Flash is a fantastic technology that, when leverage the right way, can make your website, mobile application, or desktop application appear better than any other enterprise level software on the market for a fraction of the price. Like any tool, you just need to know how and when to use it.
With the introduction of AS3 and Flash CS5, we are able to pull off more than ever before. One of the most exciting new features is the ability to publish to the web, to the iPhone, to android, or to the desktop almost simultaneously. We can now have the ability to use AS3 in our projects in ways that no other platform can, and we can do it cheaply. Below are a few different projects that will give you an idea of what is possible on this powerful platform.
Case Studies
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CASE STUDY
Ghost Hunters
The best use of Flash for the web is when a project requires more dramatic effects than what is offered by JavaScript or access to robust libraries like live streaming. The producers of Ghost Hunters required both for a Halloween project that we completed in 2009 and remains one of our favorites. They provided us a map of an old asylum on which we registered several hot-spots. Users could click on the map and learn about that area of the asylum while watching live, behind the scenes shooting of the episode. It was a fantastic project that could only be completed in Flash.
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Tillman, Allen, Greer
There is a hot debate on the web surrounding the best way to deliver videos to end users. To us, we simply want to reach the most customers possible in the easiest way possible. Unfortunately, due to conflicts of choosing a single video format for the web, the browser companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla have made it impossible to choose only one format and reach almost everyone. Our philosophy is to use a combination of Flash and HTML5 video to reach the most users with the content our customers have worked so hard to create. Tillman, Allen, Greer is a fantastic example of a heavy video creator that needs to reach customers on their desktop, iPad, iPhone, and Android device with minimal hassle. With our custom Flash and HTML5 video players, we provided just that, reaching all of those platforms with a single video codec.
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CASE STUDY
Stufund
Stufund provides student loans and asked us to work with Micstura, one of their partners in Miami, to create a sister applications to an iPhone application Micstura was going to complete. They wanted to simplify the process of estimating how much money a student could receive from his FAFSA application. We created a Flash-powered desktop application that completed this task on the AIR framework. This allowed us to write a fully functioning desktop application for Windows, OSX, and Linux at the same time. With AIR we can deploy changes quickly with automatic updates, secure the application with encryption, and now push to Android and iPhone devices.
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BlazeSports
Something Flash has been suited for since day one is creating custom web-based games. Recently, we teamed up with Mighty 8th Media to create four games for Blaze Sports, a sports league for physically disabled children. Each game's goal is to educate kids about this amazing sports league.
Traditional Web-based Flash
Video on the Web with Flash
Flash for Desktops
Flash Games
