Archive for the ‘Miniclip’ Category
A category based upon Miniclip – the company I have worked for since August 2004.
.Net magazine – out now – featuring me!
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 ...
New Miniclip website
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 ...
Miniclip wins Webby Award – I get to go to New York
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 ...
Miniclip wins a Webby Award – yay for me!
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.
Vote for me at the Webbys… please
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.
What I do at Miniclip
I do lots of different things during my day job at Miniclip.com, 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 ...
Miniclip Game Development Competition
Not to be outdone by the BBC and Channel 4, Miniclip has today announced that we are going to run a Flash game development competition.
We've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now, and are really excited to see the types of games that people are going to come up with. I'm bound to be biased but I must say I think our competition is the best of the bunch. The main advantage ...
Rocket Boards is a super fast 3D rocket boarding action. My first "commercial" (shareware) product. Didn't do amazingly well but was a good learning experience
Bubble Bomb is a polished update of a game originally built by Warren Marshal (who works at Epic games - developers of Unreal and Gears of War)
My own update of Bubble Bomb, Bubble Blitz was almost a total rewrite adding loads of new features and a shiny new look.
Seths Puzzle Boxes is a puzzle game with a surprisingly enjoyable story line, unfortunately it's quite short so won't take long to complete, but while it lasts is great fun.