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近來都開始有人利用AIR 來寫game 了，而且還支援 multiplay.

chowky 不是介紹game…哈～

他們利用了flex/AIR + ColdFusion + LiveCycle DS

Greg Wilson, one of Chess Jam developer 對於利用AIR 作deployment 有以下的原因

* Embedded images and sounds dramatically speed-up load times compared to an equivalent web-browser-based app
* User presence detection
* Network detection for handling disconnects and reconnects
* Custom chrome (the team wanted 100% control over UI, sizing, position, etc.)
* Numerous uses of mx:HTML including the news banner, upcoming stats view, etc.
* Auto-update framework to easily push out updates to the application.
* Support for Mac, Windows and Linux

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