the services we offer - flash games & web development

We offer beautiful games, for any type of audience having any kind of theme and gameplay. We know how to make games and we can show you if you ask us that.

The team, us, is one aiming towards the online area and further more: aiming at online games with expertise in flash games for kids and not only.

You may need a flash games when you have a website and you want to maket it known to as much users as possible, when you want to promote a producct in an interactive way, when you want to make a present or just because you need it.

We earned our expertise along the way and we've been through many internal evolution stages all the time. These stages helped us very much in knowing where we are and also made us realise that we want to be a 2D flash games studio (for now), recognized, well known and in the same time looked for.

Here you will find:

1. people that love games
2. a logical structuing of our work flow:
   • we talk with you about what you want
   • we do a brainstorming and we share our ideas
   • we let you know about or thoughts
   • we start with the sketches and drafts that we will send for you to see
   • we go to inking the sketches and the to coloring
   • we build the game engine from scratch so we can basically think of any game play
   • we put in the graphics
   • we check and test the game ourselves and with you as well
3. cool graphics and talented people
4. good communication all around the project
5. opening to new and bold ideas
6. passionate people (meaning you have to let us do our work)
7. lots of creativity and a friendly athmosphere

Flash games are the little brothers and sisters of casual games - simpler, faster, more viral and easy to distribute. They remain one of the most popular forms of online fun and with a market of over 1.1 billion users in 209 (comscore stats) we can talk about an online phenomena that has had an amazing growth these past years.

Our expertise in game development starts in 2008 when we entered on the market with several in-house English projects, aimed towards kids and girl's games. Meanwhile we realised that it's not just a one time meal in this niche but also that it is one of the main branches we want to focus our company on - creating flash games fitted like a glove and it asked for the exact qualities that we were working on for a name for ourselves in web-dev: creativity, a good eye for everything beautiful and project diversity.

This way in 2010 we got to have more than 300 flash games in our portfolio, craeted for in house projects or for our partners and clients, most of which decided afterwards to build a long term relationship with us.

We can confidently say that flash no longer has secrets for us and that we can create anything, from simple "dress-up" games, games that have a very young target group to complexe advergames for viral campaigns. If you need a game or a flash app, animated banners for your online campaign, give us a call and we'll let you know what we can do and for how much.

Our flash games are done using Action Script 3 structured on classes, packages and optimized coding. The Adobe Flash Player has its limitations, but we know about them and this lets us manage complexe situations.
We can use vector or brush graphics that our flash programming team brings to life using a simple: start();

We work with:

• ActionScript 2 and 3
• Flex
• Flash player
• Vector graphics and brush art
• XML
• PHP and MySQL (these are for apps that are written in flash)

Look, we know you've got a lot of choices out there. There's plenty of web development, SEO or web marketing companies and some will be cheaper, some might do a better job than us for a particular project, others will fail miserably where we'd shine. The web is a blackjack game more than a roulette because in blackjack you can actually give yourself some advantage by playing it smart.

We're here to help you play smart and we're doing it without counting the cards. We could bore you to death with the same old clutter you'll find on every web-dev company's website: how your online presence is the most important part of your business, how you REALLY need to pay extra for SEO services, how we're the ones that will sell your website to your customer so well that by the end of the fiscal year your only worry will be between spending your income on a Loire Valley chateau or a luxury Yacht.

Yada yada, that's bullshit. Each business has its distinct environment and necessities and each website needs to be shaped to reflect its business. There's no golden rule of web design, no quick fix to a branding problem.

Can we help you? First of all, we'd love to take a look at your project and answer this question together. We have the experience to tackle any problems you might encounter, but promising fixes before we see the actual problems is the equivalent of seeing a mad witch instead of going to the doctor to check up on that cough you've been having.

So give us a short description of what you need and we'll get back to you ASAP!

You want to work with us because:

1. you need a good idea for your website
2. you need professional and documented SEO
3. we offer everything
   • hosting
   • domain registration
   • we implement your visual identity
   • we draw the layout of your website and then we ask you if you like it
   • we transform the drawing of your website into an online jewel, we code it, optimize it and then we'll put it online on the spot
4. you want quality and originality at the same time
5. we know all there is to know about websites and if by some accident we don't, we'll find out faster than you can think about it
6. you are not happy about your website
7. offer free hosting to our clients
8. we like challenges and you have one just for us
9. you like to be updated about our progress during the project
10. we are bold enough to try out new ideas
11. we are pretty well organized
12. we know what to recommend
13. we are good
14. you like our website

Why work with us? Well that's easy :)

Here are a couple of things to help you get a better idea of what IDEA is:

• we're a fun bunch, but we're also hard working
• we're dead serious about deadlines
• we like analyzing stuff, sending out reports and generally knowing that each project is being conducted in an orderly fashion
• we put our hearts and minds behind a project
• we've got 4 years of experience in web design and PHP/MySQL web development
• we're young and still have a lot of energy to place behind our projects - we're far from burnt out
• we've got an absolutely spotless record. 90% of our customers turn into repeat business for us. I think that says something about the quality of our work

SEO is a strange kind of beast in the online savannah. It's sort of like the Internet's Big Foot: everyone's heard about it, everyone knows what it looks like but too few actually have bragging rights to having seen it in action. We at IDEA Studios are firmly part of the latter category and we've got the scars to prove it.

What is SEO?

SEO has gained a sort of shabby notoriety and it still has a mysterious halo around it in the eyes of the average web surfer. It's looked upon as a set of Jedi powers, some of them coming from The Force, others from the Dark Side. In SEO we generally call them Whitehat and Blackhat techniques though:

1. Blackhat - spam, automated link building methods that bring temporary advantages and put a website's stability in the search engines at enormous risks and other similarly shady methods all stand under the banner of blackhat SEO. Why is blackhat so bad if it sometimes shows faster results? Well because they're temporary results earned through unfair or annoying means - your brand is well at risk using them and we'd advise you not to try them if you want to grow a healthy online presence.
2. Whitehat – these techniques are clean and in alignment with the search engines' terms and conditions so there's really no risk in using them. A heathly whitehat SEO strategy works towards promoting your long-term online presence, getting your site's pages up in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) and solidifying your brand. Whitehat SEO is a symbiotic relationship between the technical part of your website, its editorial content and marketing component.

From the get-go, we'd like to say that we're only interested in whitehat SEO, so let's break down the above-mentioned elements that make it work.

The technical part is usually called on-site SEO and it focuses on getting a couple of things right: cleaning up the code and making it search-engine friendly, targetting keywords in important HTML elements and creating a navigation system that web crawlers can easily index.

The editorial part of whitehat SEO refers to coming up with quality content that's also targetted towards groups of humans that have the means to link to your website. The actual target-group differs from website to website, the key here is identifying who your potential linkers are and writing up or offering them some sort of quality content that will draw that precious link to your website.

The marketing component is intrinsically important within all aspects of promoting a website for the purpose of getting your linkable content some exposure. A viral marketing campaign that can be an awesome link generator, promoting a new and useful widget you developed or launching some bombastic new feature of your site in a press release are all SEO-marketing related issues.

We've grown our webbing skills over the years and we'll be the first to admit we love a few technologies more than others. And while we're always ready to learn new programming languages and frameworks, our tools of the trade remain:

Our tools are:

• PHP
• MySQL
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• jQuery
• JSON
• Ajax
• XML
• Flash
• RSS