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The DragonOS is a suite of web-based content management tools for managing Dragon Alliance’s unique global markets. The site and OS is built with scalability in mind, with users able to customize each page with unique backgrounds and content to create a branded lifestyle driven site that can change easily when the product line calls for it. Content can be created globally or created for a specific region or country in mind, creating a coherent global website all under the umbrella of the super-cool Dragon brand.

Pathfinders is a platforming game created around a contest held on the whodouwant2b.com website. The object is to climb as high as you can while grabbing icons for points and answering trivia which earns you tickets in the raffle for prizes every month.

Play the game on WhoDoUWant2b.com

The characters were created and animated using flash and illustrator. The game engine itself is based in AS3 and an ASRA (A Simple RESTful API) deployment powers the MySQL backend and high score data/display.

As part of the development team responsible for the new 2k site, I was tasked with creating the flash assets. This included a home page feature module that handles photos, videos and swf files; a games page that makes dynamically creating custom flash file a snap (including video assets and photos for games); and a papervision based carousel that dynamically renders box art from flat graphics. The video player is a custom job that can be reused at any size, rendering the controls dependent on size.

Content is pulled from the database using ASRA (A Simple RESTful API) and parsed as XML in Flash. Papervision is used to create the 3D objects and position them in space when clicked.

WWE Rocker is a flash game created for the WWE Music Group and Columbia Records. Featuring wrestlers from the ECW show, the game pits you against them on 14 levels featuring each wrestlers’ entrance music. The object of the game is to time key-presses with the passing of the colored chairs over the “hit” point.

Besides the application as a whole, development included creating the game logic as well as the design of the effects and some audio production. The challenges in this project included figuring out an effective way to trap multiple key-presses at once without firing an event for each key and attempting to find workarounds for Firefox and Safari not notifying flash objects that they’ve lost keyboard focus (Event.DEACTIVATE does not work!) on Mac.

BKWLD created for Dragon a mini-site promoting their sunglasses with polarized lenses. The center-piece was a bit of agitprop, black and white "exploitation" film. XML was used as content to drive a highly animated, Flash/Actionscript 3.0 built application. Next up is Dragon’s main website!