nice.
So check it out. (Thanks Marco)
2003-07-01

Lost Vikings demo
Blizzard Entertainment have realesed a mighty cool flash demo to push the launch of the classic game Lost Vikings for the Gba. Itīs probably old news, but still very cool :)
2003-05-06

Whizzball
Whizzball, a pretty cool isometric puzzle game by Andries Odendaal(Corrected: Sumona). The objective is to get a marble to the goal with the help of different tile-pieces. You can also design your own levels. It's great to see stuff like this beeing made in flash :).
2003-04-21

Line of sight
Andre Michelle have been doing some nice algorithms for tile games. First there's a "Line of sight" algorithm, which looks great. Also there's a "Key catcher", that you might find useful. Check out his site, lots of cool stuff.
2003-04-13

New hosting
My good friends at Moxiecode Systems have been so kind to offer me to host this site at their dev-server. Many thanks! The old url-forwarding will still work of course, "outsideofsociety.idz.net" that is, but it will be forwarded to http://oos.moxiecode.com instead.

The old one: "w1.910.telia.com/~u91024173" will be closed down eventually.
So letīs hope it works ok, and please let me know if you found some broken links or anything like that.
2003-02-22

Finalists FF 2003
These are the finalists in the game category for FlashForward 2003:
Jingleballs
Flyguy
Law & Order
Battle of Sudan
Havenīt played any of them, since their loading time sucks ass when youīre on 56k... But Iīm sure theyīre great.
2003-02-15

New blog about games
Games Bond is a new blog that focuses on flash and shockwave games. Which I think is great, have really missed that among all the blogs that exists nowadays.
2003-01-16

Scroll in 4 directions.
I recieve a lot of mails from people who canīt seem to figure out how to make a tilemap scroll in all four directions. So hereīs an old test-file that might help.
2003-01-08

Merry Christmas!
Iīd like to wish you all a Merry christmas and a Happy new year! Time to chill out for a while...
2002-12-21

Nice puzzle game
A pretty cool puzzle game. Damn hard to solve some of them though ;)
2002-12-14

SciTE|Flash 1.0
Seems like a nice and powerful as-editor. I think Iīm gonna try it out for a while...
Via Quasimondo.
2002-11-29

Dinky Bomb
Damn cool flash multiplayer game, check it out here. Kinda like Worms or the old Scorched Earth, but not quite as advanced, but still very fun.
2002-11-24

New beta player fixes bitmap distortion
Macromedia has released a new beta of the flash player(6.0.60.65). With this version the old and annoying bitmap distortion/bitmap shift bug, should finally have been fixed.
I havenīt tried it to see for myself. You can read the release notes here.
2002-11-10

Small redesign + News = new Object()
I have given the site a small face lift, just felt it was about time. New is also this small section called "News" in lack of a better word.
I do not intend to make it in to another blog. Iīll just try to post stuff that I find interesting and releated to gamedev in flash. Donīt expect it to be updated very often.
2002-11-08