Flash! Ah-aaah!

An interesting presentation of a collaborative online ‘game’, Q-CSI, from Questacon in Australia using Flash Communication Server. Nice humorous delivery (typically Aussie, really), and in many ways it looked pretty cool - check it out yourself. Of course there are many issues associated with using Flash, of which the developers are well aware. I wonder if there might be another way of achieving the same sort of collaborative interactivity without Flash. I suspect that even if there were it would be expensive to develop, and even thinking about how you might do it is well beyond my limited skillset.

Hmmm, I ought to ask Andrew and Angus about using this idea though. I’m sure they would both be interested, and maybe we could get some funding…

3 Responses to “Flash! Ah-aaah!”

  1. Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museum Blog Round Up: 2 Says:

    [...] In other blogs…The The Pulitzer blog at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis provides a tour of their Underbelly. Hangingtogether.org has posted on the Metropolitan’s Scholars’ License this is second time we’ve heard about STEVE in a week. The Curator’s Egg says “Flash! Ah-aaah!” as they look at the collaborative online ‘game” put together by our friend Geoff Crane and Questacon in Australia. The Museumpro.org is gone? No they are All New and Coming Soon. [...]

  2. Geoff Crane Says:

    Well that’s better than “Flash! AAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!”

    Glad you liked the presentation, and the project.

  3. Pete Says:

    I think the project nicely illustrates the difference between ‘Flash for a purpose’ and ‘Flash because we can’ (or indeed, all too often, ‘you’re getting Flash, because we’re groovy graphic artists, not web designers, and Flash is what we do’).

    *Apologies for the delay in all this appearing - your comment somehow got into the Akismet loop for my other personal blog. But moderation is now off, so we’ll see how things go.