Mac, the creater of the Lasssie Adventure Studio has a rant about how to implement the Model View Controller in flash. It’s pretty pedestrian, but I have a feeling that there are a lot of flash hackers out there who have no formal programming experience.

From the article:

“When starting a new project, the best favor you can do for yourself is
to build out your model without ever touching the display. When I
kicked off the AS3 Lassie Player, it was a solid month of just building
object structures that defined data holders, accessors, and organizers.
In that time I never put a single graphic on stage. It’s kind of a
backward way of approaching Flash as a technology – given that Flash
has gained a huge amount of its popularity through the instant
gratification standpoint of immediately getting to see pretty graphics
to tricks.”

The more important thing to take away from the article is that Mac is still developing the next generation of the Lassie Adventure Studio. It’s been a long time coming but it will be worth the wait.

The software is very near and dear to the Postmodern Sideshow. When it is released we will 1) Start work on a Sierra / SCUMM style adventure game and 2) Start working on non-game related flash content that will be like a scumm game. You wander through rooms and interact with objects, with no real goal other than to see the pretty things move and interact with eachother.

If you doubt the software’s awesomeness, try these two games that were developed using the previous version of the software. Highly recommended.

[Game: What Makes You Tick]


[Game: Nearly Departed]