This game has been a while in the making but I was very happy to see it finally go live on Tuesday! I developed Algebra Meltdown for MangaHigh.com using some of the latest Flash 10 features. Here’s a video of it in action:
Enjoy!
Channel 4 Television commissioned me to develop the new Flash Carousel featured on the recently launched YouTube 4 on Demand YouTube super page. This new channel promotes the range of existing 4oD channels already hugely popular on YouTube.
My involvement in the project required a quick turnaround, some Flash AS3 programming, animation and some consultancy – liasing with Google (owners of YouTube) and Channel 4 to make the launch of the new page as smooth as possible 
Prodigi, a key part of the new MangaHigh.com website, enables teachers to author GCSE Maths questions for every lesson of the National Curriculum. Then activities are dynamically generated for students in playback mode. Take a look at the promo video:
A lot of my work during 2009 has been the development of this Flex RIA Content Authoring System. Prodigi serves 3 purposes:
- It dynamically generates interactive online Maths lessons for every topic and subtopic of the UK Maths GCSE National Curriculum. The student experience tracks student attainment and progress levels and adjusts it’s questions accordingly. It aims to help, challenge and improve student’s knowledge of GCSE Maths.
- Prodigi sources it’s Maths questions from a database of hundreds of thousands of questions that have been submitted by Maths teachers. I had to develop an Author Mode for Prodigi to enable Teachers to create these questions. Author mode includes features such as multiple question templates and layouts, a complex equation editor, save and submission functions.
- The third mode of Prodigi is Auditor Mode enabling the top Math’s Teachers/Professors at MangaHigh to quickly assess queued Maths questions, accept, reject, comment on them etc.
Get Lippy! is a fun entertainment Application that I built for the iPhone earlier this year (2009).
This silly iPhone App automatically records when users talk into the microphone. Then it trims the sound input and plays back the speech either like a Chipmonk or Barry White: the App enables you to control the pitch adjustment.
You can choose pictures from your iPhone library or take your own on the fly and then select from 4 comic talking mouths that you can resize/reposition to overlay your photos. When the app plays back a recording it animates the lips fast or slow depending on the pitch as it detects audio levels.
New functionality in version 1.1 includes the ability for users to submit their animated recordings to the Get Lippy Gallery and send them to their mates.
Download Get Lippy! from the App Store
Update (4th October 09): Recently I was chosen as one of the 3 minute wonders to speak at Flash on the Beach ‘09 conference. My presentation was about the iPhone Development Workflow from a Flash Developer’s perspective. You can see the video and a few more details here.
CluedUp is a popular subscription-based site for the Telegraph Newspaper. A skinned Flex 3 application that implements AMF remote data services, advanced skinning and modules.
This was a project I worked during my role as Lead Flex Developer for London agency World Archipelago.
We launched the Crosswords and Sudoko site CluedUp for the Daily Telegraph in the last quarter of 2008 – I built the Flex Crosswords and Sudoku Applications/Modules. Behind the scenes it’s one of my best structured projects to date and uses the following technologies/approaches:
- Adobe Flex 3
- PureMVC MutliCore (Pipes)
- AMFPHP Remoting (for loading, saving and submitting user crossword data)
About me
I'm a Freelance iPhone and iPad Developer based in Brighton, UK with an additional 10+ years experience developing web and desktop applications.
I freelance directly for UK and US clients such as the BBC, Channel 4, Pearson, Manga High, Gridclub and numerous others.
I've developed Apps that have been recognised by Apple for intuitive design such as Portfolio To Go: the perfect iPad app for artists and photographers who use Flickr.com to showcase their photographs online. A winner of Apple's 'iPad App of the Week' award.
I've conceived and developed e-learning solutions such as a desktop application that enables content writers at Pearson to create 100s of Interactive Learning CD-Roms each year.
I've developed Flash games and applications for BAFTA award winning websites. I regularly post and share tips on iPhone and Flex Development on my blog and present at Software Development User Groups and was one of the 3 minute wonders at Flash on the Beach '09 conference drawing parallels between Flash and iPhone Development to the 1000+ attendees in the Brighton Dome.
