At the beginning of February I had the opportunity to travel to Brighton to attend training courses for Papervision3D and Flash Games Programming. Both courses were led by Papervision3D development team member and Plug-In Media’s technical Director Seb Lee-Delisle.

I wanted to use the courses to strengthen and build upon what I have already taught myself, and to be inspired with what else is possible in Flash. Everyday I surf the web and discover new and interesting experiences. Being the curious type I love to discover how someone else has solved a problem so that I can use my understanding within my own work.

The Papervision3D training course was a great introduction into the features available, discussing key points that you wouldn’t normally think of, or that you would only pick up through experience. What I found really useful was talking through some of the project examples that Seb has been involved with.

The Flash games programming course was a bigger learning opportunity. The course went over areas for developing classic games such as Asteroids, or Moon lander, and also looked at how to develop a basic platform game. Seb ran through a lot of useful examples that he has been involved with and answered many questions of other types of games that you can create.

Both courses were a lot of fun and I would definitely recommend them. I’m a confident developer but I learned a lot that I couldn’t learn from a book and it was also useful to see how other developers worked.