Well I have revised my idea somewhat. Unity is out for the time being as I don’t have the time to learn java or the complexities of Unity. XML is in as the information delivery method because it’s the most convenient method at the moment. I could have used remoting but I am being lazy. So here’s the final implementation. Flash will poll the server once and hour to check if the xml document has changed if it has then it will reload the image and trigger and FSCommand to change the class of the body tag. On the server side php will run in a cron job every hour to generate the xml file with new information. In the future I will add sound support and either Unity or Remoting as the data delivery method.

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