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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 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.

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.

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

Wannabes

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.

I was heavily involved in the development of the concept and the eventual show. I helped structure the interactive segments of the drama and how they fitted in with the main plotlines.

Planet Protectors

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.

To this end the majority of the content is held in XML which is then pulled into Flash templates. This means that the site can easily be updated and expanded, turning it into an evolving, living online resource.

twominutes.com

two-minutes.com was an interactive murder mystery set in Cornwall during the eclipse of 1999.It told the story of a group of documentary makers who went to make a film about the effect of the eclipse on Cornwall and the tourist industry. All close friends (and some closer enemies) what the team didn't know was that one of their number was a murderer and that during the two minutes of darkness during the total eclipse, all hell would break loose.

The Big Giraffe and Genius Goldfish Show

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.

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.