I just finished another project for the BBC and this time for CBBC a slightly older audience.
The game was part of an existing suit of multiplayer games so it had to be built in flash but they also wanted a mobile version which meant I would have to port it to HTML5.
Having to go back to flash after half a year doing JavaScript felt like a bit of a step backwards but as my JavaScript workflow is very similar to our old flash workflow this wasn’t much of a problem. I build the game with the JavaScript version in mind and so the porting process would be easy, I think it initiall only took a day or two to port.
Of course things are never that easy and from that point on, both versions of the game had to be maintained and any unforseen changes had to be applied to both versions.
This is my first match three game since Molar Mind which was quite some time ago and technically a Match Two game. I’m pretty happy with the results and playing multiplayer is always more fun.
Play the Flash multiplayer version here or the Html5 mobile version here.
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