Busy Town Mysteries

18 Nov 2009

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Snapshot of the "choose a car screen" from the begining of your journey in the Busy Town. busytown-mysteries.2

Entrance to one of the four districts: "The Map".

"My Printshop" - a place where you can print a lot of goodies collected along your journey.

"My Songs" game: kind of karaoke, the kids can sing along the highlighted words.

One of the four districts of the Busy Town: Wharf. It is the starting place for three of the games: "Count It", "My Paintings" and "Garage".

AS3

Flash

Mantis

SVN

Brief

Create a preschooler environment where preschoolers can immerse and play.

The game also needed to keep track of each child’s progress.

Client

Tribal Nova, Canada

Challenges

We needed to create the whole infrastructure for navigating a 200MB environment on a regular internet connection. This meant a very careful asset management policy. Also, another challenge was the development scaffolding, (so that all developers can work in parallel).

Deployment on different environments was also an issue to be considered.

Atop of that, very tight deadlines had to be respected, even if assets were not available in time.

Solution

2 developers worked for 2 weeks on the general application architecture before any actual asset was received from the client. We created a library to handle all common task. We opted for a MVC architecture.

Timeframe

December 2008- July 2009