June 29th, 2008
Thinking ahead to the 4th year game’s module and the fact I heard that part of the module is writing an essay on a game, well here is my most likely answer:
Personally I think this is the best game concept ever, and its still great after ten years.
June 28th, 2008
I have started work on a new design for http://www.mattwreford.com/, the owner of which felt that his existing site wasn’t really up to scratch. Knowing only that the client likes very simple and minimal designs, here is a screenshot of my initial layout and general concept for the site.
It will be quite a simple structure of 5 pages (four plus a link to a CV download) as requested, tabbed, and with two main content columns that serve different purposes on each page. For the CSS aspect of this design I have experimented with fluid column widths on both sides, where the content is grouped clearly in two blocks but they centre and expand within their columns with the resizing of the page.
June 14th, 2008
Here is a pencil sketch of Calm Down (from the 80’s cartoon Stoppit and Tidyup) drawn while waiting between support messages for a server yesterday. Very theraputic.
June 12th, 2008
Here is a preview of the new design (essentially the same theme) based around Drupal as a core. I’m still mightily impressed with the capabilities of this CMS.
The design is pushing the boundaries of CSS a little bit and its also using transparent PNG backgrounds like before, but now the box sizes are flexible to accomodate a fluid width design!
June 7th, 2008
I completed this design a while back, but the original design concept image I posted up still seems to get a fair amount of interest so here is a finished (but not the final agreed) version of the logo for the site as well.
Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
