Platform: Facebook
Tech: Flash, Actionscript3, Javascript
Role: Associate Developer, Senior Developer

Car Town was a Facebook social game featuring popular licensed car models and brands.  Modeled after the popular game style of Farmville, the game encouraged users to customize their garage, and amass a large collection of cutesy mini-vehicles.

Contributions

• Customizing car components like paint color, body kits, and wheels.
• Creating an art pipeline to combine individual images of pre-rendered 3D car models and characters into sprite sheets.
• Integrating new gameplay features with Facebook’s API for social connectivity.
• Adding and managing the UI components available in-game.
• I also led the development of a cross-promotional mini-game with NASCAR by taking a concept for a casual reaction racing game from prototype to production. I was quite fond of Guitar Hero at the time, so I used it as inspiration when prototyping the UX and overall feel of how the mini-game would function.  The controls were made simple in order to broaden their appeal to casual Facebook players.