see what our interactive developers are doing

Sandbox is the Terralever experimental playground. Find snippets we've developed and feel others can use. Some things may be rough around the edges, but hey, it's a sandbox!

facebook applications

• the photo flipbook

We built an application on the Facebook Platform that allows users to interact with online photos in a cool new way. Instead of grouping pictures into a single page, the Photo Flipbook takes existing photo albums and displays them as if they are in a book. You can show the photo's caption, change the background, and flip through each interactive album by clicking each page.

How it works: The Photo Flipbook leverages the Flex Framework and Flash 9 to create a richer multimedia experience. Using the Facebook Platform, Terralever's custom ActionScript API makes applications that integrate with your user's lifestyle. Flash applications also allow more complex user interaction without sacrificing usability. This provides functionality within Facebook's application, and in a secure, user-friendly fashion.

silverlight

• zero gravity

Introducing "Zero Gravity", our new mind-bending adventure featuring the lovable and lost astronaut, Lieutenant Bennett. To build this game, we used Silverlight Technology with the Microsoft Expression suite, along with a few other tools.

"Zero Gravity" was built using the C# language. Considering this is Beta Tech, we relied on a few of our own tricks to make the game exactly how we wanted. To help reduce the size of the xaml files over the wire, we used compression. We also created a pre-loader that would load our assets to provide a better user experience. In addition to our own assets, we used info on the Silverlight forums and the community's code to get a leg up. We will certainly be giving back to the community through articles and code samples.

The result is an addictively fun game that has it all: animation, sound, video, quality gameplay, and over twenty levels of cosmic adventure.