CM 03 04

Yesterday i started playing a not so old football management game called CM 03 04.For those of you that dont know what im talking about,its basically the famous championship manager game which has now become a huge franchise.Originally started by Eidos,CM had the potential to be one of the greatest games ever and the 03 04 version was nearly perfect.Unfortunately after the release of 03 04 the team broke up and they moved their separate ways...One group started working on a game called FM(Football Manager) which had great AI and realism but had a crappy interface,some annoying bugs and glitches that just made me give up on the franchise.The other group was still releasing CM but it lacked the AI and gameplay it used to have before.The realism was totally sucked out of it when they introduced weird player stats like feinting(Something to do with diving/falling to ground easily to get freekicks).True this situation goes on in everyday football but do we really need it in a game?

Nonetheless there are still people who really enjoy the CM and FM series but im way too happy with my CM 03 04 to give a damn.The database might be really out of date but the gameplay,interface and player stats are absolutely fantastic.Anyways time for me to get back to my French League 2 side Caen as they fight to get promoted to the first league :)

Flash 9 and internet browsers

Adobe released flash player 9.0.124.0 which managed to break all my flash javascript interaction code at the office.Thus making the genome companies flash applications useless a day before their big presentation.I got called back in to check it out....Turns out all it needed was the allow script access parameter and some javascript for browser identification.Realized something weird about browsers while doing this and i will start it with a question...Why is internet explorer rubbish?

Seriously,ie 6 and 7 are like big spoilt babies.Errors here there and everywhere.It has problems with active x, javascript and according to my web dev friends it cant handle div alignments well either...There needs to be standardization!I had to test my flash files on every key browser(Firefox,ie6,ie7,opera,safari) just to make sure one or two lines of code worked.End result was that it worked on everything except ie 6 and opera.I was surprised it didn't work on opera cause ive always thought opera was somewhat similar to firefox and mozilla.Safari is a really cool browser,looks great(shiny and black mac looking)and doesn't really take much resources.

Finally Back

Wow its been more that a week since i last posted.Well all i can say is its been a really tiring week....Tiring,frustrating and irritating.Might be quitting my job soon due to some poor ethics from my employer as well as poor working conditions.Basically i finished up my work at the company i was being outsourced to and got moved back to my original company.They tried to get rid of me saying there was no need for a flash developer cause there wasnt any work left for me.I fought them and got an extension...but looks like the boss isnt very happy with me.

Basically he's making me do web template mock ups.But here's the catch...he doesnt like my style and wants me to be more like his other designer.Frankly im getting sick of these guys giving me bad feedback on projects.Im fine with constructive feedback but what am i supposed to do with downright rejection and words like "the design is so bad even i could have done it"and all this coming from some idiot who's not even a designer nor a client...An IT consultant...Just another wanker making easy money!!!

Anyways ive had it with it all...Im out looking for other jobs at the moment and if all else fails im going to be designing t-shirts and selling them on this blog:)Hows that for new age entrepreneurship.Or i could probably do some freelance flash development and design...

On a better note,the company trip was great,boozed out and partied on the beach all weekend.

Weekend getaway

Off for a weekend getaway to Cherating Beach in Pahang,Malaysia with the company.Nothing but boozing on the beach all weekend...
Its some sorta Club Med vacation package and everyone from the office is going.First excursion with the co-workers(except for my friends bachelors party last month at Heritage Row,KL)
Anyways...will be thinking of some interesting to develop on this blog by next week.Probably a cool flash app that people could show off on websites :)

The Work That I Do

Currently,im hired as graphic designer and a flash developer for a Malaysian based company called Genseq in Cyberjaya,Malaysia.Genseq primarily deals with DNA genotyping and Genome Sequencing .In a nutshell...we are basically competing with the likes of google's 23andme as well as decodeme.
Along with the help of some great programmers and bioinformaticians i develop Flash applications and Flash content for http://myfamilyhealth.com/home .

Im also an avid vector illustrator who works with only flash...yeah basically i do everything in FLASH.My works are located at http://darkelf2099.deviantart.com/gallery/

The Big Tribe

Welcome to Tribal Tech or "Tsquared" which will be a common norm from now on. If you're reading this then congratulations,you have just witnessed history in the making....Welcome to the first post! This blog will basically cover various aspects of graphic design,flash actionscript development and other cool graphicky stuff. So just sit back,relax,have a cuppa joe and enjoy the ride