Well it’s not normally the best time to launch site (late at night, 12 hours before leaving for France) but I’ve just put my latest little project up and on to the internet, www.rotornot.co.uk.

ROT or NOT is a sister site for Crawl of the Dead. It works by showing random zombies who are registered on Crawl of the Dead, and letting internet users rate them. It’s just a bit of fun but hopefully a nice way of attracting new zombies to sign up on to CrawlOfTheDead.com.

Now I just wait for the spammers to hack my code to shreds, they tend to enjoy sites like this.

I’ve just finished work on my second version of Crawl of the Dead!
Ever since the site launched I have not been pleased with it, so after a few months of hard spare-time graft, I’ve finished version 2. Or “2.0″ if you like. It’s got some general improvements to the design plus some new features.

CrawlOfTheDead.com is a social networking site for Zombies. “Because zombies need friends too…”

If you’re a zombie, get yourself over there!

Discover Guild Wars is flash based promotional site for the Guild Wars trilogy of games. I set about designing Discover Guild Wars at the end of 2006; the project later expanded in to a two-man team project which was great considering the amount of work to be done. I’m quite pleased with the results, the original designs didn’t have to change too much and with Flash supporting Blend modes and layer styles, it makes life alot easier. Anyway, Discover Guild Wars is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish. Nice.
I learnt a few things too. Mainly, that this mctween class is awesome (nice one Marek).
And never, ever use shared Library items in Flash. They’re an utter pain in the arse.

The European Exteel website, is one of the smaller projects I’ve worked on at NCsoft. It’s a teaser site for a mech game, Exteel. But oddly, this site is one of the most pleasing pieces of work I’ve ever done. I think perhaps due to it’s scale, I’ve managed to complete everthing to the standard I’m happy with and at the same time not had to compromise my design too much through the amends process.

Maybe it’s the use of Pin Light blends and those awesome hexagon patterns that makes me like it. Or the BIG ROBOTS.

I worked on MeckOnline.com as a freelance project, working directly with Meck himself. DJ Meck is a number one selling pop DJ in the UK charts. He needed a web presence with specific tools, like a podcast, photo galleries, biography and a place to give the latest news on his goings-on. Along with designing and building the website, I completed a content management tool, allowing all the content on the site to be updated by him and his team. Including an MP3 upload tool for use with the podcast.

The European Auto Assault Website was the first full community site I designed since starting at NCsoft in late March 2005. It was also the first full site I had ever produced in multiple languages, in this case: English, French and German. The temperature guage at the top of the site was an idea that came about from the wanton desire to burn the entire thing. I got to implement over an over the top, ‘burning design’ with lots of heavy flash content, ahem, at the discretion of the user.
And if you’re half-clever, you might try turning the site up to 11…