Re: FLASH: test: Funtivity.com

[Stephen]

Excellent stuff here... nice idea... only one thing... it would be good if

the user can go back when choosing their features, intead of having to cycle

through all of it and then prolly missing the one you want again... :p hehe



Stephen




> -----Original Message-----

>

From: DSG [dsgstrickland [dot] com (mailto:dsgstrickland [dot] com)]

> Sent: 17 October 2000 04:15

> To: flash

> Subject: FLASH: test: Funtivity.com

>

>

> Hey everyone,

>

> It's been a while since I last posted to the list, I'm glad to see it's

> still intact.

>

> I've been working on a personal project for some time now.  It is a

> community for children to show off their art work and stories to their

> peers. The unique way that I'm hoping to build community has been lifted

> from the old Sierra Network, TSN, INN (and it's other many name

> changes).  For those of you that don't remember/know, users could create

> a character (avatar) that represents themselves to the other users.  An

> idea that is not new, but using it through out a web site I hope is.

>

> For instance, if you create a character and upload some art, who ever

> views it will see your avatar by it.  And so on.

>

> The avatars are flash files that contain different hair styles, mouths,

> eyes, etc.  When you save a character, frame numbers that represent

> those attributes are saved to a database, so that when called, the

> avatar can be built.

>

> If you guys could be so kind as to pound around on it, and perhaps

> upload an image or two, maybe conjure up a whimsical story to add, I'd

> own you all a big favor.

>

> Some of it is still in development, but 99% of it is working. Mostly,

> graphical work needs to be done to make it a little easier for kids to

> get what's going on.  I'm no expert on any of this, so any comments are

> definitely welcome. Also, I've been developing on a mac with netscape

> 4.7, so any preemptive trouble shooting pointed at good ol' IE/Win would

> be super helpful.

>

> Down the road I'm hoping to build multi-user games that further take

> advantage of the avatar community...

>

> This was semi posted (hinted at) on the flash/database list a few weeks

> ago, so sorry for any duplicates any of you might have received.

>

> thanks a ton,

>

> dsg

>



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