Finally I made a serious game

After several years in the gaming industry making mostly casual games, it was about time to give a try to serious game, right?

mef-gameMon Exploitation Forestière, only available in French at the moment, offers to the player to grow a forest. He will have to manage different tree species having their own properties (life duration, units collected, …) and cope with natural elements (fire, storm, …). The client wanted to responsibility players about the fact that a forest need to be maintain.
As cool features to develop there were saving players game in database, facebook connect and tiles’ OOP management.

Let’s start for some explanations with the latest one:
Each tile is designed into Flash Pro and inherit from a class with its properties (tree or empty tile for example). This way it’s very easy to modify it in real time, switch or even save it!
For saving the game, I’ve basically create a JSON with each tiles informations (+ score etc.), since everything is OOP it’s very easy to read its data and save it. For loading a save game it’s the same process. Load the JSON with all tiles informations and create objects.
Concerning the Facebook connect, I didn’t use at all the AS3 SDK but the php one. It’s very useful since you may use it for UI combined with JavaScript SDK. And using the php one in the backend is very safe 😉

1 thought on “Finally I made a serious game

  1. it is really good , i had tried to start working on same game like Hay Day , but it is a hug complicated game which needs time , but i’m note sure that i can do it with citrusengine !
    i’m actually working on some game for Dubai Ports , which should a serious game about managing port

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