The What Happens in Vegas slot game was built as a Facebook application, promoting the upcoming Fox movie. The game is completely built in Actionscript 3, and uses both Flex and Flash.
The design and visual assets were provided by our creative department at Moxie, and I broke out all of the vector elements into separate pieces that the Flex shell loads. The plan with this game was that the finished product not be specific to Facebook, but that it could be ported to other platforms like MySpace. Since Facebook is not adopting Open Social, it was much more difficult since we had to create API calls to Facebook, as well as the Open Social platforms.
Overall it was a fun project, since it was my first time building a slot machine. Fox wanted the ability to directly control how many people win and lose, so the code for the game is completely built around a "win" percentage and "wild win" percentage to accomodate that. So it's not completely random.
http://stage.foxmediaonline.com/vegas/facebook/flash/facebook.swf Flex, Flash, Fox Movies, Facebook, Open Social, Moxie Interactive, Actionscript 3 Jumper Silverlight Experience http://www.sleeplessmuse.com/images/jumper.jpg images/jumper.jpg Fox Movies DivisionThis project was full of challenges, the first of which being that the entire site had to be built using Silverlight 1.0, and no one at Moxie had any Silverlight experience. We also had to build the site in two weeks, and there were a total of 14 languages that the site had to be translated in!
Despite all of those challenges, the Jumper Silverlight experience site launched on time, and really looks fantastic. It's hard to tell that it's built completely in Silverlight,
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/jumper.html Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft, Jumper, Fox, Moxie Interactive Home Depot TV http://www.sleeplessmuse.com/images/hdtv.jpg images/hdtv.jpg Home DepotHDTV was one of the first projects I worked on at Moxie, and I continue to contribute to it still today. The site is a huge repository of home improvement videos from Home Depot, built completely in Flash with all the content being handled via XML files.
HDTV is maintained by our client services team, using a custom built Flex CMS that manages all of the videos and related products info that goes with each video. The CMS also generates the RSS feed that goes along with HDTV.
http://www6.homedepot.com/tv/ Flash, Flex, Home Depot TV, CMS, Streaming Video, Akamai Verizon Wireless Ringtones http://www.sleeplessmuse.com/images/ringtones.jpg images/ringtones.jpg Verizon WirelessThe Verizon Wireless Ringtones page is a redesigned page, the first version is an html page rendered using .NET controls. Verizon wanted the page to be more stimulating and visually appealing, so we rebuilt it in Flex. The biggest challenge was definitely organizing the content in a way that made sense, without overwhelming users with information.
Most of the Flex pieces are skinned components, although several are custom built. The app communicates via Web Services at each user initiated decision, and retrieves XML that is displayed in the next step.
http://products.vzw.com/index.aspx?id=music_ringtone_new Flash, Flex, Verizon Wireless, Ringtones, Flex Skinning, Flex Web Services Home Depot Patio Finder http://www.sleeplessmuse.com/images/patio.jpg images/patio.jpg Home DepotThe Home Depot Patio Selector is a site where users can create their own patio furniture combinations, by swapping out patterns and creating coordinating items.
On the technical side, the entire site was built using Javascript, the Prototype Library, and Scriptaculous Animation Framework.
http://www6.homedepot.com/patios/patio.html Javascript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Home Depot, Patio Home Depot Ultimate Garage http://www.sleeplessmuse.com/images/garage.jpg images/garage.jpg Home DepotUsing a hybrid of Flash and Javascript, the Ultimate Garage site shows model garages, and recommendations of accessories from Home Depot.
We ran into a huge problem when organizing the assets for this site, the original photography could not be lined up correctly to create the virtual tour of the garages. The solution was to move the tours from Quicktime into Flash, and create a stitching of each of the images that lined up to give the illusion of movement from the center of the room.
http://www6.homedepot.com/ultimategarage/ Javascript, Prototype, Home Depot, Flash, Virtual Tour