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Its not often that I get a client’s game released. Few times in the past I have worked on games that never saw the light of day – and this isn’t one of them.

So I’m taking the opportunity to show off a project I’m involved in that got published recently as a Facebook game.

Lottorace Facebook page

This project is  made of server side and client side. The client side is Flash, and several packages where used to create it. It’s based on Flex 4 with Spark controls, uses Robotlegs as mvcs framework and makes use of Facebook API for connectivity.

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If your game or application is too large to fit, or too slow, then you may be in a position to rethink the usage of Flex SDK.
Part 1 discussed the motivations to try and skip the Flex SDK on certain projects. While it focused on the why, this time it will focus on the how – what can actually be done and how.

So our project needs only basic layouts and some simple controls. One option would be to roll our own controls and layouts, and while that is certainly a possibility, it does not save us any time. A better option would be to take advantage of an existing library, preferably small and light weight.
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I needed a simple spark button with only an icon – basically a bitmap made into a button. The problem is that I have lots of these buttons, each with a different icon – and all the skin samples use hard-coded assets.

Well, the old Button class used to have an icon style (it was called skin or upSkin) so I decided to bring back the icon style so I’d be able to reuse the same skin and pass a different icon to each instance.
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Flex is often taken for granted when implementing flash/AS3  projects. However it is not mandatory to use Flex on the flash platform. Not only that, its not always the preferred solution for most RIAs.

In this post, I will cover a few alternatives to Flex while staying in the realm of Actionscript and Flash. Yes, this may sound strange from someone who makes his living using Flex, but there are situations when Flex can become a liability.
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