The Daily Telegraph have just launched a new Crosswords and Sudoko site called CluedUp – I built the Flex Crosswords Application. Behind the scenes it’s one of my best structured projects to date and uses the following technologies/approaches:

• Adobe Flex 3
• PureMVC MutliCore (Pipes)
• AMFPHP Remoting (for loading, saving and submitting user crossword data)

This is just phase 1 of the project. Future releases will include Sudoko, Codewords, possibly the ability to download an Adobe AIR desktop version of the system, Multiplayer – how cool would it be to be able to complete a crossword puzzle with your friend via a multiplayer version of the game?!

I think you have to register a trial account to play the game so here are a few screengrabs…

When the user initially selects a crossword the board/clues are blurred until they begin

The custom crossword board component subclasses the Flex DataGrid component

When you exit a crossword the application checks whether you have unsaved changes

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I can’t claim much involvement in this project apart from a bit of AMFPHP remoting consultancy and optimization but it’s a cool site work taking a look at, Flex side developed by my 2 co-senior Flex Devs – Paddy Keane and Martin McBrearty from my agency – World Archipelago Internet

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More info on Paddy’s Blog

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