John Polacek

Developer + Designer

My Developer Plans for 2011

January 29, 2011   |   development, web   |   No Comments

I may not get to everything on this list, but that’s ok. It is good to have a gameplan. I’ll likely even add some things as the year goes on. There is a definite trend in my goals, and that is to open up my skillset, moving away from specializing in Flash. My ultimate goal [...]

Got Me Some Corona

January 25, 2011   |   adobe, development, flash   |   No Comments

I like Corona—both the beer and the SDK. This post is about the Corona SDK from AnscaMobile. I was reticent to drop the money on it, but now that I am using it, I have to say it is worth every penny. In my last post, I wrote about why I found Flash to be [...]

Developing My First Mobile App

January 18, 2011   |   adobe, development, flash, web   |   No Comments

In my spare time over the holidays, I worked on developing a game app for phones. The game is called Touch The Trend and it is now on sale in the iTunes Store and the Android Marketplace. It is a quiz game where you try to correctly identify the latest trending topics that are being [...]

Pour One More

January 15, 2011   |   flash   |   No Comments

A site I worked on went live a couple days ago. It’s a promotion site for the Milk ‘Pour One More’ campaign, giving away milk and information about the nutrient benefits of drinking it. It got quite a bit of traffic from being featured on Good Morning America, The View, and The Today Show.

Missile Pre-Order

January 7, 2011   |   art, comics   |   No Comments

The graphic novel for which I recently finished the art, Missile To The Moon, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.