Etude de cas : Flash
Case written by Ruwan – Software Engineer
Currently, Bluecorp is the proud employer of the biggest Adobe Certified Experts Group in Sri Lanka. It’s a large knowledge pool of diverse technologies with expertise in Flash technologies. Whether it is a simple web banner or a very complicated dashboard application, there is always a reliable solution. Due to the time difference between Sri Lanka and Europe/US, content migrations, updates, bug fixes etc. can be handled with minimum impact. Deadlines are always honored without compromising the quality of work.
One of our clients is a game studio based in Belgium. One of their main products is a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Player Game), which was written in AS2. Since AS2 is now mostly obsolete and AS3 is way ahead in performance and new features, there was a need to move into AS3 from AS2. However two major problems were blocking these plans,
- AS2 and AS3 contents cannot run together in the same virtual machine. Hence it was not possible to extend AS2 contents into AS3, virtually making it impossible to reuse AS2 code along with AS3 contents.
- The core game engine, which was done with AS2, is quite big, and therefore the time and cost required for rewriting it using AS3 would have been significant. This was not feasible due to certain constraints.
With the help of the Customer’s in-house developers, we proposed an unprecedented and unconventional solution, which enabled us to use the AS2 game engine while all the new developments were done with AS3, and thus the entire application ran like a single application.
Developing Interactive Contents with Flash Professional
With the advancement of technology, producing digital content is becoming more and more demanding. On one hand it needs to support more media types like videos, animations, photos and sounds, and, on the other it needs to perform on diverse environments like the web, desktop and mobile platforms. Some contents like e-Learning systems need to have responsiveness, interactivity and visual appeal. Others like Games demand robustness and interactivity, as well as responsiveness. Web banners will need to be lightweight, yet full and visually appealing. Web based product customization tools will need the accuracy of rendering. With Flash Professional, creating the right digital content is becoming easier. Flash is the de facto choice of Rich Internet Applications and Interactive contents.