Soooooooooooooon

In case some of you don't read our fantabulous InstantAction blog, here are a couple of entries about the upcoming project:

Leaderboards are something we're pretty pleased with. You'll be able to check out your high scores in relation to all of Facebook, and in relation to your friends' scores (the more interesting one). I was skeptical about leaderboards at first, but I admit that seeing Daniel's, mine and then the rest of the team's scores on it as we built it out was pretty darn spiffy.

That picture is a bit dated, by the way. :) It looks more, erm, fully operational now.

And here's what started the posts, noted for posterity.

I should probably mention something about what I do. I'm on the Instant Action web team, making various widgets, thingamabobs, UIs and interfaces that let you, our fantabulous gaming audience, get into the games faster and easier, and do more interesting things while you're not playing the game. I worked on IA a goodly chunk, then on the team that brought you PlayLegions.com, and now I'm working on the no longer suparsekrit Facebook app.

Before we started working with FB, I thought our IA codebase was pretty gnarly. Compared to FB ... well, it's still pretty gnarly. But in a completely different way :) Fortunately, we learned a lot from it and the brand spanking new platform (also in-house built) that we're developing on now will let us do things in a much more modular way, which should mean shorter development times all around.