Here’s a challenge!
The brief here was to produce a 3d style ski game that will work on mobile – IN THE BROWSER!
So – where to start? Pure javascript? Some form of game framework? Create JS? Euuurghhhh. After a lot of mucking around I simply went back to good ol’ Flash and had a working proof of concept out in around 2 days!
How to get it on mobile? I converted the output .swf with the amazing Swiffy . Using external interface calls, I was able to use Javascript to detect key presses, access the accelerometer, play the sound effects (only possible to the awesome ‘howler‘ library) and access the registration cookies.
A little sprinkling of mysql and php for the leaderboard (all processed in the ‘Flash’ file) and we’re good to go!
