London Flash Platform User Group

Tue, 21 February, 2012 - 12:49:09

This Thursday (23rd Feb) I will be attending the London Flash Platform User Group meetup. Mike Chambers will be talking about the future of Flashincluding recent changes to the Flash platform and how the player and the actionscript language will evolve in the future. I personally see the focus continue to shift to gaming. The majority of web designers seem to shun Flash, especially with the emergence of CCS3 and HTML5. Yet at the same time we are seeing new developments on the gaming side of Flash with the use of Unreal and other 3d engines in web and mobile games. I expect to hear the evenings second presenter talk alot about this. I have been following Lee Brimelow and his work for years now, via his FlashBlog, his gotoAndLearn tutorials and on Twitter. It was one of his tweets that first made me aware of the event in fact.
I'm looking forward to meeting some other Flash Developers and seeing what I can learn from them. It should be a great experience. Plus, there's always the chance I might win the Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection!