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ACE Solitaire, 2009 Resolution, Happy New Year
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Saturday, January 03, 2009
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Ahhhhh the first post of a new year, Happy New Year! During the long holiday I decided to do something very different with my idle time and focused on finishing a Flash game I have worked on quietly for about 3 months called ACE Solitaire. 
Become a FAN of ACE Solitaire
ACE Solitaire was build using ActionScript 3 and leverages some earlier code written by Darron Schall during the early IFBIN and ActionScript 3 days. The codebase has been almost entirely rewritten to support the features needed in ACE Solitaire and will soon leverage the full social aspects of Facebook. Currently the social aspects are limited but there is a lot more code to release in the next 2 days before I return to work.
The game is written in pure Old School AS3 using ActionScript Project in Flex Builder. The output SWF is 19K and that includes the card graphics made in Flash CS4, tiny tiny! The game is specifically designed to allow for long gameplay (4hrs in same session) and I tested the game running for 48hrs without any memory leaks or abnormal behavior. I also had some fun building forms with just Sprite, TextField, and Drawing API which is way fun if you haven't tried it, I just love TextEvent.LINK (later post)! One unique element is that I added in imaging support into the game so the app can upload screen shots to Facebook ( bug reports, high scores, shared games ). The game is also unique in that it supports FullScreen to allow you to play ACE Solitaire taking advantage of the full desktop real estate.
My recent work at Adobe (MAX+Groups+Video+Community) has really limited my ability to write software and this project scratched a huge itch for me personally. It really made me realize that in 2009 I need to write and blog about the code I write much more often. It is my top resolution for 2009 and I get so much enjoyment out of writing code that it really isn't work for me, it is fun. I guess once an evangelist, always an evangelist. With this project in particular it really helped to be a Solitaire addict. Over the holiday I think I played over 500+ games of ACE Solitaire.
Back to code, 2 more full day sprints!
Ted :)
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Nice work on the game Ted. Happy New Years! I look forward to seeing what else you end up coding this 2009.
Nice work! Tiny is good!
Man, I just tested it (over my 3G cellphone modem), and it loaded fast! congrats. Again, tiny is good!
nice to see you coming back to the roots ted ;)
great work, release the code, you might be able to start a very interesting project of open source gaming on the FB/AS platform. great stuff