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The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy HopeThe Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope
 
Timothy Hope, desperate to impress the beautiful but disdainful Lady Misericordia, stows away on Lord Daunt's expedition to the North Pole, and finds himself caught up in an adventure of high seas, deep crevasses, slavering wolves, reindeer sleigh rides and much, much more, with only his wits and inventiveness to keep him and his friends alive.

Jack Stalwart

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Jack Stalwart is the hero of a series of children's books written by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. Jack is a nine year old super spy who travels the world solving mysteries and thwarting criminals with an array of amazing gadgets.

The aim of the site was to allow the visitor into Jack's world, to become a spy and investigator for themselves. It was also key to include many of the informative and educational elements of the books, particularly features on world geography and culture.

Rockcandy records

Rockcandy Records had started developing a much more complex site but had run into difficulties. They asked me if I could build something quickly that they could edit and update and also include an e-commerce solution, all for a minimal budget.

Ealing Studios

I helped develop, design and build the Ealing Studios website. The site had to work with third party back end editing tools, which I helped integrate into the build.

Maze House

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.

FightBox

Well, yes, FightBox.FightBox was an interactive TV show for the BBC. Players could download a PC game from the BBC website and use it to create and train their own FightBox warriors. The most successful players won a place in the televised competition.

BBC technology allowed us to film what was essentially a televised gaming tournament as, effectively, a live virtual sporting event as the players brought their warriors into the arena to face each other and our created characters, the Sentients, to fight to the death for the title of champion.

Wiretown

A small website for a TV / technology company for them to showcase their work and keep news updated.

I designed the site based on their pre-existing identity. A straightforward static XHTML build.

TV Writers

A redesign for a TV writers' agent. The brief was to create something clean and easy to use but also to maintain an element of colour and visual interest.

It was also important to make sure that site visitors could find the writers' CVs easily and print them out in easy to read formats.

Adam and Joe

Since Bomb was handling the Channel 4 site in those days, I did the odd bit of site building on it, the favourite example being the Adam and Joe mini-site, partly because I got to design it (sort of) and also because, hell, it was Adam and Joe.

Adam and Eve

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'.