So after giving it a bit of a think, I've come up with how this site is going to operate. It's part social network, part blogging platform (but mostly just a glorified pinboard).

Designing the site

The second chunk of project we have to complete this fortnight is PHP and MySQL based. The brief is pretty loose on this one. It's simply making a website that puts things and/or gets things from a database. Of course, in the lessons we've done a simple comments system and image uploader, but I'm aiming to go that little bit further and cramming it all into one and making it portable.

Designing a site with database interaction

I've been inspired by Rob Hawke's Rawkets to get off my behind and start learning me some new standards. I'd known about HTML5 for a long time and have long been sceptical about it. What, with all the hoo-hah of HTML5 vs. Flash, and being an avid Flash fan, I didn't really want to concede at first glance. Now there's a future where they can work together, I guess it's a push in the right direction.

Sticky Notes in CSS3

The first task of our second year was to create a game in Unity 3D – a game engine that's free to download. There's plenty of games, both in browser and downloadable, that use it and so it only seems logical that we should give it a go and see what it's like.

Spaced – The First Frontier

Success! I passed my first year of Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth Uni. Go me! But that's not really what this post is about.

Level I and What’s in store

For the past couple of summers, I’ve given myself a project to keep my mind at least a little active until it’s time to come use it again in September. This year’s no different, and there’s a few ideas milling around my head, but I want to do something involving Twitter and Flash.

Playing with the Tweener class

Once we all had collected the idea of what our collaborative project would have as it’s video content, the interactive element was kind of pushed to the side-line. We were left to try and make the story that was told through the video seem interactive to the visitor.

Ward 413 – Making an interactive panorama

The latest project for university has involved making a Flash animation. Just the other day I’d finished making it, so I thought I’d take you through a bit of the development - because that’s always interesting, right?

Popferret – The ins and outs

Obviously, if you’re going to tell a story, it’s a good idea to know what that story is before you go and tell it. So that’s why I’ve drawn up a storyboard. It helps to know exactly what you’re planning to do beforehand, rather than make it up as you go along. You don’t get as stuck then.

Popferret Storyboard

The next project is an animation in Flash lasting a couple of minutes. Now I’ve done plenty of work in Flash, but that’s specifically missing out animation of characters because – in all honesty – I can’t draw. So I needed to find an animation I could do without doing too much drawing by hand.

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