For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a Flash Lite game for a mobile phone. At the moment I’m calling it Gotchi-Sim – basically because it’s a cross between a Tamagotchi and The Sims.
The game aims to help people learning English as a Second Language.
Progress to date. So far I’ve:
- done some research into what makes a good learning game (found some great reports on this!)
- developed the outline for the game
- developed the functional specs for the game and the limitations that will exist for the prototype I am designing.
- installed the Flash Lite player on my smartphone and explored some of the functionality of Flash Lite.
- installed a Flash Lite update for Flash 8 on my desktop computer
- downloaded the Flash Lite content development kit
Useful web resources I’ve been using today include:
- the text-to-speech library for Flash Lite. http://code.google.com/p/flyer/downloads/list
although, I think this will only work on phones that have symbian OS – and my phone does not. Symbian OS is mostly on Nokia phones so I think this one won’t work for me. It needs Python installed which only works under Symbian.
- Flash lite technology for mobile phones (Pace at MIT) – is a presentation on Flash lite. It outlines capabilities of each of the Flash Lite player editions. Of not, Flash Lite 2.1 has XML support. Has links to Flash Lite updates for Adobe Flash 8.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/Lectures07/MIT-FlashLite.pdf