So it’s finally live. Introducing the Mason Zimbler Christmas spectacular… ‘Racing Reindeer’. We’ve given you £1000 (virtual) pounds to have a flutter at our reindeer races. Customise your avatar, place your bets and play against your friends in real-time. Get on over to http://racingreindeer.mzl.com and join in the festive fun!
It’s been a massive collaborative effort from the whole studio this one, pretty much everybody’s had a hand in this one at some stage and it’s been a massive learning experience. The Christmas card is traditionally something we get a little more freedom on to try out some new things and push ourselves a bit but this year really takes the cake.
Russ and I have been hammering the ActionScript to get this all working in time for Christmas so we’ll be posting a few run-downs on the new and cool stuff we used in the New Year. Here’s a brief taster of some of the stuff we’ve been playing with and will hopefully get some posts up about:
- Union – This was a biggy. Moock’s Union platform was a key part of getting this concept off the ground. It handled all the multi-user aspects.
- Red5 streaming – Liam put in some sterling work building our own streaming-video server to handle the video load and synchronising streams between multiple users. We encountered some not-inconsiderable gotchas and issues with dealing with rtmp streams and Red5′s quirks too.
- PureMVC – not our first go round with PureMVC but my first real experience with what’s becoming our framework of choice.
- AfterEffects/Video work – not sure there’s a post in this but it was fun!
That’s mostly what comes to mind now but we’ll be back with more details once the dust has settled.
For now though, have a great Christmas and enjoy the races!