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The South Magazine

BFG Interactive recently launched a new site for The South Magazine.

I built all of the flash pieces for the site, including ad rotators, media players and image galleries.

BFG

I’m the VP and senior developer at BFG Interactive, the interactive division of BFG Communications, and we just recently launched a new company site.

The site is a hybrid of html, AJAX, and Flash which had to to an existing extranet for some content, provide deep linking, and be visually dynamic… so the technical challenges were great, but we’re very proud of the final outcome. I did a great deal of the Flash work throughout the site, along with a great team of designers and other developers.

I recently got an invitation to join FlashJuggler.com as an author.

Basically, it looks like the site is duplicating what FlashDen is doing, but there are a few noticeable differences so far.

First, and biggest, authors start out with %50 commission on their sales.. on FlashDen, it takes quite a bit to get to %50, and you have to be an exclusive author.

You can set your own prices, which is cool, vs FlashDen, and they’ve setup their submission process to mirror FlashDens so putting files on both sites (or moving files from one to the other) is really simple.

The site is currently in ALPHA, and is constantly undergoing improvements, so it’s a little rough around the edges, but I think it’ll turn out to be pretty nice.
The email I got from them said that they haven’t done any marketing yet (because they’re trying to get initial authors and content setup) so I’d imagine sales on the site will be pretty low until the marketing kicks in.

Check out the site, buying or selling because I have a feeling A LOT of the FlashDen authors will be posting stuff here, and since you can set your own price and get a better commission, I’d imagine the prices will be better for those who are looking to buy files..

After much coaxing from some peers, I setup an account with FlashDen.net to sell some of my Flash projects that I’ve developed over the years.

The first one I’ve published is called FlashMatch, and it’s a simple Memory -style matching game, complete with XML driven configuration, so you can customize and add your own images to the “cards”.

I’ve submitted the files, so it should be available on the site in the next few days.

If you’re interested in stuff I’m developing, keep an eye on http://flashden.net/user/iLikeToMakeStuff for future updates.

Kid Didits

December 8, 2006 My Work Comments

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BFG Interactive recently launched a new site for Kid-Didits, a test product for Mars Candy company.

I built several Flash pieces, including 2 stand alone games. The site was built for both kids, and their parents, so we got to do a wide range of levels of interactivity to keep both groups invested in the site.