Flashtuts+ Author - Shane Johnson

PG

Visit Shane Johnson's Website

Originally from a fine art background, it took me a while to get in to the world of digital media, but now that I have, Flash has become my tool of choice. I currently work as a freelance flash designer developer, amongst other things, and strive to create engaging and creative applications for the web.


Posts by Shane Johnson

Conquer the Universe With ActionScript 3.0 and the Flixel Game Engine: Part 1

Nov 20th in Games, Screencasts by Shane Johnson
3

The Flixel game engine is an opensource ActionScript 3.0 framework written by Adam Atomic. Its aim is to take the donkey work out of building AS3 games, leaving you with all the fun stuff and saving heaps of time!

In this, the first in a series of two screencasts, Shane Johnson takes you through the basics of Flixel, explaining how to build an awesome shoot ‘em up game from scratch.

Continue Reading

Build a Multi-Purpose Contact Form With Flex

Jun 22nd in Flex by Shane Johnson
32

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a custom Flex-built contact form. We’ll be implementing many of the fantastic built-in features of the Flex framework, such as the validation methods, the alert box and datefield components to give our contact form added functionality. We’ll also look into adjusting the CSS properties to give our application a unique look and style.

Continue Reading

Assemble a Nifty Twitter Widget using Flash and the Twitter API

May 8th in Screencasts, Widgets by Shane Johnson
44

Flash will work neatly in combination with the Twitter API to create a Twitter widget for any webpage. Follow Shane Johnson (@ultravisual) as he demonstrates building an interface, pulling in specific XML data and tackling cross-domain policy issues..

Continue Reading

Create a Fully Customizable Scrollbar in Flash

Mar 30th in Screencasts by Shane Johnson
77

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a customizable scrollbar in Flash. The scrollbar will move targeted assets from left to right smoothly and would integrate well with a simple image gallery. Shane uses Flash CS4 but the technique is also compatible with CS3.

Continue Reading