Michel Wacker On Game Design and Development with Flash

About

This is the personal blog of Michel Wacker, thanks for visiting. Here is my short bio so you get an impression of who I am and what I do:

With a Bachelor's degree in computer science and journalism in my hands, I started working as a freelance illustrator and game designer for two years until I switched back to programming and joined the Swiss web company Liip AG as Lead Flash Platform Developer.
In the following three years I worked for renowned clients such as Postfinance and the Swiss National Bank creating mainly educational applications such as complex multiplayer economy games for the award winning iconomix platform (currently only viewable with a Swiss IP-address).
Being the Swiss Flash User Group's co-manager in that time, I regularily contributed presentations to the monthly meetings and helped organise the "Flash At The Lake 2009" event in Zurich.

In May 2010, I returned to Germany where I picked up my freelancership as Flash Platform developer again, concentrating on educational games and applications for web and mobile about which I will be speaking at various conferences this year. I recently made my debut as writer with a tutorial for the German tech magazine WEAVE and plan to pick up writing again a little more often in the future.

But the greatest challenge I've decided to face this year is making my first steps as an independant game developer and publish my first game «Save the Maidens» in the next months to come - an adventurous and exciting endeavour.