Tag: Lingo

I have coded a multitude of different genres of games. Some have been for clients, and include a PacMan style game, a shoot-em up, a matching pairs game, and a duelling cannons game for BBC Blackadder. I also made a Space Invaders clone for Frutina for their old website. Others were created for the company I was working for, or just for fun.

I have also made many games designed for more educational purposes – such as Hangman, Jigsaws, or dynamically built Crosswords or Word Searches. Some of these have had multiple re-use over e-learning programmes, or the Horrible Sciences CDs that were packaged with Kelloggs breakfast cereals.

Marketing and Press Packs comprise of information, and assets that are sent out to promote a product or service. These were distributed to work across PC and Mac via CD-Rom as a little application. I have delivered comprehensive product catalogues on both web and CD-Rom, as well as Point of Sale touch-screen kiosks.

Sometimes when you’re developing a large-scale project, it’s beneficial to make some kind of development tool applications to aid the process, and work as a prototype.

Such as a dynamic crossword generator, which randomly generated a puzzle based on the number of clues, and the size of the square specified. It generated a random seed number, so you could always build the same crossword again for the finalised product.

Or a karaoke application, which allowed us to generate our own timings for the lyrics to be displayed on-screen in S-Club 7: On the Road. Initial development time can save a massive chunk of development (or asset generation) time further along the development process. This was then utilised again and enhanced to allow us to generate subtitles for e-learning language training videos within further applications.