RE: FLASH: Anyone Up for a Challenge?

[Branden Hall]

I hope you are not thinking that you can do this as a multi-player over the

net game.. cause that will not happen... not with how flash 4 works. I also

hope you have a budget of at least 10K for the developer!


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software




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Subject: FLASH: Anyone Up for a Challenge?



Is anyone up for building this game in either Flash or Director?


Contact me if you are interested in giving me a price.


Thanks.


Main technical aspects.

The project concerns about a tennis tournament, in Flash4: max players

per-tournament=200, turnovers, playoffs, from 12th to finals, one-month

duration per-each tournament organized. Each match would last the best of 4

sets (3-1, 4-0, 3-2 [tiebreaked], etc.). There would be templated the human

supporters' presence too, for live match, and actual chat among supporters,

if this option wouldn't harm the performances nor harden the coding. The

platform server we actually run is: NT, or 2000 (if released in time; voices

say 17 february....), Pentium III Coppermine 733, 256 MB RAM (we are

upgrading at once to 1Gb "slanted" as soon), 20GB HD. The actual server's

shared by our forthcoming portal; hope this wouldn't harm the game's

performances, otherwise we already planned for a dedicated gameserver, but

by now that's better to test on unique server (for matching other software's

behaviour too; though, this server will be shared too w/ other software).

Field's layout would be discussed; either isometric (we thought this first

rendering would be much more opinable) or cued (classic; this could bring

some perspective probs, and, moreover, any technical prob for

cross-calculations). Colours: 256 browsersafemode, autohigh quality. Default

.swf size: 600x400. No AI templated, actually (that's the good of

multiplayer, the developer shouldn't waste time to code a reasonable

artificial intelligence).


Technical insights.

Each tournament begins from 12th; all subscribers-players will be coupled

randomly (we don't know what cgi or whatsoever else could be embedded to

automatically generate the pairs, neither we figure if such script should be

synergically working w/ the Flash game itself), at playoff-mode, 'til

final's 4ters; each new-ordered couple, from 12th to finals, will be ranked

w/in a scoreboard either before and after the results, and notified via

e-m@il (we could take notice manually about last task, if onerous and

time-wasting to comply via-coding). The win-by-forfait will be templated

too. For each will be featured: First-Name/Last-Name, Nickname (Optional),

Age, Country, E-M@il/Website URL (optionals). The players should access the

tournament only after cc processing. If possible, see how to couple

concurrently a credit card processing (we got the system provider for, the

same provider who processes all business' tasks at our site) to the

game-accessing sweeproom frames.


General behaviour's system.

Movements: if possible, would be templated two options to chose from; this

not only just from first access screen (the first page the player see before

to access the playfield), but during game too. Walk: either via-mouse or

via-keyboard arrows. Shot: either leftclick or spacebar. Specials (f. e.,

cross=left or right arrow+rightclick, lob=down arrow+rightclick, hardshot=up

arrow+rightclick): either rightclick or keyboard return + related

directions. Keyboard-related movements would be enabled by default. Fields:

parquet, cement or grass, randomly choosen, if possible. If possible too,

the players' shadows and that of the ball would be featured (we guess that

of the ball's indispensably to calculate the speed/elevation of the ball

itself). All graphics (at least those the developer will need to spare

times) will be provided by us, to spare time for the developer to code; just

are needed to us all graphics (gif-frames, icons, symbols, etc.)

specifications that the developer needs for, or we could both collaborate

half-on-half on this task, to divide the workload.


Switching to the free area.

The above specifcs vails for the tournament, which could be accessed only

after subscription (we would charge necessariously 'cause we should justify

the costs of the prizes we would deliver to the first tree qualified

winners); from the other side, though, for everyday players there will be a

free area, accessed via password-userid combo too, but just to ensure a user

's selection and to catch faithful users (to whom, occasionally, we send our

mailing list).


Considerations.

We opted, preferably, for Flash4, due that's a fast, light way to both

produce and deliver quick applications, as everybody knows. Thus, by

consequence, we would prefer this solution 'cause the gaming field would be

on-page, html-embedded, though the last word about would be that of the

programmer.

Besides the rightful honorary due to his/their job, the developer/s will be

tutelated and honoured for his/their work; he/they will have his/their own

logo on the field's margins, beside our logo, featuring along the writing "A

Realization by (Developer's Logo)". We are glad to share success with these

Kind Persons who work for us, specially if they work good.




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