entertainment

Oscar and the Magi

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"Oscar and the Magi" is a children's book that I've written largely as a present for someone, but which I'm also making available online for everyone else.

The Mazehouse

The Mazehouse
The Mazehouse project has its origins in an interactive TV show we made for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001. It was initially intended to be an interactive drama, but the Sci-Fi channel wanted it to be mounted as more of a hoax. Ever since I've wanted to go back and tell the story we originally intended to - the results can be seen at: mazehouse.ruritania.co.uk.

two-minutes.com

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two-minutes.com was an interactive murder mystery we staged during the total eclipse of 1999. It was a live online event and, as such, disappeared soon after it had run its course.

Newcross Emergency Surgery Game

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A flash game providing all the thrills of high-stakes surgery without the blood-soiled clothes and law-suits.

Essentially a mash-up of the old boardgame Operation and one of those electrical dexerity tests, the game challenges the player to 'cut round' a series of complicated organs, racing against the clock to earn a place on the high score table. At the end of the game players are rated and awarded a dynamically generated certificate to print out and keep.

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.

Wannabes

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This was a pilot for an interactive soap for the BBC. The audience would have a mocked up 'desktop' and would receive video messages from the characters, each containing a segment of an episode's plot. Occassional 'instant messages' would allow the audience to interact with the characters, altering plot outcomes by making decisions.

Planet Protectors

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Planet Protectors are a new range of environmentally aware action figures from the Early Learning Centre.

I helped develop the site and and its content. I built it in Flash to Will Richards' colourful and dramatic designs.

The aim was to give the children an online destination that complemented and expanded on the world of the characters.

The Big Giraffe and Genius Goldfish Show

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It's the show that's big, not the giraffe.

This was a short series of tiny animated interstitials for Nickelodeon in the UK. Originally it was going to be a chat show hosted by a Giraffe in a Spacestation (although no one can remember why) but then he had as guests a pair of Goldfish with astronomical IQs and minimal attention spans and they took over.

FightBox

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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.

Remainders

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For every programme that makes it to air, there are many that die on the way, whether strangled at birth, brutally murdered along the way or eventually euthanised to put the audience out of their misery. It is these programmes that are the Remainders of radio broadcasting.