alternate reality game

EagleEye Freefall

SITE: http://www.eagleeyefreefall.com
ROLE: Senior Developer (at 17FEET)
TECH: Actionscript 3 (OOP), Jabber/Openfire Chat Server, PHP, Javascript/jQuery

EagleEyeFreefall.com – an award-winning adventure site for the movie Eagle Eye – is an alternate reality game where players interact with the site via their mobile phones to explore the back story of the movie. The integration between the user's phone input and the site is what makes this site stand out and popular amoung the movie fans.

My tasks:

• research and test communication options between Flash and phone server
• synchronize Flash audio/visual/video elements with user's phone interactions
• develop PHP polling backup to chat system
• configure Rackspace server including Openfire server install
• build form validation (jQuery)