Mercedes Facebook game – flash

Juten Tach,

another project just went online this week, in which i was involved: Drive and Seek – The Prologue. Together with Harald, who was the lead here, we were responsible for the development. I took special care of the interface to facebook and the customization features of the end video, in which you can put your own picture either by uploading one or via webcam.

It was a fun project, going for a about a month.

What did i learn? First of all, i have mixed feelings about robotlegs. I like the DI part, but i cannot get used to these top-down mvc structures, which seem to put too much emphasis on infrastructure and too little on conceptual entities. I have to admit, that robotlegs technically does not tell you how to structure your application, but the best practices documentation does promote the approach of using mediators, commands and so on and tying it all together via bunch of events. This sounds all nice in theory, in practice for me, it is too technical and does not reflect the individual, conceptual relations of the components and modules i like to build. But this is stuff for another post.

I do like the Facebook API, although its documentation leaves a lot to be desired. The JavaScript SDK is nice and after fighting with the Facebook ActionScript library initially (couldn’t get it to initialize reliably), i soon abandoned it and used the JavaScript SDK directly via ExternalInterface.