It’s been forever since I’ve posted over here, so, quick update.
For the last month I’ve been working on a game designed to teach teens some consumer skills. It’s bankrolled by the National Consumer’s League and is … almost … really cool.
Anyway it’s bee a lot of php which has been good experience. Also some XML and Flash, another two things that are good to work on.
One thing I’ve really enjoyed about the project is having some say in experience decisions (mostly because I build it up 
). But working on something that’s designed for kids is an interesting problem space that I haven’t thought about a whole lot before.
A big part of the project has been reworking some exsisting php to allow for the rapid rebranding and re-deployment of the game. For example, we used to just offer the game to high school students in the fall, but now we’ve got rebranded versions for a spring semester competition, as well as for middle school students. Re-purposing the existing code has taught me a great deal about architecture for this site of web application.
Ok… now to fix the last round of bugs, yeah right.
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glad to know you’re still alive. you should check out plexipixel. they have a ton of great stuff that they worked on around flash games for kids. could be inspiring. anyways, back to school work. i bet you’re soooo glad you don’t have to do this kinda *ish anymore.
drink. soon. please?
Yeah PlexiPixel is great, we’re working with them on a different project right now. Drink. Yes.Let’s have a tequila project meetup.