The designer/developer boundary has always been a little blurry when it comes to Flash. Flash has been celebrated for this since 1999, and has established a pretty unique position. But with each release of Flash those who sit on the fence feel an increasing pressure to choose a camp and stay in it. Some do, some don’t and some just carry on doing things as they always did, but one thing’s for sure; that the drive toward Flash being a more robust, more powerful, more serious platform is not showing any signs of slowing down. AS3 is another leap forward. In fact a much bigger leap than AS2 was. Read more…
Over the previous three weeks I was working with my old pals at Greenroom Digital, who were producing a Facebook application for their client Paramount Pictures. The app’s release coincided with Paramount’s release of South Park Season 6 on DVD. You won’t be surprised to see that the application is crude and puerile, and you may [as I do] reluctantly find it pretty amusing in places.
You can see the South Park Down and Dirty application in action here. This link is my public Down and Dirty profile and does not require you to add the app, although you can add it here in the usual fashion.
Pick up Campaign or some such publication and no doubt you’ll be able to read all about the strategy, the creative, the design, even the metrics. Less likely you’ll read about the technical execution, which is where I come in…
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