MochiBot Blog

What other people think really shouldn’t matter, but sometimes it actually does. Especially when it comes to your work. That’s why we’ve created a new feature that allows you to add comments and ratings to any of your Flash movies. We’re all about getting better data so this is a way to get it straight from your audience.

Here’s an example of a stand alone rating bar. You could put this anywhere in your Flash movie to have your visitors rate your game, animation, or video. Or you could just create a rating bar to rate things like your blog entries, your website, a picture, or maybe even your MySpace profile. Be creative! (Download this widget)

And here’s an example of a simple comment form.

Both of these examples could have been combined into one SWF or used seperately like we’ve done here. Either way we’ve set it up so that all of the ratings and comments are for one MochiBot. You can view the results here.

There are two ways you can get started using this new feature. One is to just download one of the examples we’ve created and then copy and paste the example movie clip to your FLA. The second option is to create your own comments and rating interface and just tie it in with our API.

We’ve opened up a new forum just for this feature. Once you create a rating and comment interface then feel free to post your example in our forum or submit one for everyone else to use.

Have fun with this and please let us know what you think so that we can improve on this new feature. Thanks!

We’ll be making some minor tweaks to the system this week so the processing of all stats will be a bit delayed. Stats will take longer than usual to process while we’re working on the system.

Sorry for the inconvenience.