Let me tell you about one of the biggest project we’ve done so far.
Imagine huge virtual worlds depicted with pixel-art style with over 30 games and activities. With hundreds of children visiting it every day – that’s what we did with our friends from HexagonIT.
The project is called “Children’s Church” and that’s exactly what it is – a virtual church for children, full of fun and educational at the same time.
We’ve created a sophisticated engine in Flash, which supports multi-user interaction (using Flash Media Server) and enables over 30 flash games to be played (each of them skillfully crafted by BlackMoon’s team). Of course the virtual world is a living space, so we’ve made adding new games or special activities painless.
There’s some sweet pixel-art based graphics for the main app and for all the games, so the whole world get’s a really nice “retro” flavour.
The whole pixel world image is beneath the link (please note that this image is huge!)
There are many rooms – each with it’s own funtion. For example – the crypt is full of games.
There are many different kinds of games – each testing player agility or wits.
When some major church events are coming (like Christmas or Easter) we add some new activities corresponding to the event.
The children can explore the colorful and little fantastic world.
There’s a school where teachers can have a live virtual Sunday School class
Of course the main purpose of the church – praying, is also included
There are really quite a lot of different rooms for children to play with.
The service is totally in finnish, so unfortunatelly it’s rather hard to play all those games if you’re outside of Finland (there’s a very high protection, as the multi-user service for kids needs a special care).
At last – this project took a lot of effort from BlackMoon employees and collabolators. I would like to give them huge kudos for the great work here.