Client work and personal projects.
Revolv is a local Boulder company building a product that will tie together all your smart home devices and connect them to the web so you can control them in an intuitive and fun way. They approached me with an existing wordpress site, a design for a new homepage, and a challenge to implement it all and make it responsive. I worked with them to generate the different layouts for each potential screen size while making sure the content hierarchy still made sense.
I had the great opportunity to work with Seventh Generation on the release site for their new Boosts products. I was hired to do the development work, which included a fully interactive quiz to help viewers find the right Boost for their skin as well as the minor parallax effect of the backgrounds. While the site seems simple at first glance, it was a blast to work with the different JS systems that drive the parallax and the quiz.
Another really fun project for Edie! When we launched the original site last year, she decided to start doing a new song every day. She stuck with it and one year later, to commemorate the Song of the Day, I built a media player specifically for handling this part of the site. Working alone this time, I developed the system that interfaces with Soundcloud to pull in and stream tracks with their API.
Working with Tag New Media, I was tasked with implementing this design in their CMS, Sitefinity. The project used ASP.NET, C#, and the Sitefinity CMS all in tandem. I worked to create several in-site modules as well as customization on top of the core Sitefinity functionality. I also implemented the base Twitter Bootstrap as requested by the client. The map on the Public Charging Stations uses NREL data combined with the Google Maps API to give users a usable map filled with real data.
Built to help show off HBO’s Banshee tv show. Developed using HTML, LESS, and JS alone, using the Flixmaster video API. This allowed us to connect the video directly to the page, which results in graphics fades to increase the engagement with the site. While relatively image-heavy, the site is built to load as quickly as possible.
Project for Efficiency Vermont. Built a multi-use widget for their Sitefinity system that pulls in data through ASP.NET and prints it out in an interactive way. Look at the different light types and wattage to see data about average costs for the different types of bulbs. There is even a mobile version of the widget that adjusts the layout to fit on a smaller screen.
In order to launch their new initiative, GraphMassive, SpotRight needed to overhaul their site to make way for new content. Built in wordpress, the theme is created to be lean and mean, giving the editors a great deal of power over the content that’s displayed. I generated a few base templates and built the initial page layouts to help launch the build. The blog took on a new form as well.
Fun project for Green Mountain Coffee meant to showcase their different Keurig brewing options. Uses javascript to create simple animations, bringing life to the pages. Built within the Sitecore system.
I was pulled in to this project a little under half way through it’s development. I worked in tandem with another developer on copy updates, but my main focus was on the Our Beverages page and the associated Javascript. Using jQuery I implemented the sliding animation and used CSS to make everything fit. The project also went through Sitecore and required posting and updating new content.
Developed from the Starkers wordpress theme, the ASPCA Founder’s Society site is meant to allow members to nominate local groups for a chance to win a $5,000 grant from the ASPCA. Using the voting system developed by Giveo, I implemented the designs and utilized the wordpress CMS in order to give all the control to the client.
I was approached by Edie’s team with a request for developing a brand new site to show off Edie’s work. They sent over some imagery of the Jukebox theme that they had been exploring. I pulled in a designer and good friend of mine, Ben Miller, to help move the theme into an applicable design. Over the course of several months we designed and developed the site to help showcase Edie’s music, videos, and photos. There has been great and positive feedback from Edie’s team and this project has been a blast to work on!
Working in Flash, I created the Worth Discovering mini-game which tasks users with finding all of the hidden treasures of Tully’s Coffee. Using the mouse to explore the scene, you can learn more about the process and Tully’s passion for roasting.
Working on a small team at TAG New Media, we designed and built a microsite to help promote Green Mountain Coffee’s Revv K-Cups. Powerful coffee meant to meet competition in the energy drink crowd, we needed something as high energy as the coffee itself. Using the packaging design, we built visualizations around the amped up audio and motion to match. We also built a game that has players dodging walls and grabbing Revv K-Cups to boost in a constantly moving tunnel.
Working at TAG New Media, I worked with a small team to build this site for Champlain College’s Game Studio program. The college offers several tracks for game students including Art and Animation, Design, Programming, and Production. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Design track while at Champlain and very excited to be a part of this site’s development.
This was the final project of my career at Champlain College. The first semester was all about the design of the game. Josh Camire and I were the two designers of Epoxy and together we worked to produce a prototype. Our project was selected to move forward into production second semester. I acted as the only programmer on the team, helping with odd-jobs of miscellaneous necessities within the project.
Classic Snake game. Collect the apples and avoid the walls and your tail! Arrow keys control the movement.
Attempt to re-create the classic by Atari. Use the space bar to fire and the arrow keys to move and rotate. You can move forward and backwards in this one!
This is the result of an iterative development process that started with a single line built from sound channel values. Eventually I introduced some trigonometry to get a circular visual, and then later added the blurring effect.
Ran across a few CounterStrike maps online that claimed to improve the muscle memory required to better your First Person Shooter skills. I decided that it could definitely be done in Flash and set out to do so. It actually works too! You can watch your skill improve!
Based on some initial explorations of generative art and random paths, I created a generic Fly system. Each fly has a chance to live, die, or split at any time once created. The result creates random art based on user input. Click to spawn a group!
Drift is a game that was built and designed for my Game Production II class. The game design, which was a group effort, utilized a very simple gravity-based mechanic which allows the player to maneuver through the world by using gravity wells. The project had a very short time frame, so I developed the engine to be very modular and allow us to be designing, developing, and level-building almost at the same time.
