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Security is very important in this case because you really don
t
want people cheating to win any prizes. Not only could it turn into
a big legal issue, but also it
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s just not cool.
Also, you should shoot for as much portability as you possibly
can in your advergames. Remember that if you build a game that
is successful in terms of how often it gets played and how many
users it attracts, you may be asked to build it again in another
form. If you originally built it as a feature in a microsite, it might
make sense to rebuild it in a banner that drives people to the
microsite or to even port it to the iPhone. The best way to do that
is to keep everything modular. If possible, you should have one set
of classes that can drive any one of several .fla files that contain
nothing more than different assets from one another.
Finally, AIR applications can be a very powerful form of adver-
tising because you can stay engaged with the user even after they
have left the browser. You can build applications that help them
with their productivity, provide them with information to help
them plan their day, and offer many other things that they may
need to use on a daily basis. Applications that can continue to
work without an Internet connection, but that will make sure that
all required data is correct as soon a connection is available, are
another bonus to offering AIR to your clients. And let
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snotleave
out the designers, right? The designers get to completely (and
literally) break outside the box when concepting and designing an
AIR application.
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