Ten Tips to develop Flash Lite games
Posted on January 15, 2008
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There is a new article available on the Adobe Mobile and Devices Developer Center.
This article of Mariam Dholkawala is not specific to any Flash Lite version and talks about how to better develop Flash Lite games.
In this article Mariam combined a set of 10 tips which she thinks would be of help to developers.
Here the 10 tips suggested:
1 – Always start with a base build and then port it to for multiple devices
2 – Follow intuitive and correct key navigation and controls
3 – Avoid hard-coding values and use variables and logic while writing code
4 – Use old school collision detection methods
5 – Choose between Frame based and Time based ActionScript
6 – Maintain game progress and scores thus adding incentives for user participation
7 – Keep your code organized and easy to maintain with classes
8 – Choose the right font for your games
9 – Replace arrays with strings in Flash Lite 1.1
10 – Testing on actual device