Steve Lombardi -- Design, Photography, and Coding

Create Your Own Recipe 2.0 – Salad

Steve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:35:23 +0000

This is an updated version of the CYOR shown below, with a new look that was made possible by the skinning features in Flash Builder 4. The original Photoshop design was first opened in Flash Catalyst, and this was used to build components and skins to use in the final Flash Builder app.

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Create Your Own Menu – Thanksgiving

Steve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:42 +0000

Another Flex/Flash Builder 4 application, a Thanksgiving menu maker. You can select recipes for your meal and get a shopping list and timeline.

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The Farmer’s Market Game

Steve — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:08:09 +0000

The Farmer’s Market game is a Flex-based game I made for Fine Cooking. This game was built entirely using the Flash Builder 4 beta.

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The Inspector Game

Steve — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:36:06 +0000

An interactive game for Fine Homebuilding where the player can act like an “inspector” and click on the items in the photograph that are unsafe or not up to code. I created this in such a way that new version can be done by just providing two new photos (correct and mistakes).

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Woodworking Quiz Game

Steve — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:27:53 +0000

This is the Fine Woodworking version of the quiz below for Fine Cooking. Swapping the XML file and changing some graphics and CSS in Flex allowed me to re-use the same code.

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Kitchen Quiz Game

Steve — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:22:05 +0000

A simple quiz for Fine Cooking. I created an XML-driven engine using Adobe Flex that we were able to use with multiple skins for several of our sites. Web producers are able to easily update the questions by simply editing the XML.

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Fresh Match Game

Steve — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:01:08 +0000

An updated version of the match game that I coded in Flex. This version was designed to also allow for images that are not identical, but only related. Also I integrated Google Analytics and broke it down into more easily maintained components.

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Botanical Match Game

Steve — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:16:05 +0000

A simple Flash-based picture-matching game created for Finegardening.com.

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Create Your Own Recipe

Steve — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:28:49 +0000

This is one of a series of online applications for Fine Cooking that allows members to create a recipe by dragging and dropping ingredients. You can adjust the recipe and then print it out or save it to your “favorites” on the site. This was built in Flex with the data in XML, and it integrates with a dot net web service for saving.

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Design Your Own Sewing Room Game

Steve — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:37:00 +0000

A Flash-based game that allows entrants to design a sewing room from a choice of decor options including furniture and equipment from the game’s sponsors. I created all the art for the background and incorporated photos from the sponsors. I then assembled and coded the whole thing in Flex 3 in about a week.

The game has proven very successful, with over 5000 entries in less than a month, greatly increasing the site’s traffic and memberships. It has been the largest traffic draw the site has ever had.

Play it Yourself!