As with last time, if you feel someone (perhaps even yourself) should have been on the list, leave their twitter name in the comments!
Individuals
These are the developers, animators, game creators and bloggers who get down and dirty with cutting edge techniques, then tell us all about it.
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Name: Andre Michelle
Location: Germay, Cologne
Web: http://www.andre-michelle.com
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Name: Aral Balkan
Web: http://aralbalkan.com
Bio: Experience Designer & developer with a passion for crafting beautiful experiences. Keynote speaker, teacher, and author of Feathers & ‘Avit iPhone apps.
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Name: Richard Davey
Location: Bristol, UK
Web: http://www.photonstorm.com
Bio: AS3 Games Developer / Retro Gaming Geek
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Name: Facebook Indie Games
Location: The Well of Souls
Web: http://fbindie.posterous.com
Bio: A Twitter service for & about INDIE DEVELOPERS who want to build COOL FACEBOOK GAMES. Stealing Farmville’s thunder 1 player at a time. 1 down, 80 million to go.
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Name: Joseph Burchett
Location: United States
Web: http://josephburchett.net/
Bio: Web developer.
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Name: Andrew Shorten
Location: Mountain View, CA
Web: http://www.ashorten.com
Bio: Senior Product Manager, Flash Builder
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Name: Marvin Blase
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Web: http://www.beautifycode.com
Bio: Driven by my musical heartbeats I’m an Interface- & Animationsdesigner as well as a Flashdeveloper, using Powerflasher’s FDT. Totally addicted to Android & AIR.
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Name: Bruno Fonzi
Location: San Francisco, CA
Web: http://fonzi.com
Bio: Powerflasher Interactive Digital Agency, Technology and Business Strategist + FDT Geek (Flash/Flex/haXe eclipse based IDE) + founder of FlashOnGames.com
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Name: GarthDB
Location: Cedar Hills, Utah
Web: http://www.garthdb.com
Bio: Director of UX at Rain
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Name: johnlindquist
Location: home
Web: http://johnlindquist.com/
Bio: http://j.mp/johnlindquist
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Name: Sean Moore
Location: Denver
Web: http://www.seantheflexguy.com/blog
Bio: flex & air developer, technical author, musician, dj, chef
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Name: Seb Lee-Delisle
Location: Brighton
Web: http://seb.ly
Bio: Creatively digital, CTO Plug-in Media, papervision3D dev, intl conference speaker, writer.
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Name: Ryan Creighton
Location: Toronto Canada
Web: http://www.untoldentertainment.com
Bio: Ryan Henson Creighton, founder of Toronto game dev company Untold Entertainment Inc. – specializing in online kids games supporting TV shows
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Name: Iain Lobb
Location: Cornwall & London
Web: http://blog.iainlobb.com
Bio: Creative Flash Developer & Game Designer
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Name: Ralph Hauwert
Location: Harderwijk, The Netherlands
Web: http://www.unitzeroone.com
Bio: Creative, Developer, Consultant, Speaker. Owner of UnitZeroOne, working on Aviary.com. Once a core Developer for Papervision3D.
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Name: Peter Elst
Location: Belgium / India
Web: http://www.peterelst.com
Bio: Freelance Flash Platform consultant based in Belgium and India. Developer. Geek.
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Name: Keith Peters
Location: in a chair.
Web: http://www.bit-101.com/blog
Bio: Obviously I’m not a golfer.
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Name: Mario Klingemann
Location: Munich, Germany
Web: http://www.quasimondo.com
Bio: Computational Artisan, Speaker, Tinkerer, Mad Scientist, Radical Atheist, Sceptic, Scavenger, Dog Man, Pirate, Maths Groupie, Apprentice Art Collector, F.O.C.
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Name: joseeight
Location: NYC
Web: http://www.eightyearproject.com
Bio: I’m a lead interactive developer with an avant-garde mind. I’m kind of in my own little creative world. Come and visit!
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Name: Koen De Weggheleire
Location: Kortrijk | Belgium
Web: http://www.newmovieclip.com
Bio: Flash Platform Enthusiast
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Name: Seantron™ McCracken
Location: Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Web: http://about.me/seantron
Bio: Dad, Autodidact, Developer (AS3, Java, Unity3d), R&D @Influxis, Math Dude, Game Dev/Junky, Heavy Sigher, Ex-Audio Engineer/Musician/Composer
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Name: Branden Hall
Location: Washington, DC
Bio: CTO, Automata Studios
Evangelists
It’s an evangelist’s job to bring a message to the masses, so if anyone’s going to have a lot to say about their work it’s this lot!
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Name: eduvos
Web: http://www.duvos.com
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Name: Mike Jones
Location: Haslemere, United Kingdom
Web: http://blog.flashgen.com
Bio: I’m a Platform Evangelist at Adobe. Flash Platform fanboy and all round tech geek
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Name: Mark Doherty
Location: London
Web: http://www.flashmobileblog.com
Bio: Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist (Mobile and Devices)
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Name: paultrani
Location: iPhone: 39.456188,-104.711273
Web: http://www.designupdate.com
Bio: The 140-character version of an Adobe Flash Evangelist. These views are from the voices in my head and not Adobe’s.
