Dec 20
We built this very simple mini site for the Tinine group using Adobe’s Business Catalyst as the back end system which combines CMS + CRM (and many other features) into the one product. Once again Design Identity contracted Code and Visual to fulfill their design into a working content managed site.
Javascript and jQuery were [...]
Dec 14
Seasons Greetings! - to celebrate the time of year Actionsprite has released a special holiday version of Tooth’n’Claw on miniclip. There’s snow, there’s presents, there’s puppies and kittens - and there’s devious snow men! Help Sam and Cody rescue all the pets before it’s too late and grab the rewards.
So while it’s still the season [...]
Nov 16
Josephine Lie contacted Code and Visual after having us recommended to her by one of our previous happy clients. As part of her project about the 2010 eruption of Merapi, Josephine had decided to compile her videos and interviews of the residents around Merapi into an interactive map.
By using Rainbow we were easily able to [...]
Sep 19
During the recent optimisation and performance experiments I have been building for running Flash/Air on iOS, it became important to develop a way to have dynamic text display that wasn’t going to slow down performance on the device.
For instance if you are building a game and need to display the players score on screen [...]
Sep 1
We’re happy to announce that Tooth’N’Claw has been launched on the world’s biggest Flash games site, Miniclip. Go and have a play now while it’s enjoying front page status!
Tooth’N’Claw is a classic platformer game with cute modern graphics, even if I do say so myself.
Technically speaking the game uses blitting quite extensively with all [...]
Aug 31
Code and Visual was contracted by Design Identity to build the Style HQ site using slick javascript interactivty with an Expression Engine back end.
The site makes extensive use of jQuery to provide slick animation and interactivty that would have previously required Flash. Style HQ is a fashion wholesaler and their website required a range of [...]
Aug 28
I’ve been working with Flash on the iPhone for a few months now, and although I’ve successfully released a game on the App Store (check out The Hypnotist), I’ve spent most of my time experimenting and trying to discover ways of optimising code and working out just how to get the best performance out of [...]
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Flash Development
Code and Visual provide contracted and outsourced Flash and web development solutions for a range of clients both large and small. With all the talk about HTML 5 for the web and working with native code on devices, Code and Visual still have a strong enthusiasm for the Flash platform and the many current [...]
Aug 24
What is Parallax?
For those of you who don’t know what parallax is, the best way to describe it is the way objects in the background tend to move less than objects closer to the viewer. Here’s a wiki link for something more indepth. Side scrolling 2D games provide the perfect opportunity to use the effect, [...]
Jul 27
George Patterson Y&R contracted Code and Visual to complete and clean up the development of the Mighty Artline site on a very tight deadline. This involved re-implementing swfAddress and succesfully rebuilding the drawing function which is central to the site concept.
The site also implements Code and Visual’s cutsom form kit which streamlines the production [...]
