New to Flash MMF2 - a few questions

Hi,
I have just started working on a flash game with MMF and I have a few questions -

I have read about making money from flash games via sponsorship (flash games license) these seem to require a preloader - are these just info screens about the actual sponsors or are they something more fancy (based on the sponsors requests). Is there currently a way to create these pre-loaders in MMF?

If I was to create a high score screen how would I go about getting a high score table online - and are there ways of testing this (online) before I release the game?

Any information, tutorials etc to answer these questions would be very helpful.

Thanks

Hi Deke15. Sponsors usually want you to stick an .flv file on the front of your game. StephenL's External Files object lets you do that in a few clicks.

As for a highscore screen, the Mochi Highscores extension lets you do that. You can just create a highscore in the Mochi control panel and hook it up to the extensions. The Help files explain how to do this, it's all very easy, and you can test it by building a .swf anytime.

Pre-loaders are the animations that play while the game is loading and the progress bar is displayed. In MMF2 Standard you can only change the background image, but in Dev you have full control by using another application as a pre-loader.

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Hi Deke15. Sponsors usually want you to stick an .flv file on the front of your game. StephenL's External Files object lets you do that in a few clicks.

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Has anyone used this solution, do sponsors accept it?

Just to clarify, it needs to be an swf file for my extension. You can use the FLV object to play a flv file in your app. :) And yes, this seemed to work fine for Eliyahu.

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Just to clarify, it needs to be an swf file for my extension. You can use the FLV object to play a flv file in your app.

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Whoops, my mistake!

so to put a sponsors SWF file as a preloader, I need to create a new MFA with Flash External Files extension, link it to their swf then in my main application use the newly created MFA as a preloader?

That's how I see it: you either load the sponsor's SWF from an external source OR use their logo, sound, animations and links to build an MMF app which looks like the original preloader.

Is this correct?

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OR use their logo, sound, animations and links to build an MMF app which looks like the original preloader.

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This is what i've done for my games.

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you either load the sponsor's SWF from an external source

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I don't think that would really work as for that SWF to show you would already have had to loaded the SWF... UNLESS you did this in a MMF preloader and just added the loading bar underneath (or on top of??) the SWF.

Steve

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you either load the sponsor's SWF from an external source

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I don't think that would really work as for that SWF to show you would already have had to loaded the SWF...

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You're right, this doesn't make sense. How would we use the External Files Object properly?

I just bought the Flash Exporter for my MMF2. I have created many games that I want to save into Flash format. I have no idea how to get started. Any advise would help me a lot, like how to start. Please help!

See my other post for the same question you ask.

Marv