Say What?!
Say What?! did you say? Starting in February 2011 and finishing in August 2011, I joined the 8linQ team to make the iPhone/iPad game, ‘Say What?!’. It’s an fantastic music-based game with an original concept – matching the lyrics of well known songs to physical items on a conveyor belt representing those words while the...
The Fab Four arrive
The Beatles are on iTunes! During October and early November 2010, whilst working for Metropolis Studios I was part of the team that helped to bring the Beatles to iTunes. For their release on iTunes, each of the sixteen digitally remastered albums required the creation of an iTunes LP digital album booklet. Additionally we built...
Take That Are Back
Take That have reformed and have released a new album “Progress”. I was asked by Metropolis Studios to build an Enhanced CD-ROM section for the release of Take That’s single, “The Flood”. I built a cross-platform Mac/PC program that plays the promotional video in both small and full screen, with standard video controls. Where can...
Going back to Number 1
Going Back (18 Good Reasons) is Phil Collins’s eighth studio album. It was released on 13 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and features covers of 60s Motown & Soul tracks. I was asked to create a DVD-ROM section for the DVD with a piece of software that would copy a set of music tracks to the user’s computer. I...
A website facelift
Jeremy Browne is the Minister for Parliament for the Taunton Deane constituency in Somerset. He was first elected to Parliament in 2005, and contacted me about building him a website to help him communicate better with his constituents. In trying to reflect the gentle countryside nature of Somerset, I created a website with an autumnal...
Lets go round the world!
Prologue In November 2007, after working from 10am to 12am every week day for nearly 6 months, I was, quite frankly, knackered. In fact, possibly a little burnt out and I needed a holiday. I’d been building a development framework and fast authoring pipeline for the Hi-def optical format HD-DVD. Using the framework I’d finally...
Pixel Uruk-Hai
When I was working at Abbey Road Studios, I was incredibly lucky enough to do a little bit of work on Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. To celebrate I decided to make a picture in my favourite art style: isometric pixel art. My own pixel art style of is a bit different to...
