July 2011

Sweatshop

Sweatshop

An educational strategy game for Channel 4 highlighting the plight of workers in developing countries and questioning the ethics of consumerist high street fashion. At least that’s what all the blurb says… my goal was just to make a really fun little management game where you could set fire to everything! (see above)

Produced by Littleloud with art by Gary J. Lucken and music by Michael Reaney. I designed the game mechanics, programmed it and had lots of fun (and a few late nights) building the levels.

Play Sweatshop.

January 2011

Misfits

Misfits

I worked with Kerb to make a few minigames for the BAFTA-nominated Misfits campaign for E4.

November 2010

CBBC prototyping

I’ve been working closely with the CBBC R&D department to design and prototype a series of game engine templates which can be skinned, modified and extended. The project goal is to allow development teams within CBBC to be able to theme a game template for a particular brand without the need for much-squabbled-over technical resources or outsourcing to external agencies. Thus putting myself out of a job.

So far I’ve worked on a very flexible board-game engine, complete with AI, a ‘cannon’ game template (eg. Tracy Beaker Party), a ‘break-out’ type game, and more to follow!

I love this kind of work as it allows me to focus on gameplay and production workflow rather than the ‘final 20%’ aspect which for me is the most laborious part of Flash production.

April 2009

Trapped!

Trapped!

A multiplayer game for CBBC, based on the TV quiz show of the same name. Players must work together to complete a series of tasks… apart from the saboteur, who must scupper their plans!

This was a pretty ambitious project. I worked closely with the BBC Prototyping team to get a multiplayer server up and running on BBC infrastructure – no mean feat. I designed the games, built the Flash client and prototyped the server-side too. Note to self: Multiplayer games are HARD to make.

Play Trapped!

September 2008

Kerwhizz

I built a racing quiz game for Kerwhizz, a TV gameshow for kids. Play it here.

Produced by Littleloud for CBeebies.

June 2008

Pumkin Online English

I built a Flash e-learning framework for my brother’s digital ESL company Pumkin in Taiwan. It makes it easy for them to build new games and activities to integrate into the curriculum.

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April 2008

Bow Street Runner

Bow Street Runner

Bow Street Runner is an interactive drama produced by Littleloud for Channel 4 set deep in the seedy gin-soaked underground of Georgian London. I designed and built the game engine and a content management system driven by Google Docs.

It won loads of awards, including a BAFTA!

Watch a trailer here or play it here.

June 2006

Oban Star Racers

High-speed tunnel racing game for the anime series of the same name. It’s not around any more but watch the trailer above to see what it was like!

With Littleloud for Jetix.