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Name: Renaun Erickson
Location: Henderson, NV
Web: http://renaun.com
Bio: Adobe Platform Evangelist focusing on Flex
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Name: Terrence Ryan
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Web: http://terrenceryan.com
Bio: 33 year old redhead geek from Philadelphia. I’m currently a Platform Evangelist for Adobe.
Events
These guys are great for following if you want to keep up with who’s appearing where and when. Your favorite speakers, your favorite locations, your favorite subjects.
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Name: Flash Gaming Summit
Location: San Francisco
Web: http://www.flashgamingsummit.com
Bio: Flash Gaming Summit is a one day conference dedicated to fostering the growth and success of the Flash games community.
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Name: FlashAndTheCity
Location: New York
Web: http://blog.flashandthecity.com
Bio: Flash and the City: Development and Design conference in New York City. May 13-16, 2010
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Name: FOTB
Location: London
Web: http://www.flashonthebeach.com
Bio: Flash on the Beach Organiser
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Name: RIA Unleashed Boston
Location: Boston, MA
Web: http://riaunleashed.com
Bio: Web development conference focused on the Adobe Flash Platform including ColdFusion, Flex, AIR and more.
Tools of the Trade
It’s always useful to see what the creators of 3rd party apps and add-ons are up to. Need to know if an update is coming any time soon? Have something to say about the product you’re using? Interested in what other users have to say? Twitter is the perfect medium.
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Name: flixel
Location: Austin
Web: http://flixel.org
Bio: official flixel twitter account, will post news and API updates here from now on!
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Name: Mr. Hall & Mr. Davis
Web: http://www.hypeframework.org
Bio: the HYPE framework is a collaborative visual framework developed by Branden Hall and Joshua Davis
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Name: Adobe Pixel Bender
Location: Seattle and San Jose
Web: http://www.adobe.com/go/hydra
Bio: Follow me for updates on the Adobe Pixel Bender Language
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Name: FDT Team
Location: Aachen, Germany
Web: http://fdt.powerflasher.com
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Name: Jack Doyle
Location: Chicago
Web: http://blog.greensock.com
Bio: ActionScript Enthusiast
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Name: FlashDevelop
Web: http://flashdevelop.org
Active Contributors
You’ll recognize this bunch; they’re the names you’ll regularly see flying past as authors of our tuts, or top selling files on ActiveDen. Keep up to date with new contributors by following the Activetuts+ Writers list. Carry on the good work guys!
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Name: Jesse Freeman
Location: New York
Web: http://flashartofwar.com
Bio: The Flash Art Of War
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Name: hellofutureboss
Location: Aveiro, Portugal
Web: http://www.hellofutureboss.com
Bio: Freelance Flash Developer & Webdesigner. Currently with projects in NYC, Barcelona and Berlin.
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Name: Zevan Rosser
Location: Brooklyn NY
Web: http://actionsnippet.com
Bio: I’m Zevan Rosser, teacher at the School of Visual Arts in NYC- I do consulting for ad/design firms- Co-author of Learning ActionScript 3.0 a Beginners Guide
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Name: Joseph Labrecque
Location: Denver, CO
Web: http://memoryspiral.com
Bio: Senior Multimedia Application Developer at the University of Denver and Adobe Education Leader. Multidisciplinary Artist / An Early Morning Letter, Displaced.
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Name: Pierre Laveklint
Location: Sweden
Web: http://www.laveklint.com
Bio: Musician / WebDeveloper / Designer / Father / Spotifier
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Name: Michael J Williams
Location: England
Web: http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com
Bio: I help people make Flash games. Also tech editor for @activetuts.
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Name: TomGreen
Location: Oakville, Ontario.
Web: http://www.tomontheweb.ca/Bio.htm
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Name: Moritz Praetorius
Location: Cologne, Germany
Web: http://damojo.net
Bio: Stock Flash designer and developer of smart & stylish web applications
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Name: Clemente Gomez
Location: NYC
Web: http://www.kreativeking.com
Bio: Flash Developer – Author @FlashTuts+, @WebDesignerMag, @FlashDen
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Name: marco secchi
Location: milan, italy
Web: http://www.loziosecchi.it
Bio: flash/flex programmer and game developer
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Name: Mike Taulty
Location: UK
Web: http://mtaulty.com
Bio: I do some developer stuff for Microsoft in the UK.
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Name: Jeff Murray
Location: Canada
Web: http://www.psychicparrotgames.com
Bio: I make games!
Not Forgetting Of Course..
I did it last time, so I’ll do it again! In any case, I need one more to make up fifty and the post preview image is full, so I don’t want to leave anyone out..
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Name: Activetuts+
Location: Earth
Web: http://active.tutsplus.com
Bio: Flash Tutorials, Techniques, News and Awesomeness
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