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January 13, 2007 | Miniclip
The latest issue of .Net magazine is published today, and in it is an article written by me, about Miniclip.com.
It was actually a task that was thrust upon me after my return from Malaysia, however I enjoy this sort of thing so was happy to give it a go.
The article ended up being a short piece on the history of web animation, along with an even shorter tutorial giving a brief run-down of how we create our homepage animations.
All in all I think it turned out pretty well, it’s certainly nice to see my name in print 
Normally I would say something like “and I recommend you all rush out and get a copy”, but since I am only on one page, and I gain nothing from you buying it, I won’t. I still think it’s cool though!
I have been rather quiet on the blogging front recently and there have been two reasons for this. Number 1 - well… see the title of this post, and number 2? I’ll explain that one in a week or so.
Anyway a couple of weeks ago (10th of July 2006) the new Miniclip website was released. For those who don’t know Miniclip is the company I work for, as a web/ game designer.
For the last 7 months we have been working on the design and implementation of the Miniclip site and, as a web designer, I got to do all of the html. Yay!
The design was a collaboration between myself and another designer. Once the layout was decided upon Nic (the other designer) took the lead on styling and fine tuning the design and I got to play with the code. We also built a brand new cms (content …
A couple of weeks ago I was taken to New York for the 10th annual Webby Awards. Miniclip, the company I work for, had won the peoples voice award for gaming and the boss was kind enough to invite me (and a couple of others) along to the ceremony (thanks a lot Rob).
We flew over on the Saturday, spent the Sunday lazing around in New York (lots of time in Central Park), did a bit of businessy stuff Monday morning, then had the show Monday evening.
Lots of photos were taken on the trip, unfortunately most of mine were a bit rubbish, but I have included some of the nicer ones below. Thanks to Nic for the picture that includes me (do you like …
Miniclip, the company I work for, has won the peoples Voice Webby Award for Games, for the second year running.
Hooray.
Interestingly the site that won the critics choice for games was running a game that Miniclip commissioned. Is that a double win for us? Obviously it’s not but congrats should go to Bloc Media who made an incredibly cool game, Stackopolis.
Ok - technically I’m not up for a Webby but the company I work for, Miniclip, is up for an award.
We’re clearly the best company in the games category so head on over there and show your support
We won the peoples voice last year but there wasn’t much competition, this year we’re up against Star Wars Galaxies and Disney’s Toon Town, both very big companies with a lot of dedicated users.
I do lots of different things at work, web design, graphic design, animation, and programming - I have to turn my hand to whatever is required, and I seem to be working on something different every day - it’s great. One of my favourite jobs though is working on video games. I tend to have a game project going on all the time, it’s something I can do when everything else is finished.
The games that I work on are generally games that lack something graphically, I get to take the basic game and turn it into something more playable and attractive. Below I have outlined a few of the more recent games that have been released, the ones I’m most proud of.
XRaye
Play XRaye now
This game was released at the start of this year. It’s based on a fairly old, very difficult, game that was quite nice to play, …
Binary Moon
Bubble Blitz
ExGen
Seths Puzzle Boxes
Rocket Boards