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      <title><![CDATA[3D Printing Stuff]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I got a 3D printer over the Christmas holidays and started learning how to create some stuff.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crashy Cart]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A chicken races a shopping cart down the road. What could go wrong?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Battle Pirates]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Working on the high seas]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Oscar's Alphabet]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A simple spelling game I built for my child, using Amazon Polly to read out custom word lists that he can then type out on a letter keyboard.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Warfare Online]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Warfare Online takes the classic Warfare 1917 and 1945 formula from Flash into a standalone 3D PvP game built in Unity, available on Steam.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Dead Zone Chat]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of my first duties when starting at Con Artist Games was to integrate a chat system into The Last Stand: Dead Zone. Whilst at the time it seemed like a pretty straight forward task, it eventually...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Last Stand: Dead Zone]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In August of 2012 I joined the team Con Artist Games and immediately got to work on their flagship title - The Last Stand: Dead Zone. Based on their existing titles of side scrolling flash games,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Catching Cheaters in Dead Zone]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cheating is a problem that all online games face. Here's some of the ways we battled it in Dead Zone.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lynx Fastlife - Behind the Scenes - Part 2]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In my previous post I explained how I generated the sequences used in the Lynx Fastlife app - which you can read about here. Now I'm gonna run through how I did the overlays and data insertion for...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lynx Fastlife - Behind the Scenes - Part 1]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes look at one of my biggest Flash projects — covering the logic for generating personalised story sequences from XML, including linking, ordering and age-appropriate content filtering.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Glowing Text Effect]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Lynx Fast Life campaign I worked on at Visual Jazz had a design style that was just screaming for more than just the usual blurs and fades you usually use on a flash website. Something that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Light Writing Effect]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A while back I was given the task of trying to animate a banner that was to go on a site we were building at Visual Jazz. All in a usual days work I thought until I saw the design mockup and realised...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bananas in Pyjamas Website]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The games filled website I helped build for the hit ABC TV Show.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a 360 fly-through]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How we made 3D fly arounds in flash]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[AVM1 in AVM2 Woes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not too long ago I was given the task of making some old AS1 and AS2 games work inside a brand new AS3 site that we had built for a client... fun times...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Warfare Officer - Behind The Scenes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes look at how Warfare Officer was built in Flash using Away3D lite, covering performance management, ripple effects, explosions, path finding and AI.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Warfare Officer]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Warfare Officer is a bizarre mix of real-time strategy and arcade explosiveness. Take control of Australian naval ships and battle to destroy the enemy base in this online multiplayer Flash game.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strike Fighter - Behind the scenes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes look at how Strike Fighter was built in Flash using Away3D lite, covering the scene setup, F35 jet model, missile smoke trails, enemy AI and level scripting.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strike Fighter]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Striker Fighter is an 80's style arcade shooter that I built at Visual Jazz for the Defence Jobs Games website. It was really fun to build and really fun to play. At least, I think it is. I spent so...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jay Jays Jayvatar Builder Goes Live]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This week the Jay Jays Jayvatar Builder that Visual Jazz created went live. It's a cool little tool that lets you create your own custom avatar for use on the Jay Jays]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Enviromaniac Games]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A few months back, Visual Jazz (the place I work) was building a new site for Visy called Visy Enviromaniacs. The purpose of the site was to help educate children about the environment, teaching them...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Liv Doll Microsite]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Working at Visual Jazz does expose me to some interesting scenarios. I mean, playing with dolls for a couple of weeks isn't my usual idea of a good time, but this funky little microsite had some...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sciences at Melbourne Website]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Did you ever get the feeling that you were being tested? That's what happened to me with this site — 3D columns, depth of field, keyed video and a whole lot more, all in Flash.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Virtual Bakery]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A virtual Flash bakery built for Baker's Delight, featuring a parallax store front, displacement-map steam loader and a 360-degree product viewer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Colorado Microsite]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A microsite I worked on for the new Holden Colorado]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Epica Microsite]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A look at the Holden Epica microsite built entirely in Flash, featuring a parallax home page, animated tick effects and a clean design driven by white space and green highlights.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[DisplacementMapFilter Tester]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A DisplacementMapFilter tester I built in Flash, letting you experiment with different images and map combinations and generating the ActionScript 3 code to recreate the effect.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Testing Regular Expressions in ActionScript 3]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I'm by no means an expert on Regular Expressions. I mean, I get what they do, and can see their awesomeness, but damn they do my head in]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Faking Depth of Field in Papervision 3D]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A walkthrough of how I faked depth of field in Papervision 3D by dynamically swapping pre-blurred textures on 3D planes based on their distance from the camera.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fishy Food Corporate Identity]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Fishy Food corporate identity was created as part of a typographical experiment. The actual company does not exist.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Original Grabbit]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Catching as many bugs as you can - that's what Grabbit is all about. Play as a frog and use your tongue to snag as many bugs as possible before time runs out.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Graph Classes written in ActionScript 3]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ActionScript 3 graph classes I built for a Mathematics Learning Object, capable of rendering a variety of chart types driven from an external XML file.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jigsaw Puzzle]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A digital jigsaw puzzle game where you drag, drop and rotate pieces into place. Includes a custom puzzle creator where you can upload your own image.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Marble Buster]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marble Buster is an odd game. It is simple in its requirements but requires planning in order to achieve high scores.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[MathML Parser written in ActionScript 3]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a similar fashion to my AS3 Graphing Classes, my MathML parser was created out of necessity. I was working on a project that had to display some equations, but drawing them out manually seemed a...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reflection in ActionScript 3]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was creating an online gallery for a project at work when I came across the need for dynamically created reflections. We had an existing class that we usually used for reflections, but it was a bad...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) Explanation]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An explanation of Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) for collision detection between convex polygons, with an interactive demo and downloadable ActionScript 3 and JavaScript classes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[DotCom Innovations (DCI) Corporate Identity]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A corporate identity I created for a promotion product company.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[JuicyBear Website]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This simple yet stylish website was created as part of the JuicyBear Tees]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ITC Corporate Identity]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A corporate identity I created for Innovative Technology Consultants (ITC), covering logo design and a full suite of corporate stationery.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Memento Gifts Website]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Memento Gifts website is a database driven PHP/MySQL site displaying over 2000 promotional products, with browsing, keyword search, a pricing matrix and a custom catalogue builder.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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