Tap into this awesome new site from B-Reel

Now this will take a bit of brainpower - but if you're up for a challenge, love a mystery and enjoy solving puzzles then Tap Joint is exactly the site for you. Created by B-Reel as a teaser to Tom Hanks' post-apocalyptic web series Electric City, the site features a mysterious underground room called Tap Joint.

We had quite a few discussions about Flash vs HTML5 for this project

"We actually had quite a few discussions about Flash vs HTML5 for this project," explains Eva Mautino, executive producer at B-Reel. "Even though timings were a very important reason for using Flash - making sure the experience was flawless for all users - the big reason was actually security, as we knew the target users would have tried to have the experience and find all possible information to solve the mystery.

"Initially we were not planning to use any backend/server-side scripts (which we later added as an extra security). It's better to hide information in a complied SWF instead of a frontend JavaScript code that is easily accessible to obtain by viewing the source."

Tap Joint puts visitors into a world where they use the tap kit and clues to navigate around

Tap Joint puts visitors into a world where they use the tap kit and clues to navigate around

However, Mautino didn't want to lie down and make the information easy pickings for enterprising clue hunters. "Of course we knew that people could decompile the SWF and find some of the code as well, but this takes more effort from the users," she proclaims proudly.

This showcase was originally published in .net magazine issue 233.

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