Bomb had designed a new site for Henson’s Creature Workshop which I implemented in Flash in conjunction with a suite of back-end editing tools that I wrote in Perl.The tools meant that Hensons would be able to update the site easily while still keeping the swish flash front end.

Sadly although the site was fully completed and functional, it never went live due to issues at the Creature Workshop.

The Maze House was an interactive ghost story we produced for the Sci Fi Channel.The show went out in short episodes on the Sci Fi channel in the days leading up to Halloween, apparently showing the progress of a small team investigating a haunted house in Northumberland. As the week went by events in the house got stranger and stranger until on Halloween something terrible happened to the team.

The audience were able help with the investigation, by watching web-cams, for example, or using a custom built piece of software that apparently measured levels of electro-magnetic fields round the house. Both the web-cams and the EMF monitors were rigged to produce anomalous results in conjunction with events in the show.

There was also a network of ‘hidden’ background websites that the audience could discover through search engines and links, which gave clues to the background of the hauntings and gave the audience a chance to try and warn the characters of the fate that awaited them.

I came up with the original story line and developed the concept and the show along with Finbar Hawkins and Tim Usborne. I also wrote the scripts, built the website, helped cook for the production crew and even played all 6 characters in a live web chat.

Maze House featured fantastic work from all concerned, especially the actors (including John Millington, of course) and proved extremely popular with the Sci Fi Channel audience.

A web ad for Volkswagen, included here because of the old-fashioned flash scripting, which was pretty nifty at the time. You turned the air-con dial and the car changed colour. Imagine.

Adam and Eve was a series of short comedy animations done for Ha Ha Bonk, a comedy portal, or ‘chortal’, apparently.

I added interactivity to the animations (which were scripted by someone else) so that the audience could mouse over various parts of the screen and get extra ‘jokes’.