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This swf shows a marquee of letters scrolling across a 3D panel that rotates according to the mouse position. In this post I thought it would be helpful to walk you through how I got to the final swf by combining a few different pieces of code. The swf is a combination of a custom [...]

Here’s the finalists for the Independent Games Festival. Most of these games have a free, downloadable version. Support your independent games developers and get downloading!

Making a note of this here because I don’t see it in any of the docs.
When using ExternalInterface cross-domain (i.e. the swf and JS are on different domains) you may get an ‘Unspecified error’ message in IE. Debugging in Visual Studio gives an ‘unknown exception’ in the return statement of this function:
function __flash__addCallback(instance, name) {
[...]

I missed this the first time around. Fantastically useful when testing against IE7 or IE6. Allows you to clear your IE cache, browse the DOM, outline elements etc. Get Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar here.