The software needed to work across a wide range of different specification laptops including both Windows and Macs, must be installable and require no internet connection and should also allow for multiple language content.

I developed the application using Adobe Flash, Actionscript 3.0 and delivered it as an AIR application.

In addition to working on the overall concept for the exhibition and media (including projected and audio installations), my primary role was the design, development and on-site installation of a suite of touch screen interactives, including:

Conservation Explorer provides a wealth of information about Victory’s construction and on-going restoration and conservation. Supported by modern day and archive photography, video, plans and diagrams, the content is accessible through a fully interactive timeline, a categorised elevation and plan of the ship, six key phases in Victory’s history and also a huge media browser. Displayed in full HD, the interactive showcases the best from the Victory archives.

Shipwright’s Apprentice features two games. The Repair Challenge asks visitors to try their hand at looking after and maintaining Victory, including dealing with an attack of Death watch beetles, leaks and water damage and giving Victory a new paint job. Get it wrong and you’ll be fired from a cannon! This interactive also includes a quiz about Victory, rewarding players with promotion up through the ranks.

The Next 250 Years is a questionnaire that provides visitors with an opportunity to give their views and opinions about Victory, including what should happen to her in the future. Responses are stored for the museum staff to analyse.

Using a similar format to previous Aviva interactives, Our Plan 2011 half year update is video-rich and focuses on the plans and priorities for Aviva UK during the second half of 2011, while also highlighting their achievements during the first half of the year.

Working with eko create, the interactive was developed initially for CD-ROM distribution, followed shortly after by an intranet delivery.

The annual update CD-ROM which I developed back in November 2010 has recently won a marketing award for best internal communications strategy.

Created for Ordsall Hall in Salford, a haunted Tudor manor house over 800 years old, the game pits you against the ghosts of four historical characters, each from a different period. Based on the characters of Lady Margaret, Sir John Radclyffe and children Thomas and Emily, the ghosts are brilliantly illustrated by Chris Jevons and post-produced by ay-pe. In order to discover their stories, you must catch each ghost as many times as you can throughout the Great Hall and the Star Chamber rooms, before the clock runs out of time.

Over several months I spent a number of weeks programming and animating, mindful that the game needed to work on a touch screen kiosk with bells and whistles aplenty, but could then be easily adapted and optimised for use on the web. It required quite a bit of research and testing to get the right balance of visual quality, while still being able to play smooth and fast and also be web-friendly. Developed in Adobe Flash using ActionScript 3.0, the touch screen kiosk version was published as an AIR desktop application and the subsequent web version was delivered as a Flash interactive.

You can play the Friendly Phantoms kiosk version right now, converted for the web in all it’s glory! It’s a 26MB download, so if you haven’t got a super fast internet connection then please be patient, it will be worth the wait. You’ll need the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player.

Don’t forget to turn your speakers on… …and enjoy!

My role involved creating almost 200 flash animations to help explain all manner of keystage 2 mathematics topics, aimed at 7-11 year old school children.

Working with ay-pe, I’ve developed an interactive touch screen flipbook that provides visitors with a novel way to identify and learn about the fish and creatures on display.

This video-rich interactive focuses on the company’s plans and priorities for 2011, and also highlights some of their key achievements during 2010. Working with eko create, I have developed the interactive to be delivered initially on CD-ROM, followed by an intranet distribution.

The software is designed to keep members of staff at the RAC informed and up to date during the pension scheme changes and consultation which are currently taking place within the company. The changes to the pension scheme are presented in the simplest and most straightforward way possible, by using a combination of voice over, with synchronised and animated charts, text and calculations.

Working with eko create, I have developed a kiosk interactive that will be updated over the coming weeks and months, as the consultation progresses.

Holoshark is a dual screen, high definition and dual language touch screen interactive that allows visitors to peel away the layers of a shark. A touch screen allows rotation and examination of the computer generated shark through each of the layers: senses, skeleton, internal organs, muscles and skin. A second screen displays a video of the computer generated shark layer swimming through the sea.

Global Warming, the second interactive, is also high definition and dual language. This interactive shows how sea levels might change globally or locally around Turkey, and is projected onto a round table. The sea level can be raised and lowered by turning a physical wheel; the language and world view can be changed by pressing physical buttons.