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We just open-sourced our Ethereum blockchain in-app purchase solution, after 6 months of writing and testing the contracts and front end to support the functionality.
The goal is to allow game development teams to avoid building their own system for in-app purchases when instead they could be devoting that effort to making a ...
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As you may know, we’ve been working steadily for sometime toward achieving a platform to allow musicians and developers to create awesome visual accompanyment to their sonic creations, with an end goal of outputting video and uploading it to YouTube and other services.
Recently we reached a milestone where developers could begin evaluating the system by creating plugins ...
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Since mid-2016, in between client projects, we’ve been laboring away on Sinewav3. Things have changed dramatically since our last report.
In case you missed it, Sinewav3 is a music visualizer for artists that runs in the browser and is powered by WebGL and Web Audio API. It will allow ...
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My interest in animation and music visualization goes way back. In the early 90’s, I worked on shows for the Bays Mountain Planetarium, producing soundtracks, introducing their artists to Autodesk Animator, and even creating music-synced laser visuals on the dome for their popular Star Fest show. I worked as an animator at ZFx, Inc until the ...
Immerse or Die is a tough-love book review project begun by Canadian author and editor Jefferson Smith. Page Fight, this reader-reaction companion app, is a collaboration between Jefferson and Futurescale. He was the consulting editor for our publishing venture’s first release, and came up with the idea for the project.
Together, ...
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For a recent project, we needed to send various types of user feedback to corresponding Slack channels from a single page HTML5 app.
Since Slack webhook endpoints must be hidden, this can’t be done directly from the browser without revealing that URL and inviting spammers to flood the Slack channels.
The application was not running a traditional backend, but rather being served statically ...
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While they’re never exciting to code, it’s a fact that most non-trivial web applications need a user profile management module.
And today, that usually entails implementing OAuth authentication from at least one of the big social networks, since users increasingly choose to place trust with their identity in Facebook over some random website.
Anyone who has plumbed the ...
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Every entrepreneur needs to walk away from a few smoking craters. It builds character and informs the next endeavor. In that spirit, we offer this post-mortem of our Zarqon Active License Control System.
In early 2009, the future of Adobe Flex and Air was bright. The platform had matured, and the possibility of a single codebase for desktop, mobile, ...
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From Startup to Mastery, We Wrote the Book on PureMVC
Futurescale is pleased to announce the publication of ActionScript Developer’s Guide to PureMVC by O’Reilly Media.
Written by Cliff Hall, Futurescale’s founder and CEO, this book teaches the fundamentals of development with PureMVC, the popular open source framework for developing maintainable applications with a Model-View-Controller architecture, in the context of a complete ...
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All work and no play makes for an extremely dull developer.
The code for this project has been posted to GitHub. It’s a great way to learn PureMVC and the PureMVC State Machine Utility.
In 2011, RIM, makers of ...
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