Grill a Bastard
This is a week or two old now, but I’m throwing it up here for posterity. Euro just launched an online campaign for the Australian Democrats (yes, they’re still around), called Bastardwatch. Created to coincide with the Australia Day weekend, part of the campaign was an appropriately BBQ-themed Flash game called Grill a Bastard. Got a bit of publicity too – SMH and The Age.
The game was built as an AS3 project in Flex Builder, with all assets sitting in a SWF created in Flash and embedded at compile time. Despite having nearly three years experience with Flex/AS3, this was my first pure AS3 project. It came together pretty quickly in around two days, although I did get stuck on one particular issue with SimpleButton for a bit. If anyone out there is still using AS2 and has yet to move up to AS3, I really recommend doing so. The display list and event system make things so much easier.
Check it out here.