I have a browser MMO which has a Flash client written in AS2. Currently we have some issues:
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The game’s performance is terrible. For what it’s doing it shouldn’t be this slow. So far I’ve been unable to improve it. I believe converting the game to AS3 may help. Also the game doesn’t use a bitmap rendering engine, everything is in movieclips etc. Converting everthing to a bitmap system is something I’d be interested in.
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We have some serious issues with keyboard & mouse input. For some reason the game will experience terrible input lag in Internet Explorer (and sometimes in other browsers). By setting the movie’s base framerate to a low number (currently 18) I’ve been able to somewhat reduce this problem but not completely fix it. Also setting the base framerate to 18 severely reduces the game’s performance. I would ideally like to have it set to 120. For more info on this problem see: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-542. It’s possible converting to a bitmap engine or AS3 may fix this issue but can’t be sure.
I’m looking for somebody who can address the above points. Essentially you will have to:
- Convert the entire game from AS2 to AS3.
- Find a way to fix the input lag.
- Idenfity and optimize the slowest parts of the game code in order to improve performance.
- Convert the entire game from it’s current movieclip driven state to a bitmap rendering engine. Though this isn’t essential if enough performance can be gained via the first 3 steps.
This isn’t going to be a quick job. My AS2 code is very large (approx 15k lines), not very clean and mostly uncommented. I’m fully expecting to pay a significant amount of money to get this done.
If interested please email [email protected] and give me a ballpark idea of cost.
