If so, here's your chance to prove it. Adobe and Kongregate are teaming up to host a contest with over $30,000 in prizes, with the largest being a $5,000 cash award + Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium (valued at $1,799) for the designer who creates the best Flash mobile game - or optimizes their best preexisting Flash game for mobile platforms. Second, third through fifth, and runner-ups will win anywhere from $750 to $3,000, with all except the runner-ups also receiving a free copy of the CS5 Web Premium software suite. Details (including contest rules and regulations) can be found here, as well as links to submit your work. The submission deadline is August 23rd, 2010, so you might want to get crackin'.

"Objects" is such a vague term, isn't it? My coffee table is an object. So is the strange wicker...pumpkin...thingie my partner insists on using as a centerpiece. (Seriously, what is that thing, and do you think anyone would notice if I stole it and set it on fire?) My computer's an object. I could call everything on my cluttered Windows desktop an object. But in Flash, what is an object and how does it relate to ActionScripting?? Well, to put it simply, it's anything that can be assigned a name, which allows scripts to reference objects and act on them.

I'll avoid any puns about a method to the madness, Method Man, or anything else particularly methodical and not so very clever. Methods are related to keywords, and have a very specific function in Flash CS5 ActionScripting. You probably already knew what methods are, just not by that name.

After poor second-quarter numbers, people are questioning whether or not Adobe's hit a slump that not even Creative Suite 5 (And Flash CS5, naturally) can bring them out of. What do you think?