Web Toys and Games
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I occasionally make things in HTML and JavaScript. I used to do that more often. Heck, I used to do it for a living, but now I've moved over to working with video.
I've coded games and web toys for Comedy Central UK, Publicis, and Nokia.
I worked at Trinity Mirror's British Media Award-winning UsVsTh3m for more than a year, which isn't bad considering it was an experiment designed to last three months.
However, I'm not currently taking on new work in this area. Here's the Vault of Old Projects.
The Vault
Old projects and posts, in no particular order. Be warned: they may be outdated, broken or embarrassing by now.
- Six Old Games for UsVsTh3m
- Infinite Adam Curtis –“Four years earlier, in the future, in the corridors of power, a seemingly inconsequential moment…”
- The British Hammer Time Speaking Clock – “At the stop, Hammer Time will be…”
- Emojli – the first emoji-only network.
- Shakespeare.txt.jpg – an experiment with JPEG compressing text.
- The Magical Mystical Ley Line Locator – do you live on an "energy highway"?
- The Quiet Carriage Proficiency Test.
- The Vengabus Timetable.
- The Helvetica Logo Agency.
- Cwora – like Quora, only much more sarcastic.
- A quick note on why I don't have a Discord server
- Europlop! – Tim and I argue about music that isn't worth arguing about.
- Cash4Access – get up close and personal with your favourite politicians!
- Journalism Warning Labels – making newspaper reading that much safer.
- Comedy Donor Card – I want to help others laugh in the event of my death.
- Trapped in Sticker Factory, Send Help – these stickers went all over the world.
- Game Shows With Bees – buzz in if you know the answer.
- Extortr – It's what Flickr would be if Flickr were evil. Presented at the Paraflows exhibition, Vienna.
- Preparing for Emergencies – From mid-2004: Remember the British Government's terror advice leaflet? This isn't quite it. The British government were "considering legal action" over this at one point, but decided not to after the Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC, and a whole lot of other news media got interested...
- The End of History: On a Budget – an answer to the £500 dead squirrel beer.
- Actual Facebook Graph Searches.
- Klouchebag – the standard for asshattery.
- Advent Locker – one prize a day in an Amazon Locker!
- CharityShock – donate money, give someone an electric shock.
- Students' Union Induction Talks – in which I dress like a pirate and make the greatest entrance of my life.
- Sexual Congress – which US politician is most attractive? Vote. Find out.
- This Is My Spam – like This Is My Jam, but less annoying.
- The Analogizer – Journalists! Need useless, confusing analogies? Here you go.
- Smug Kookaburras – the most self-satisfied of all birds.
- What's Osama Bin Watchin'? – possibly the most tasteless thing I've ever made.
- Tweleted – once upon a time, it recovered deleted tweets. No longer.
- Your lawmakers are probably not senile. Good news.
- The 2010 "Editing Wikipedia From Inside Parliament" Awards.
- Buntify – instant Royal Wedding patriotism for any web site.