Thanks to everyone that came to my session. I was really pleased by the turn out! I hope I didn’t go too fast as I tried to make it through the waaaay too much material I prepared. I guess a few years of preparing for 3-hour classes did me a bit of a disservice.

I’ve made a page hosting the FLAs from my presentation “Flash Lite: Making it Fit” from Flash Forward NYC. This includes a tank game called Pellet Pop and the NYC Traffic Cam viewer. I hope the files are useful to you guys!

In the FLAs there is a final version of the traffic cam app, but also a “before” version. The reason for including the early version is that NYC Traffic was actually my first Flash Lite app, and I’ve learned a lot since then. If you compare and contrast the files you will see how there is actually a lot less actionScript in the FLA than originally. Approaching Flash Lite problems now as a Flash 7 developer, I tended to oversimplify things, making the code a lot more verbose than it needed to be. Six months later, much better solutions seemed far more obvious.

As for Pellet Pop, it is a game prototype, not a full game. It does however have some good techniques for getting around the lack of Math object as well as breaking up actions over multiple frames while hiding the delays with animation.

If anyone has a question about the files, feel free to comment on this post, but better if you comment the presentation page.