Ringo
Ringo
Q: Please tell us a bit about yourself.
I can be chaotic and organized
I woke up…
My name is Ringo, born in 1971 in a small town of the Netherlands. Now married with a beautiful wife and we have two dogs.
At my early days I was fascinated by games and computers. My first computer was a Atari 800XL in 1983 or so, with the awesome and deadly slow tape recorder. Shortly after that I tried to make my first game, a ski game, wonder if I ever did finish it though:) Sadly we didn’t have much resources back then but we had cool demo/copy party’s. What the people over there could do over there was so amazing.
Later I had a Amiga 500 / 1000 (still have oneJ) played a lot of games, and making music. Ok, let’s fast forward from here, did finish a study called ‘informatica’. Worked as a system manager with Unix and Novell.
Oeps, short rewind, after the Bulletin Board systems and very high phone bills, I discovered the internet in it’s quiet early days and yes even more higher phones bills. I started to make websites and about five years later I started my own company. Now ten years later I am still making websites / games and demos. The last three years mostly flash and I love 3D ! Thanks to Carlos and the rest of the team we can enjoy 3D in flash with Papervision 3D.
Q: How long have you been using Flash/Flex?
Oh flash, I can’t remember guess from the start, but since the last three years quiet active.
Q: What is it about Flash/Flex that you like the most? What would you change?
What not, a lot! The fact that you can see result fast, the fact that like everyone can run it in the browser, the fact I am earning my money with it and having fun. The most, the people around it.
Change ? Nothing but if we could have full GPU support one day, however that would be less of a challenge.
Q: What was the most challenging thing you ever did using actionscript or an actionscript based library/framework?
That still needs to come I hope, well I guess my first 3D game in flash called Space Hockey (see http://www.webgamesarefun.com/spacehockey/) It was a ‘make a game in one day’ project, I need to say it wasn’t finished in one day 
Q: What suggestions or sources of inspiration/motivation would you like to share with up and coming Developers?
Check Flashbookmarks, http://www.flashbookmarks.com ( you can contact me: ringo at flashbookmarks.com) with daily fresh articles and bookmarks. Bookmarks of blog websites and what not, oh and don’t miss Andy Zupko’s (mr. effect) and Mr. Doob blog websites. (maybe you can interview them ? J.) They helped me a lot and are a great inspiration.
Also check http://www.demoscene.tv/ for inspiration and the lab at Adobe http://labs.adobe.com/ . If you like 3D checkout Papervision 3D at http://www.papervision3d.org and the 3D physic engine jiglibflash at http://www.jiglibflash.com/
