Description: I thought that some of the readers of this blog might benefit from a short list of game concepts that I compiled last week when helping a client develop a proposal for a Flash game.
Links:
Multiplayer or might be interesting if we turned it into multiplayer:
fantasticfour game
fridge letters
capoeira fighter 3
gimp roulette (imagine with a crowd of realtime users, betting on the outcome, etc.)
paintball
bowman (very simple and effective, imagine if everyone can shoot eachother while chatting)
ISO:
last dalek
glaktor
laser envy
Adventure / role play
crimson room (good implementation of vector3d in first person)
questfortherest (slow! but like the treatment)
sylvaniah
rocketman
Contagious stuff:
mushroom
elbow twist
Funny:
pee soakamon
antcity
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Thursday, April 21, 2005
AirportMonitor Realtime Airtrafic Viewer
Link: http://www4.passur.com/lax.html
Description: AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information in the terminal airspace, deployed at an airport's website.
My Thoughts: What a neat visualizing application for checking plane locations in realtime online. Very well executed as far as java applets go. However with my obvious bias to the richmedia side, I cant help but think what it could turn into if it is re-deployed in Flash with a little more slick design exploration.
Description: AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information in the terminal airspace, deployed at an airport's website.
My Thoughts: What a neat visualizing application for checking plane locations in realtime online. Very well executed as far as java applets go. However with my obvious bias to the richmedia side, I cant help but think what it could turn into if it is re-deployed in Flash with a little more slick design exploration.
Monday, April 11, 2005
Zoubin at FITC2005 Conference
Link: http://www.fitc.ca/Presenters.cfm?p=5730
Description: Now entering their fourth year, FITC combines cutting edge technical speakers with inspirational creative speakers from around the world. Each year, FITC has broadened its programming range to grow with its widening audience and appeal to a larger audience.
My Thoughts: Both my expert panel on "Designing Your Business For Success" and my presentation on "newmedia project management" where received well at the conference. It is nice to see the business and process issues becoming more of a concern in the richmedia production industry.
As always, Shawn and his crew have done a stellar job of organizing one of the North America's most important events in the richmedia production space.
Description: Now entering their fourth year, FITC combines cutting edge technical speakers with inspirational creative speakers from around the world. Each year, FITC has broadened its programming range to grow with its widening audience and appeal to a larger audience.
My Thoughts: Both my expert panel on "Designing Your Business For Success" and my presentation on "newmedia project management" where received well at the conference. It is nice to see the business and process issues becoming more of a concern in the richmedia production industry.
As always, Shawn and his crew have done a stellar job of organizing one of the North America's most important events in the richmedia production space.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Audio support for blog posts
Description: Here is an experiment in the implementation of audio in a professional subject blog as an exercise to boost its marketing mileage.
My Thoughts: About a week or so ago, I started thinking along the track of how other types of media can compliment the use of a blog.
It all started with me thinking that the continued explosion of the blogsphere means shorter attention span for the readers of this blog as time goes on! Although there are some great blog search tools, and aggregators out there to help you navigate through the clutter, I was wondering if alternate forms of media can make the actual blog easier to consume, or at least make it easier for the user to determine if they’d like to read your content. Therefore increasing its consumption rate?
My next challenge was the easy production of the content in a consistent manor. Sure, we can all sit there with a microphone and record a paragraph, but how many takes would it take to cut out those terrible um’s and uh’s? Not to practical if I plan to have an audio support file for every post!
Therefore I decided to quickly and easily apply a standard ‘text to speech’ program to create audio entries to compliment the postings of the blog. The computer voice provided a very consistent tone to all the entries, while being very quick and easy for me to update along with each blog entry. I also created a simple flash based .mp3 reader to embed in my standard, free, Blogger account to make the publishing process as painless as possible. (note: If youre interested, I can part with this system for a small fee!)
The marketing angle behind all this is, if my blog is easier to digest, then it will be read more, and go a long way to promote my for-hire thinking.
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this experiment and my approach to its implementation, so please free to send me [ zmv@zarinmedia.com ]
a quick email giving me your feedback.
My Thoughts: About a week or so ago, I started thinking along the track of how other types of media can compliment the use of a blog.
It all started with me thinking that the continued explosion of the blogsphere means shorter attention span for the readers of this blog as time goes on! Although there are some great blog search tools, and aggregators out there to help you navigate through the clutter, I was wondering if alternate forms of media can make the actual blog easier to consume, or at least make it easier for the user to determine if they’d like to read your content. Therefore increasing its consumption rate?
My next challenge was the easy production of the content in a consistent manor. Sure, we can all sit there with a microphone and record a paragraph, but how many takes would it take to cut out those terrible um’s and uh’s? Not to practical if I plan to have an audio support file for every post!
Therefore I decided to quickly and easily apply a standard ‘text to speech’ program to create audio entries to compliment the postings of the blog. The computer voice provided a very consistent tone to all the entries, while being very quick and easy for me to update along with each blog entry. I also created a simple flash based .mp3 reader to embed in my standard, free, Blogger account to make the publishing process as painless as possible. (note: If youre interested, I can part with this system for a small fee!)
The marketing angle behind all this is, if my blog is easier to digest, then it will be read more, and go a long way to promote my for-hire thinking.
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this experiment and my approach to its implementation, so please free to send me [ zmv@zarinmedia.com ]
a quick email giving me your feedback.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Flash BOSS
Link: http://www.boss.com/
Description: A good example of a sleek, flash based fashion product site
My Thoughts: This very sleek flash based product site for high polished brand Hugo Boss uses elegantly minimal graphic design sensibilities coupled with richmedia exploration features making this a great exercise of branding communication.
Thanks to Dragan Djordjevic of multiidea.com for sending me the this link.
Description: A good example of a sleek, flash based fashion product site
My Thoughts: This very sleek flash based product site for high polished brand Hugo Boss uses elegantly minimal graphic design sensibilities coupled with richmedia exploration features making this a great exercise of branding communication.
Thanks to Dragan Djordjevic of multiidea.com for sending me the this link.
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