Dec
26
This is actually very rare. In all this years I’ve done very few flash games, but this one is my favorite by far. Telecel a cell phone company wanted a Flash Game that allowed their customers to participate by sending SMS Text Messages onto a big screen. We came up with the idea of a penalty shot with 9 coordinates.
The costumer had to pick a number between 1-9 and send it over SMS to a specific number. The system would receive the request and then Virtual Player would kick the ball to the desired coordinate. Everything sounded great but: 1) We didn’t had ANY budget to get actors and produce the photo shoot, and obviously because of that, 3D was also out of the picture and 2) We only had 2 weeks until the big expo where they were expecting to display the game at the big screen on their booth.
“Hey Martin, here’s an idea. Why don’t we get a $ 50 goalie equipment, dress you up and I kick the ball and shoot the photos”
Yes, as you imagine, Martin ended up as the goalie, and I took the photos with a cheapo tripod and a digital camera. We got a permit from a local stadium (which looked like crap at that time, which means I had to digital correct tons of stuff, see below) and we shot the entire sequence in 3 afternoons. By the time we finished Martin had bruises all over.
The net had to be digitally removed and then put it back digitally in order to place Telecel’s advertisings on the billboards. Also, every frame of the goalie had to be photoshoped, croped and treated as layers. That was definitively the most time consuming part of the whole process. Oh yeah, that and putting everything together, actionscript and all in Flash MX.
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