When I started to work at Telaxo, My e-farm was already there. It was the main website edited of this small company, and already had a quite large community of players. My boss had developed the game, with interesting features like a progressive gameplay and a virtual but realistic economic system.
Web(re)design
After a couple of projects achieved for Telaxo, I started redesigning the My e-fam site. It had to reflect more the game aspect, and to be more immersive. Round corners and brighter colors would give the game a fun aspect. More illustrations with more background would more engage the player by giving him/her a virtual view of his/her farm.
Illustration
The game had to become more immersive, and for that, it needed more illustrations, and more backgrounds for these. The 3D-characters, animals and objects were already existing. I modified and adapted some of them, and added some others. After having set a graphic guideline, I integrated them in countryside backgrounds I created with Photoshop and the power of its scripts.
Flash & PHP
The community of players is quite active, and the often ask for new features. One of those requests was a visualization chart for their score and rankings. That’s what I did with a Flash receiving data through PHP and generating a chart. If you are logged in, access your farmer’s Office and click the chart icon. A popup opens with a Flash visualization of the evolution of your score and ranking. Scales are automatically calculated depending on your minimal and maximal score and ranking. You can also select 3 different timeviews.
