Googly face.. its for the kids.

So googly face has not by any means had the number of installs I had hoped... 9 so far!
..I really need to work on that... Its not a bad app really?? especially when its free!
But what was quit humbling and put a smile on my face (googly face) was when Nicola (my ball un chain) told me her niece who is 3years old asked out of the blue, to play on googly face... Nice that! And its nice to see the kids I have watched using it roll over laughing and argue about whos turns next..

So the download numbers or disappointing.. But for the ones I have seen with the app, makes me that little bit more proud of googly face.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googleeyes

Googly face v1.5 - Tash pack

Just released a new version of Googly face.
Every one seemed to love the moustache you could add in the previous version, so I have spent the week drawing up a few new ones. The "tashes" when in play mode animate in some way are form. Should keep the kids occupied for a bit.. and grown ups.

Ive also added a bit more polish to the modification screen. Items now animate onto the screen with a sound effect.

I've changed one of the hair items as well, looks better now

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googleeyes

Introducing googly face

So This week I released my first proper app. Googly face.
Its an app that's aimed at parents that need to entertain there children for a while. It certainly seems to work. Most children I have shown it to seem to love it. In fact my girl friends brothers kids would not go to sleep until they made one last "googly face".

I was really excited to get it out on the market... maybe a little to excited. some of the graphics on release were a little ropey. Something I'm looking to rectify over the coming months. I don't like the hair types.. I could really to do with a proper illustrator to do some "hair" illustrations for me.

Googly face has taken me best part of 4-5 months to develop. I worked on it on evenings and weekends. But with distractions... Thats the problem when working at home at a table in a room that looks directly into the living room, theirs always something on the telly or a video game to distract you. So its actually kind of hard to say exactly how many hours I have put into it. I think its allot though.

Allot has been over coming issues with a new language. Googly face is built using the corona sdk. Corona uses a language called lua. In some respects its been easy as, as a flash developer I can easily relate to lua... But lua is not ummmm a particularly strict language.. is strict the right word? maybe.
Basically I'm used to working with instances of code blocks... classes. My brain is very much wired to work like that. Something I found hard  to adjust to in lua.
But I can talk about that in another post some other time!


I've not really said what it does have I!
In brief googly face allows you to...

• select a photo from camera of gallery on a mobile device
• position and resize that image
• add various cartoon like parts to that image. That might be a pig nose, googly eyes, a tash ect.
• when a user presses the the play button these parts come to life. They animate, they play sound, they do stuff when pressed ect.

But take a look for your selves at the below link...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googleeyes 

Understand mobile advertising terms.

I found this table of term and definition helpful when getting to grips with mobile advertisement terms

A full and up to date mobile advertising glossary for terms used across the industry | Adfonic:

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LocalConnection example in Actionscript 3.0

So I need a means for communication between two swfs on one client. I first looked at using a local socket connection. Not sure how that would work. which swf would be the host? can swf be the host?

Any how, found this..

works perfect just need to implement it now!

Actionscript and Flex examples: LocalConnection example in Actionscript 3.0:

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