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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 Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

The 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.

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.

Jo Malone Gift Reminder

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The Jo Malone Reminder is a desktop application that allows the user to store relevant dates - birthdays, anniversarys, special events - and then reminds them of the date up to two weeks in advance, along with recommendations of appropriate Jo Malone products to purchase as presents.

Tilt

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The Remainders gang (myself, Finbar Hawkins & Jon Millington) have had a few sketches featured on Tilt, a BBC Radio 7 sketch show - so, finally got that credit on a BBC radio comedy show. My work here is done. I think the most recent show is available on listen again, still, but this is the show's page, which might prove slightly longer lived than any Listen Again link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/comedy/progpages/tilt.shtml

Cbeebies Poster Maker

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A poster making application for Cbeebies, designed by Alex at Swordfish, but coded by me. Kids can select a background and images of animals to place on it - they can scale and move the animals how they like and also add their own titles. They can also submit their picture to a gallery for other children to see, email a link to their friends to come and see their picture in the gallery and also print it off, either in colour or in black and white. It's built in Flash, inevitably, with a mySQL and php back-end, passing information back and forth in xml.

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.

Jack Stalwart: Games

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We have made some updates to Jack Stalwart, including a new games section, with two original games for it (about which more later).

The games section has been built to allow more games to be added easily - the games are separate movies that load into the main site structure.