Keeping with our yearly tradition of squash mutilation here at gskinner.com, I'm happy to present this year's Great Pumpkin Showdown.
We broke into teams of two, based on seniority, and hacked the crap out of a bunch of defenseless pumpkins while drinking beer, eating pizza, and gorging on candy. Also keeping with tradition, we made the most recent hires build out the pumpkin voting team.
This is our largest batch of jack'o'lanterns to date (five), and definitely our best voting app. Nice work freshmen!
Player 10 is required to view the app below.
We appreciate your votes, and any comments you care to leave about the pumpkins or the app.
If you'd like to check out past years, you can see them here: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Comments (5)
Happy Obama Day!
Posted by: greg at November 4, 2008 05:51 AMURL:
Nice pumpkins! How are you guys rendering that text in 3D so well?
Posted by: Rob at November 4, 2008 10:04 AMURL: http://www.calypso88.com
Very artsy!! I like the corporate one best! Who built it?
Mom
Posted by: jskinner at November 4, 2008 05:37 PMURL:
The 3D is rendered with the Flash 10 API it looks like. And so the text looking as well as it does must be the result of the new text rendering engine on top of the 3D API. Fonts look amazing with the new text engine.
Posted by: Dustin Sparks - Pixelmixer at November 4, 2008 06:56 PMURL: http://djsparks.iweb.bsu.edu/portfolio
@ Dustin;
As nice as the new text engine is, we're not using it in this application. This is just a normal embedded font that happens to render really well, and we made sure it sat at a Z-index of 0 to avoid unneccesary bitmapping.
Posted by: Maurice Leier at November 7, 2008 04:22 PMThanks for commenting!
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