Last week I completed another little stint at the White Agency, Sydney. The brief was to create a little simple flash game that could be played through the opera browser on the Wii console. It was for a company called Sirtex Medical Ltd. and they wanted to create the game to highlight there medical technology in treating liver cancer with radiation.

The aim of the game was to kill off the cancerous tumors by injecting the proprietory Sirtex radiation spheres in the quickest time possible, using the Wii remote you needed to have find the right blood vessel and inject the radiation.

Responsible for the game development and helping with design it was a rather enjoyable little project, as it was educational in the process. The game is going to be the key part of their exhibition which is expected to be displayed at a number of medical expos in the future.

I have just finished an intense flash workout at BMF in Sydney, I was hired as a freelance flash developer to develop an interactive colouring in competition for CBA Dollarmites Club. Created in AS3 this was my first agency project in AS3 working in collaboration with design, animators and other developers it was definately an intense coding moment. From my point of view I was bought in mid way into the project, with the designs, animations and a couple of class files already developed. I was given the task of pulling it all together and making it work.

On the first day arriving I was flooded with work, and told there was a strict deadline ect. The usual really, however, generally coming midway into a flash project you need a day or two to get your head around whats going on, especially now with AS3 and its strict datatyping adding timeline animations into code was a new experience… The problem with these ‘rush’ jobs, is it seems structure and planning are usually developed with the project.

After my usual, ‘work when I want’, to doing an initial 75hr first week, it was a brutal, yet invigorating jolt to the system. Magic Map Competition is now live (click on competition link here) and after finshing another flash landing page for AUS Star my work had dried up at BMF. Overall I enjoyed working there, it’s a good agency with really cool people, and hopefully they’ll want me back.

I’ve decided I it would be nice to use it Paper Vision 3D in my porfolio. The thing is it needs to be used in a effective useful manner as you tend to see a lot of sites just using it for the heck! So just for the heck, I’ve created a 3D business card… I’ve got a lot to learn, but it’s fun!

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