After a little pause I picked up the development of my Flash AGI interpreter.
I have come up with a solution to the problem of flash being incapable of reading binary files:
The game-files are read server-side by a php-script and repackaged into a large string which is sent to the the interpreter as a swf!
This dynamically created swf is about the same size as the original files. Because it is a swf, no custom parsing has to be done, which saves a lot of time!
Dynamically creating flash-movies (for instance using php) was new to me and it gave me quite a kick to pull it off so fast! It has much broadened my view on the swf file format as well.

Tags: Application, Backend, Flash, Frontend, Personal

At Ranj I just finished another project. It is a tool to create input for the upcoming Climate Game.
The tool will be used at the 4th annual World Water Forum, this time held in Mexico City.

It consists of two flash-applications, with a MySql/php backend for logging the data the users generate.
One application is for the children at the forum to use to shape their world and give their opinions on global climatic problems.
The other app is used for beaming all the results so visitors of the forum can see them.

Tags: Application, Backend, Flash, Frontend, Php/MySql, Ranj

Miller Beer just went online with a new campaign, the Miller Revue. It consists of a set of artist impressions of their ‘Genuinely easy’ campaign.
# 6 in these series is an interactive animation by Rafael Rozendaal, for which I did the technical part.

Play around with it at Miller Revue.

Tags: Animation, Flash, Frontend, Rafael Rozendaal

For Hal4’s Digital Playground we made a new educational site at Ranj. It’s called Shop4Media. Children can use the site to get a feel of production aspects of multimedia design. I did the flash-programming.

Earlier, I did the flash work for the Digital Playground homepage.

Tags: Application, Flash, Frontend, Ranj, Website