{"id":884,"date":"2008-12-11T01:16:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=884"},"modified":"2008-12-11T01:16:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:16:22","slug":"flash-primitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/12\/11\/flash-primitives\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Primitives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have this theory about Adobe Flash programming, even though I have never done any.<\/p>\n<p>One of the primitives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ActionScript\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of ActionScript\" class=\"wikipedia\">ActionScript<\/a>, one of the basic instructions upon which all the other functions were built, must be called something like <code>RemoveGroupIf3OrMoreMatch()<\/code>. It was the only way to explain why there were so many similar Flash games, based on derivative rules and game-play &#8211; if three or more objects of the same colour are touching, they disappear, and you score points.<\/p>\n<p>I now suspect that the latest release of ActionScript now has a new primitive: <code>Shape.SuccumbToGravity(PivotPoint)<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>That explains the current explosion of &#8220;Physics Engine&#8221; games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have this theory about Adobe Flash programming, even though I have never done any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[323,325,324,95],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","category-thoughts-from-the-shower","tag-actionscript","tag-games","tag-programming","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}