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New Site Design Up and Running

Simon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:42:25 +0000

So finally I’ve switched my website to the new design, with a hefty number of new bits and pieces being added so you’ll have to bear with me for a little while as things get sorted out. Some of the bigger changes include integrating twitter (for which I have had an unused account for years) as a sort of microblogging tool, separating my university work from my professional portfolio and integrating a ‘Related Posts’ system which I have had in mind for a long time but have only just discovered a brilliant plugin that does all the hard work for me.

Above is a shot of a couple of the images I’ve produced for new site features.

You can find that related posts plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/similar-posts/. Another plugin by the same authors is one that shows a list of the most recent posts. In the old design I had this functionality hardcoded into the theme footer but now it can be done with a single line of PHP.

New SRJM Logo Design

Simon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:24:28 +0000

I’ve started work on a new logo design for myself:

New Site Design Underway

Simon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:15:21 +0000

I have actually been slowly working on this (slowly being a bit of an understatement) for a while but keep having to put it off for other commitments. Usually this means I get a bit of time when I’m tired and not up to doing much else and a stint on Fallout III is only going to make things worse.

However here are a couple more screenshots of a general basic layout and more button-y bits since the last lot of menu icons!

Other plans include a bigger better blog post preview image, related posts links, using the excerpt field of posts and some form of proper search function that includes AJAX-ed suggestions.

Marathon Sketch Upload to Flickr

Simon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:17:04 +0000

I’ve scanned and uploaded a whole load of things I had intended to for quite a while. This is because I had my scanner out to scan a sketch for the new site’s header image:

Among some pretty random old stuff, there were also a couple of concept sketches for my recent Final Year Project:

Website menu buttons in vector:

And a quick scribble of an idea for the idat menu button:

Wine Website Design Samples

Simon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:55:19 +0000

Here is a better sample of the graphics I have been working on after studying a number of sites suggested by the client as to the style they are looking for.

Individual vine leaf vector graphics:

New Site Icons

Simon — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:21:57 +0000

A couple of preview screenshots of some of the vector icons I’ve been producing for the new website design:

Project Site Graphics

Simon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:39:11 +0000

I have decided to have a separate set of showcase pages for my project, to be used to present information about various aspects. Currently it’s literally just the header design, but this features a wavy line of icons that represent the process:

Gameplay Video

Simon — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:19:01 +0000

A video of us testing the game for the first time after setting up the arcade controller. It should be explained that we were experimenting with some of the powers, and how they might be best used in real levels, resulting in some pretty hilarious attacks and counter-attacks (that’s half way to game success already surely?):

Powers available: The map rotator, the control inverter and blindness.

Also a shot of the arcade controller we would be using:

Game Screenshot

Simon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:41:31 +0000

Having finished linking animations to actual realtime world movement I thought it was time for another screenshot since the game is really coming together. Here you can observe a character jumping down from a height while the blocks get revealed by the map movement mid-transition.

Also below are a couple of power up objects.

More Game Icons (and Update)

Simon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:12:59 +0000

I spent a huge amount of time over the weekend attempting to build a ‘rotateWorld’ function that animates the flipping of the world on its head, while inverting all the controls, collisions and gravity etc. to cope with being upsidedown!

More icons

Meanwhile however here are some additional collectible/buttons/mechanics icons for the game:

In order: Blank, Gravity, Vision, Random Teleports, Jump Strength and World Flip.