I designed and built this website on the WordPress platform for Dr. Nick Bontis’ new book.

I designed this as a real-time social media infographic that would run during the SHIFT Hamilton festival this September. If funding comes through, I’ll be building it as well.

The piece will include stats on Twitter and Foursquare usage during the event, and would update fairly frequently. Once the event was over, the entire set of data would be explorable in the same UI, using the hammer at the bottom as a time slider.

I made this flash ad for the 2011 Ford Focus in my spare time for my portfolio.

This was an ad rotator plugin I built for the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition‘s WordPress website. Programmed in PHP and Javascript (jQuery), the user assigns each ad a priority, which influences the chance the ad has to appear. On each page load, ads are given a chance at one of five “slots” in a jQuery Cycle group based on their priorities and how many times the ad has been shown already.

Flash game designed & built for Bite.ca based on designs by Seven Hundred. Music by Doctor Octoroc.

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Site built on WordPress platform from given design.

http://aurorashoppingcentre.com/

WordPress theme designed and built with a retro gaming theme in mind. CSS, HTML, PHP

See it in action at http://nintendolegend.com

This was the second round of animated advertisements I did for Titles Bookstore using Flash.

Check past the break for 3 more!

These people would be lying to you.

Lara Croft’s latest adventure is about sitting on a couch with a friend and yelling, laughing and sharing sighs of relief as you just barely escape a gargantuan rolling spiked ball or whatever ridiculous horrors the game throws at you.

While it abandons the “Tomb Raider” moniker, Guardian of Light is more observant of the Core values of the series than the recent AAA releases. Early Tomb Raider games were built on three major principles: difficult puzzles, impractical but deadly traps, and a focus on exploration in locations that were fantastical if not logical. Guardian of Light wholeheartedly embraces these values and throws story to the wind.

Because Guardian of Light’s story is cheesy and implausible at best, it’s given the freedom to set up over-the-top situations that would feel out of place otherwise. I’ll avoid spoiling any of the game’s moments, but once you’ve played through Guardian of Light, you’ll be referencing some of the sequences in conversation with your co-op buddy for weeks to come.

Although Guardian of Light is forgiving, it isn’t easy. Lara and Totec will both die many times, but getting your friend back in the game is as simple as a button tap. If one happens to fall out of reach into a spike pit or off a cliff, they’ll be automatically respawned within a few seconds. An actual “death” in the game is when both players wipe at the same time. Even then, the game checkpoints very often, and you’ll never find yourself frustrated.

Co-Op puzzle solving is a great experience; each one is so ingenious in its design that each solution will come to you through a logical realisation (like in Portal) before you resort to random attacks at the puzzle in an attempt to stumble upon the seemingly illogical solution. The dialogue that will happen between your co-op partner and yourself isn’t restricted to high energy situations, either. Puzzle solving will have you suggesting tactics, directing or being directed, and copious amounts of high fives after the fact.

Guardian of Light gave us five and a half hours on our first playthrough and it seemed to end just as it started to rehash content, such as boss and level reskins. If you’re the obsessive/compulsive type, there are collectibles and different challenges in each level that result in new weapons or costumes, as well as score and time goals to beat.

While Guardian of Light’s faults are few and far in between, there are some little issues that crop up throughout the game. The biggest issue I had was that the game made checkpoints too often. The euphoria that rushed in after surviving a particularly deadly gauntlet was muted by the checkpoints made at each quarter of the sequence. I think there could be a bit more risk involved in Guardian of Light that would both heighten the stress during the climactic scenes and allow for a greater sense of accomplishment once complete.

Lara’s latest adventure is a steal for $15; you owe it to yourself (and your co-op partner) to play this one through as soon as possible.

This was a project done in AS3/Flash and exported as AIR for Reeves Financial. They wanted a digital sign solution that required little work to update, and provided valuable information on the go for their customers and representatives. This sign pulls in Yahoo Weather data, Yahoo Finance data and two RSS news feeds and displays the information. The News section also features a dynamically generating QR code that will link the scanning user to the article on their mobile device. The QR code is based on a bit.ly shortened version of the source URL, as shorter links create cleaner QR codes. Representatives are able to update the Assets Managed section with a simple XML file.