{"id":1596,"date":"2014-05-22T19:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arnoldbiffna.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:35:05","slug":"mindjolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/22\/mindjolt\/","title":{"rendered":"MindJolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 493px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1596-1\" width=\"493\" height=\"384\" poster=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogimages\/mindjolt2.jpg\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mindjolt2.mp4?_=1\" \/><source type=\"video\/webm\" src=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mindjolt2.webm?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mindjolt2.mp4\">https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mindjolt2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>In 2011, I joined the team at MindJolt Inc., now SGN. The founders of MySpace had created this game company who\u2019s main product was the <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/mindjolt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MindJolt App on Facebook<\/a>. It&#8217;s a game portal with thousands of\u00a0Flash based games, and runs in Facebook as well as a stand-alone site. At one point I believe it had over 13 Million users, and chances are if you play games on Facebook, you&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flash API<\/strong><br \/>\nTo allow the Flash games to communicate with the MindJolt \u00a0App, \u00a0they all load another \u00a0Flash file,\u00a0\u00a0which is\u00a0a bridge to the back end and\u00a0other non-Flash code. The MindJolt Flash API\u00a0was my main project for quite some time. It dealt with Ads, tracking, user information, settings, and much more. As the MindJolt stack was constantly being improved, changes to the Flash API were always in need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games on Mindjolt<\/strong><br \/>\nI also updated the source code for several of the Flash Games. As new features were introduced in the API , some of the games were modified to take advantage of them. The games you see in the video above are some of the ones I worked on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Games<\/strong><br \/>\nLater on, I worked on several other games outside of the Mindjolt app such as <a title=\"Panda Jam Ads\" href=\"2014\/05\/14\/panda-jam-ads\/\">Panda Jam<\/a>, Jewels of the Amazon, Bubble Atlantis, as well several enhancements via the Facebook and PlayerIO APIs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C#<\/strong><br \/>\nSome other projects included C# work as well. One was to convert a Flash tracking API swf to a C# DLL for Unity projects. Another was to process user information and statistics data\u00a0for PlayerIO (now the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamesnet.yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo Games Network<\/a>). The PlayerIO SDK has both an ActionScript and C# API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 2011, I joined the team at MindJolt Inc., now SGN. The founders of MySpace had created this game company who\u2019s main product was the MindJolt App on Facebook. It&#8217;s a game portal with thousands of\u00a0Flash based games, and runs in Facebook as well as a stand-alone site. At one point I believe it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/22\/mindjolt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MindJolt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[11,16,18,21,26,28,32],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c-vb-net","category-flex-flash-actionscript","tag-adap-tv","tag-as3","tag-c","tag-facebook","tag-javascript","tag-kontagent","tag-player-io"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MindJolt - Arnold Biffna Portfolio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/22\/mindjolt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MindJolt - Arnold Biffna Portfolio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; In 2011, I joined the team at MindJolt Inc., now SGN. 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