Saturday, February 21, 2009

Juicy Updates Cometh

I've got some juicy history that I need to chronicle here because I have some updates regarding both Gamers Of Action and the Community Flash Card project.

First off, I'd like to thank David and Sophia for joining the Gamers Of Action cause and working with Kat and I on Gamers Of Action and the Community Flash Card project. I know their game, sociology, non-profit and critical thinking skills will definitely be huge asset and will definitely be tapped (you've been forewarned ^_^ ).

In terms of game progress, I've created the basic gameplay and flow and just hooked up the game to the GamerOfAction database so we have some user authentication. A lot more still has to be done in terms of further database stat tracking, but I don't anticipate that will be too hard since I've already got the connection established. David has volunteered to help with the art asset generation because I suck at that kinda stuff, hurray for programmer art! I figure that while David is learning Flash CS4, I can continue working on the nuts and bolts of the game so once he's done I can just integrate the art and we'll be good to go.

Things are progressing nicely, although we still need to come up with a real name. I'm leaning toward either Wiki-Flash or Wiki-Flashcards, since the "Wiki" word already has the web 2.0/community connotation and seems like a good fit to the spirit of our game.