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Daniel Hodgin, the project manager and David Perit, the game designer of the team gave the background of the project. Both the developers talked about Processing and Processing.js that both and the development of the game and why these languages were used for the game. Both projects are Open Source and free to use and contribute to. Processing was originally developed at the MIT Media Lab by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. Processing.js is a port of the Processing language to JavaScript using the HTML canvas. Processing works on Windows and Mac, where as Processing.js works on Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and mobile browsers that support the HTML5 canvas element. Processing.js does not require a plugin to be installed. This allows it to run in environments where plugins cannot be installed like mobile, business and public. As it is open source it has the ability to change things to work the way you want. There is full control and access to the development community to contribute and there is no licensing costs. Daniel also talked about moving away from Flash as it will not work on Apple devices and the company Spongelab wants to reach the mobile iOS audience and its instantly portable. Then Daniel talked about developing the game. When Spongelab delivered a game design document outlining features of the game and how the game would progress and play, they started creating the storyboards of what screens would look like and how they would tie together.