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Blue Peter 4 Nations Challenge

Client: BBC
Agency: Monterosa

This fun, quiz-style game was designed for fans of the long-running children’s TV show in the UK. The game presented questions in the form of short videos and snippets of audio, players could then pick from the multiple-choice answers that followed.

Roles within a team:

  • Interface design
  • Flash development
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Quizoo

Client: BBC
Agency: Monterosa

Designed for the BBC Teens team as part of their recently relaunched site “Slink”. This compelling multi-player online game lets players test their general knowledge against people all over the world or compete in private rooms just for friends. Check out the crazy cool avatars created by Marc Diamond.

Roles within a team:

  • Interface design (excluding avatars)
  • Flash developer (front end only)
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TrafficWatch widget

Client: Rideshare
Agency: SymbioAgency

Built with the new Yahoo! Widget Engine, this small desktop application (and accompanying site) was designed to help New Zealand commutes easily identify traffic congestion and make informed choices about their drive times. Over 2,500 people downloaded this widget in it’s first week online.

Roles:

  • Design & development
  • HTML & CSS production
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NZEdge

Client: NZEdge
Agency: SymbioAgency

The redesign of the NZEdge.com site centred around creating a much more engaging and iconic homepage that embodied the NZEdge spirit. The new homepage features a randomly ordered photo slideshow, an MP3 player (featuring choice NZ tunes of course) and a dynamic international timezone map – all are updatable via a simple XML backend.

Roles:

  • Concept & design
  • Flash development, HTML & CSS production
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The Apprentice Plot Predictor game

Client: BBC
Agency: Monterosa

Fans of the UK series are encouraged to making predictions about what will happen in next week’s show, those with the highest score at the end of the series get tickets to the “You’re hired” grand finale.

Roles:

  • Interface design & Flash development
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Investment NZ interactive maps


Client: Investment New Zealand
Agency: Shift

These interactive Flash based maps were designed to quickly give access to a lot of information – and all in one place.

One map displays INZ office locations on a world map and lets viewers see the contact details for each office as well as current time of day there – with adjustments for daylight savings.

The other gives an overview of New Zealand’s core infrastructure by visually overlaying different sets of information on a map of New Zealand. The user can then literally zoom into to see more information including detailed information on New Zealand’s main cities.

All maps created are customisable and editable via an XML backend.

Roles within a team:

  • Design & Flash development
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Guess & Win! game

Client: Maris Hotels

This fun competition encourages visitors to really get to know the range of hotels and facilities this Greek luxury hotel chain has to offer. By guessing the right name for each hotel and location, players get a chance to win a weeks holiday in Crete. Features a comprehensive backend tracking system.

Roles:

  • Design & Flash development
  • PHP & MySQL development
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Breakmakers eFlyer

Client: Breakmakers

This mini site for up and coming UK band Breakmakers was created to promote their rock’n new single. The eFlyer features the music video of the single, tracks previews and more. It’s also customisable via an XML driven backend.

Roles:

  • Design & Flash development

Launch Project

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Hard Spell game

Client: BBC
Agency: Monterosa

This game was created for the BBC to promote the ‘Hard Spell’ television series with the aim of finding Britain’s best young speller. Although targeted at 11-14 year olds, it allowed people of all ages to test their word skills and compete in a weekly high score table.

Roles within a team:

  • Sole designer + Flash developer
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The Match – Celebrity Football game

Client: Sky One
Agency: Victoria Real

‘Instant satisfaction’ could also be the name of this game created to support the hype over the new, very British, reality TV show ‘The Match’. Although simple in concept, the game features some nice ball physics, collision detection, parallel scrolling and sound effects to add to the game’s comic nature and appeal.

Roles within a team:

  • Sole Flash developer + animator
  • Sound sourcing + production
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