One of the aspects of “Agile Development” is to quickly change to meet market needs.  MochiAds is sponsoring a contest with a $5000 grand prize for using their Leaderboards API.  In addition, FreeSpin3D is sponsoring an additional $5000 prize for the game that best uses their technology in this contest.

I am very fortunate to not have upgraded to Flash CS4 because FreeSpin3D requires the use of Flash CS3.  In addition, to use the FreeSpin3D ActionScript API, it requires the use of ActionScript 3.0 because of performance issues with ActionScript 2.0.  All in all, FreeSpin3D is a very powerful product.

FullSpin3D isn’t a full 3D-engine, rather it is a component that can be used inside a Flash file to load and display low polygon models.  It took me a good week to get a solid grasp on how to use the API and program behaviors using ActionScript 3.0, and I believe that it is a very viable tool – especially in game development.

Unfortuantely, due to the nature of the contest, I will not be posting iterative builds until the contest is over.  But rest assured, once the contest is complete I will unlock the development iterations to see the process in creating this Flash game.