Max Media

Lure of the Labyrinth

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:19:05 +0000

description
Produced several games for Fablevision and Maryland Public Television to teach middle school math concepts in an engaging, completely original approach. Games used a rich storyline and visuals to invite users to figure out which mathematical concepts were relevant, and how to solve the various puzzles to advance through the game world.

technical
Flash AS2

Adobe MAX Mobile Guide

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:05:27 +0000

description
Produced mobile conference guide for Adobe and Untravel Media including all session information, schedule, and related videos streamed directly to the phone using the Flash Lite 3.1 distributable player. Layout would dynamically adjust depending on current orientation (landscape vs portrait) of the device.

technical
Flash Lite, flv video

TrendMicro Threat Widgets

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:55:55 +0000

description
Produced several widgets for PJA and TrendMicro showcasing their malware and spam services. Used Papervision 3D to give an engaging view of their corporate offices around the world. Used Yahoo Maps API integrated with Flash to allow users to browser malware and spam activity by country.

technical
Flash AS2, flv video, Papervision3D, Mapping API

Citrix Chatterbox

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:31:21 +0000

description
Worked with e-Tractions and Network World to produce an interactive, 3D content browsing interface for Citrix white papers. Each content square on the 3D cube can be visually related to other squares based on tags embedded in the data, and controlled via a slider bar.

technical
Flash AS3, Papervision3D

Species Explorer

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:21 +0000

description
Species Explorer is an independent project created by Max Media, with the goal of connecting people to their local wildlife. The project will use both mobile and web-based components to allow entering nature observations, sharing within an online community of other “species explorers,” adding geocode and image data, and much more. This project is currently in production.

technical
Flash Lite 2.x, Flex

mDog Flash Lite client

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:37:41 +0000

description
Worked with mDog to produce a Flash Lite content browser for some of mDog’s high profile clients in the publishing industry. mDog is in charge of “mobilizing” content for a virtual who’s who of publishing, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, MarketWatch, Barron’s, Billboard, Computerworld, and many more. This project is currently in production.

technical
Flash Lite 2.x, Windows Mobile

Untravel Media Interactive Travel Media

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:14:44 +0000

description
Worked with Untravel Media, a mobile startup, to produce the Flash Lite client for their walking tour product. Untravel Media “offers an end-to-end solution for easily creating immersive location-based media for mobile.” Max Media programmed the Flash Lite component of Untravel’s “Mobile Narrative System” which serves as the platform for running the tours on various mobile devices, including iRiver Clix, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. This project is currently in production.

technical
Flash Lite 2.x, Symbian, Clix, Windows Mobile

Leapfrog Backyardigans game

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:44:57 +0000

description
Worked with 360KID to develop two games for the Leapster L-Max based on the Backyardigans animated television series. Programmed in Flash 5 with hooks into the Leapster API. The games included the “Frozen North” and “Beach.”

technical
AS1.0, Leapster

Hasbro ION Educational Gaming System

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:34:04 +0000

description
Worked with 360KID to develop several games for the innovative Hasbro ION Gaming System, including titles for Bob the Builder, the Wiggles, and Blue’s Clues. The ION system is “an electronic learning tool that uses unique motion-sensing technology to put your child live in the game, right on your TV.”

technical
AS1.0, integration of external art files for use in Flash

Books By You

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:59:52 +0000

description
Worked with Fablevision and Knowledge Adventure to produce Books By You, a language arts software product for ages 8 and up. Features:

Four exciting story lines - endless possibilities
Answer John Lithgow’s simple questions to transform the stories
Change and edit each chapter of your book
Challenging words are introduced to expand vocabulary
Import digital photos or drawings to personalize the book

Was lead programmer on the Flash production, working with a Director programmer as well to integrate BBY within a Director shell. Ultimately, users could order actual books based on their work via Lulu.com.

technical
Flash AS2, pdf, Director