Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Robin

A few weeks ago, I experimented with Robin (http://robinflash.wordpress.com/), an open source flash multiuser system. It allows users to interact simultaneously over the internet within an application. It was a little difficult to get it working at first but when it was up and running it was great. I managed to get it so that each time a new user logged on to the application's website, a unique character would be added that only that specific user could use. I also like that I was able to experiment with having the users character's interact with each other (ie hittests between characters), or to have them interact with an object that is accessible to all of them. Coming from a graphic design point of view, I was only able to do so much with it but I think it's obvious that there is potential for amazing applications.

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