As I generally earn my keep these days playing with Flash, I thought it only fair to dedicate a large portion of the site to a flash applet that in some way integrates with the design of the site. Well, after thinking long and hard about what exactly the flash applet should do, I have condensed it’s job down to three essential functions. Firstly, to play music and movies – this is a multimedia site after all – secondly, to suck in RSS feeds and display them visually one at a time, and thirdly to integrate with the html and AJAX so that it can display relevant animations depending on where you are on the site.
The challenge is to make a visually interesting, well designed and seamless site, where pressing mp3s or flv links in the html allows them to play in the flash, as well as showing load animations for the bored user. As Flash animation is popular, there is going to have to be some animation (however subtle).
So far there is a dancing robot who has a TV for a belly, a shifty looking ninja and a pig with a jetpack. I’m just playing for now 