Overview
Designed to be an educational tool for Hawaii Public Schools about marine biology, this microsite contains 9 separate Flash games commissioned by NOAA . Working with a graphic artist, I hand coded the functions and animations for each game as a separate, custom project using Actionscript 3.0. The landing page is HTML5 with CSS and Javascript leveraged for the background and dropshadow animations. Due to the volume of information, the site structure uses external SWF files called into a main file for each game. By modularizing the site into dynamically loaded screens, loading times are greatly reduced. If a game section or screen needs to be modified or deleted, the rest of the site remains intact while the individual file is being updated. Also, by following this best practice of Flash development, new content can be swapped out easily without effecting the existing content library. All one has to do is point a link to the new SWF file. The old file still exists but is not loaded into a browser at runtime.