Merry ChristmasDec 25th category: blog | tags: xmas xbox particle flash bitmap 360
A year of hard work, and many other things. Not having my Grandmother around for the first Christmas is pretty horrible, already missing that morning call. With my other half having to work today (Luckily only 4hours!) I’m all alone for Christmas morning! Although I got a bunch of xbox360 games I could be playing so it’s not all bad 
I’ve been doing some more experiments and tests with Flash, and found (through some great advice from Sean Cooper, maker of a hit Flash game Zombie Wars) that my method of Particle creation wasn’t the best one, and in fact by purely using Bitmaps and BitmapData to draw each particle is way faster and more efficient then overlaying MovieClips! I was quite surprised but the increase is significant.
Anyway, enough talk - hope everyone has a great Christmas and New year, drink lots and enjoy the time off!
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Links to friends and sites that I read
Leezon (http://www.leezon.com)
Portfolio of my best friend Chris Gardner, an amazing photographer and also a fellow designer
Chris Tufnell (http://www.crazymac.net)
Blog of a good friend of mine that works in the games pr industry, he reviews a lot of games and shares his unbiased opinions to the world
Matt Holden (http://www.imholden.com)
Matt is an awesome pencil artist, and is moving to digital vector art more recently with the creation of his eagerly awaited comic Tamashii City!
Mazy (http://www.mazy.net)
Morten Hedegren 'mazy', is an extremely talented map designer that ive known for many years, and now works for IO Interactive in Denmark. His blog is always a good read, full of various reviews and opinons
Ryans GobLog (http://www.ryansgoblog.com/)
Ryan expresses his views on video games which makes for a good read and also does a fair bit of webby stuff too
CGTalk (http://www.cgtalk.com)
CGTalk is a huge community for extremely talented designers, ranging from all types of media medium. If you want to see how far people push digital art, here's definitely the place to go, it'll blow your mind 
Mapcore (http://www.mapcore.net)
General gaming development community site, although focused upon level design and development. Lots of really nice guys on the forums, and definitely a great place to get good constructive criticism.
456 Berea St. (http://www.456bereastreet.com)
Another great resource for articles related to web development, just like above - it's a must for your RSS reader to keep up to date with latest development technology
A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com)
A List apart is full of useful information for web designers and developers, very good articles on particular aspects which have definately answered some of my questions in the past
Addedbytes (http://www.addedbytes.com/)
Yet another great resource from a UK developer, his cheat sheets are particulary useful to have a print out of and leave on your desk!
Four-Kings (http://www.four-kings.com)
Four-Kings LTD are UK's first pro-esports team. I designed all of their clothing (pre Packard Bell sponsorship) which is worn across the globe at professional gaming events like The CPL.