We are in the last few days of proposal submissions for Adobe MAX. If you have an idea and want to present, make sure to get your ideas in by April 15!

While we are looking for topics that cover any number of areas, I’m here to shamelessly request really great proposals for ActionScript and Flash Player 10 sessions and labs. We had great sessions last year, but now that you’ve had time to really explore Flash Player 10, I’m expecting some pretty mind-blowing topics!

Kokosan posted a Flash Player 10 game on Kongregate called Snake Box that is a 3D take on the classic snake game. Rather than just being on a flat grid, you now navigate in a loop around the edges of a cube.

Its a good use of the 3D Effects in Flash Player 10, and they did a good job with keeping the cube rotated smoothly. Unfortunately for me, the controls are a bit twitchy, but still a good game.

When it comes to games, I know I have a problem. There are too many really cool Flash games all over the web, and I only have so much (little) time. I love puzzle games, conceptual games, and lots of arcade games.

But today, I found the first game the first game that really seems to clearly make use of a Flash Player 10 feature. Glaiel Games recently launched “Closure.” The game is a conceptual side-scroller where you use balls of light to reveal and destroy parts of the world.

The extra cool part to me is the visual style. It is a black and white game which is styled by the application of Adobe Pixel Bender filters that do something conceptually related to halftone and shading to show off the world. Its pretty neat.

Also, another Glaiel game that I love is Aether. Definitely worth checking out.

I am settling in for election results with my TV on and my computer loading all of the sites for the networks. While I wait to find out the fate of Obama, prop 8, and all of the other issues that have me a nervous wreck, the current silver lining is that for their electoral maps, EVERYONE is using Flash Player.

I would write a longer post, but, must get back to reading the county by county data from VA

Check out Adobe Labs to download Flash Player 10 beta, take the new demos for a spin, and watch videos about the new features.

The key features for Flash Player 10 beta include:

• 3D Effects – transform any display object in 3D with easy to use ActionScript APIs while retaining full interactivity.
• Custom Filters and Effects – In addition to the native filters in Flash Player you can also make your own using Adobe Pixel Bender. These filters, blend modes and fills can be scripted and animated using ActionScript.
• New Text Engine – Bi-directional text, vertical layout, styeable device fonts are all part of the capabilities of the new text engine. In addition, this generic engine will power a new set of text components with really mazing typographic and layout functionality.
• Visual Performance – through two new wmode settings you will be able to take advantage of the video card to speed up rendering and blitting.
• Vector – A new ECMAScript 4 data type that is very much like an array but only accepts one type. By knowing what type will be stored in the array access performanc is dramatically faster.
• Runtime FileReference access – With Flash Player 10 beta you can open a file dialog box to ask a user to select a file and load it into the runtime. You can also save content from the runtime to the desktop.

There is a lot more in this release, and I look forward to posting more about it soon!

Just got in to Toronto for FITC. I’m looking forward to presenting tomorrow during the keynote on all of the cool things that we’ve been working on for the last year, and the even cooler things to come.

I’m also looking forward to Joa Ebert’s talk on Hydra and Flash Player’s own Jim Corbett who will be giving an updated version of his popular talk from MAX, “Flash Player Internals.” If you want to know how Flash Player works and what really happens when you run ActionScript, do a tween, or use a filter, make sure you make it to this session.

The sessions overall look great (as always for FITC), so I’ll try to get some blogging in along the way.

If you are at the conference, say “hi.” I should have Flash swag with me at all times