So, a really quick update post here. Upon publishing my previous post, I received some great feedback from gamer friends who thought a good way to improve the interaction would be to allow for dragging the preview marker around to update the viewport in addition to simply clicking. After giving this some thought and suppressing some immediate concerns about the overhead calculations this might take, I have implemented this change and am interested in getting some feedback. Of course, all the other features (like clicking the preview and navigating the map using the A, S, D and W keys). Feedback welcome as always…

PS – On an added note, the message in the SWF is created using embedded fonts using only Actionscript, too. I’ll post an overview on this in another post.