creative-cognition

Case studies

Coach tool

Contracted to build a coach tool desktop application using Flash Platform. Designed to allow football coaching staff to create animations demonstrating tactics and set-plays and save to distributable files. Note: Project management, graphical design / production and original requirements specification work was undertaken by our creative agency client. Distributed privately, this application is not likely to be generally released.

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Note: Aspects of the user interface remain confidential and are therefore blocked out in this presentation.

Functional overview

All players can be named
Team strip colours can be changed, saved with the exercise or saved to default
Players are dragged to the pitch then can be animated along striaght or curved paths
Each frame represents an end-point for a single line or curve
The face-angle of players can be adjusted on each path segment to illustrate a side-step action
'Pause-frames' facilitate the addition of break-out notes allowing the coach to annotate the frame with text and graphics.
A number of different pitch types can be selected
Graphical snapshots (PNG) can be saved off
Multiple modes of playback are available based on the current selected frame and whether the pause frames should be observed or not
Includes an 'unsaved changes' workflow

Technologies / Techniques employed

Flex MXML and ActionScript 3
AIR
PureMVC
E4X
DragDrop
Custom ActionScript components
Custom tween animation code
Custom Selection Manager