In my previous post I explained how I generated the sequences used in the Lynx Fastlife app – which you can read about here. Now I’m gonna run through how I did the overlays and data insertion for the app – the part that I think is the really cool part.
Lynx Fastlife – Behind the Scenes – Part 1
Its one of the biggest and most complex projects I have had to work on in a long time and I thought it was worth going through some of the key elements explain how we got it done.
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Light Writing Effect
A while back I was given the task of trying to animate a banner that was to go on a site we were building at Visual Jazz. All in a usual days work I thought until I saw the design mockup and realised it had been photo-shopped to the bejeezus.
The idea behind it was that it was meant to look like when you take a sparkler and move it around really fast in the air – the glow leaves a line of light behind it for a few seconds.
After a fair bit of messing around I finally came up with something I think looked pretty cool, which you can check out here…
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Glowing Text Effect
The Lynx Fast Life campaign I worked on at Visual Jazz had a design style that was just screaming for more than just the usual blurs and fades you usually use on a flash website. Something that looked more like After Effects then flash.
After a bit of messing around with prototypes I finally came up with something I thought looked pretty cool and it ended up getting used throughout the entire site.
Lynx Fastlife goes live!
For the last few weeks I have been working on a pretty massive project at Visual Jazz for Lynx body spray called Lynx Fast Life.
It is a pretty awesome video / facebook / integration site that pulls data from your Facebook account and generates a glimpse of what your life would have been like if the world wasn’t going to end in 2012.
It was a massive effort from a number of people from different agencies and it all came together beautifully in the end.
I will be doing a bit of a write up on some of the technical stuff I had to deal with soon, but in the mean time be sure to go and check it out at http://www.lynxfastlife.com/
AVM1 in AVM2 Woes
Not too long ago I was given the task of making some old AS1 and AS2 games work inside a brand new AS3 site that we had built for a client. Whilst the basic concept seemed simple enough – load it in with a Loader – I soon realised there were a bunch of problems that needed to be addressed – most of which I couldn’t find any information on.
For the sake of others I have compiled a list of these here, along with the solutions I found, when there was one.
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Warfare Officer – Behind The Scenes
Warfare Officer is the biggest game I have built to date. Built in Flash using Away3D lite, it used a variety of techniques that I have never used before. It was a bit of a min
Here is a quick summary of some of the techniques I used when building this game.
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Warfare Officer
Warfare Officer is a bizzarre mix of real-time strategy and arcade explosiveness (if there is such a thing).
Take control of three Australian navel ships and lead them on a mission to destroy the enemy base whilst protecting your own.
Strike Fighter – Behind the scenes
So, how was Strike Fighter built? Well, for starters it is all done in flash, which I think would be kinda obvious since that is what I tend to work with.
The rest was a combination of some basic 3D and a few little tricks. To find out more, read on 
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Strike Fighter
Striker Fighter is an 80′s style arcade shooter that I built at Visual Jazz for the Defence Jobs Games website. It was really fun to build and really fun to play. At least, I think it is. I spent so long on it that it has become hard to tell
It was actually completed months ago, I’ve just been lazy about adding it to my site.
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