Processing is Dead! All Hail JavaScript!

Processing is Dead!  All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

ActionScript is Dead!  All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

Java is Dead!  All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

Objective C is Dead! All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

C++ is Dead! All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

C# is Dead! All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

Ruby is Dead! All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

Python is Dead! All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

PHP is Dead! All Hail JavaScript and HTML5!

Hopefully you detect my bitterness and disappointment with the open source world, the tech media and the marketing industry in their frenzy to adopt HTML5 as supreme leader and shun perfectly good programming environments.

My experience is with ActionScript and Flash – a mature authoring environment which allows developers to make once and publish anywhere.  Anywhere that is until Apple came along an banned it from the mobile Web with lame self-serving excuses.  What followed was nothing short of persecution.  https://danzen.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/apple-should-be-punished-for-attempting-to-kill-browser-plugins/

Processing is a spin-off of Java with a wonderful artist following to make cool things.  Well… watch out… once people realize that you can do this in JavaScript and HTML5 – maybe you will have the horde against you too.

Most of these languages are server side languages and back-end coders may think they are safe because JavaScript is a front end programming language… but there is server-side JavaScript too.

My point is – there does not have to be nor should there be one programming language or development stack.  Why we are letting the Web be controlled by one system is beyond me.  Countless Marketing folks, Developers and Designers I have talked to in the field are saying Flash is dead – Plugins are dead.  Stop trying to kill Flash with your words and start trying to support it.

My apologies for the harsh metaphor (not as harsh now that I have taken out the swastika from the picture).  Of course, nothing is worse than human persecution.  But what some of you with power of influence are doing when declaring Flash dead or accepting the demise of the Plugin is unjust and truly not good for our culture.  Please read https://danzen.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/apple-should-be-punished-for-attempting-to-kill-browser-plugins/.

Touchy on Dragons’ Den CBC

Touchy, the mobile game from Dan Zen will be featured in a short segment on CBC’s Dragon Den on January 18th, 2012 at 8PM.

Touchy – visit http://touchy.mobi – is available on the Apple iTunes store and Android Market. It is a social game where players physically try to touch each others’ mobile screens. So it is a game of reaching and protecting – with shrieks of laughter!

Arlene and Robert play Touchy on Dragons' Den

Arlene and Robert laughing after a game of Touchy

The pitch went well – but I was called in the day after a three day conference with late parties each night and this was just after a long open house – after I stopped talking, I could hardly get my mouth open – all I could do was nod and smile! Oh well – Inventor Dan Zen.

Touchy Inventor Dan Zen on Dragons' Den CBC

We would love your help getting Touchy out to the people – please check out the game on iTunes and Android Market – just search for Touchy – links are available at http://touchy.mobi, leave a review and tell anyone who you think would like to play – it is hard getting the message out to the youth – the primary market.

If you are interested in getting involved in an upcoming Touchy Tournament – find us on facebook and leave a message on the Wall – http://facebook.com/touchymobi – all the best!

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Altura – Pseudo Interactive Storytelling Site Launches

Altura at http://altura.mobi is a Web / Mobile site that lets people partake and write pseudo interactive stories in a fun and free manner.

We will not give away exactly how it works until you try it!  Suffice it to say, it is another interactive storytelling feature from creator Dan Zen – http://danzen.com to add to the long list of interactive fiction environments:

Interactive Storytelling GAMES

	GORGOLON Underwater Multi-user Sci-Fi Game
	SAVE EARTH Save Future Earth With This Online Remote Control!
	MOUSTACHE MYSTERIES Zany Mysteries from the Mind of the Moustache!
	SHRINK RAY Save thousands shrunk in a bottle!
	BLIMP RACE Fly your blimp with all your friends!

Social Interactive Storytelling

	HIP CATS Turn On, Jack In and Hang Out
	CHANGING MAIL Change sent mail after it is read
	SPIROGRAM Spiral Encode Messages To Friends
	DENS Atmospheric Forums
	SPY-MAIL Get Spied On!
	COMMENT RIGHT Encouragement for blog comments

Interactive Storytelling EXPERIENCES

	TOWER OF BABEL Whisper Words That Have Never Been Said
	ZEN MOTTO Philosophical Focus
	A MILLION CLOUDS Fly a Jet Pack Through a Million Clouds!
	GYCOPO The Game You Can Only Play Once!
	PREDICTION TRAIN Ride the Prediction Train Into the Future

Interactive Storytelling APPS

	SNIPISODE Tell stories through Facebook status lines!
	TAPOLL Predict-a-Poll Web 2.0 Site!
	YASEESAY Say What you See Tool!
	ZEN MIX Cool Vlogging Tool
	ZEN PICTURE PAN ZOOM Scrolling Picture Viewer

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