Actionscript outsourcing

What exactly do you mean by Actionscript outsourcing?

In a MVC slang, Actionscript outsourcing takes care of the C (controller) part of a game, website or banner. It might also integrate the Model part, but when the application needs to be persistent, the data is stored into a database and there are much better tools than Actionscript to handle this. Adobe Flash is usually the View part of the whole assembly.

Although we do develop Flash movieclips, this is taken care of by different people, with graphic design background. The Actionscript team is entirely composed of programmers.

Is there a MVC framework you use?

We use PureMVC framework for our game development projects. For websites and banners, we don’t use any standard framework.

How big is your Actionscript development team?

At the moment, the team is formed of 6 AS developers and 1 tester.

AS2, AS3. Is there a difference?

Yes, there’s a big difference! We do prefer to work in AS3 for its OOP features that are missing from AS2. However, we have developed many games in AS2 as well.

What about development tools?

As a source control and versioning system, we currently use SVN, but have used CVS and Microsoft Source Safe.

For project management, we have used several tools, such as JIRA, Mantis, Flyspray and Qwarp (our in-house developed time management solution).

Read more about our development tools.

Can you specify some previous projects you worked on?

The most relevant projects developed in Flash are for Tribal Nova. Among them, Busy Town Mysteries has its own public address, but there are many other games with Thomas and Friends, Bob the Builder and Bo on the Go. We have also developed many games for Ogilvy & Mather Romania: Milka, Ikea, Kinder and others.

You can also view the list of all our AS3 and AS2 projects.

Anything special you’d like to mention?

We like creating libraries. The newest is a library that allows sequences of animations to be synchronized (among them AND with sounds). This library provides tremendous help in game creation.