As this job had a strict deadline and was going through massive changes during the development phase, I wrote some basic AS-Classes to be able to change all parameters of the animation quickly and without having to tween everything from scratch again everytime someone says: “this is moving to fast”. So with the help of these classes we were able to complete the job in time and, as far as I think, very well.

My part in this was the development of the basic classes for controlling the animations, scripting the animations and trying to keep the filesize as low as possible

All in all there I did about 15 banners in various sizes and different animations.

The System is set up on ad:ekons own CMS and I developed some flash-gimmicks and a few modules for the CMS to fullfill the tasks for the site.

The designer was Olivia Schuff from Wundergestalten.

It all looks very satisfying. My independent study about alternative game controls called “vectoids” got an A, my research about the differences between the asian and european understanding of media and mass communication too, and my course “network and internet security” got me still a B+. I am very happy about that and it totally fullfilled my hopes.

I’d really like to go there again as it was a very inspiring time…maybe I’ll do a master degree abroad.

The company is located  in Rama 9, Soi 17 in Bangkok and is specialised on heavy state of the art virtual effects…they do a lot of great and interesting stuff there. Check out their commercials and showreel. I just love the clip with the shakespearean gecko which can be found in the commercials section of the Digital Magic VFX division.

My responsibility was the design of the database, the content management system and the export of the data for the frontend. The Flash movie is driven by XML data generated by the backend. Main features are multi user support, automatic generation of XML content for the frontend and full flexibility while designing the pages.

kind: commercial work

I was very happy because of this opportunity. Since I normally don´t have enough free time to develop something like this just for fun.

The final result is a game based on billiard physics. You take over the controlls of a ball, but you can not hit enemys directly. So you have to prod a little attack-ball against them. This sounds easier than it is. I implemented lots of different enemys, different backgrounds that have different friction and finally keyboard-controlls for all those who don´t have a MacBook.

You can find the game on its own site. Just download the version that suits your system and give it a shot prod.

kind: study work

The running system can be seen at the entrance area of the township of Bremen.

kind: commercial work

A game I developed for a course named “media engineering”. The task was to develop an application in Flash. Since I just bought a new Apple MacBook, I played around with the built-in sudden motion sensor and the motion library for Processing by Daniel Shiffman.

The final result is a game completly controlled by tilting the notebook (if you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro). Your hero is a little alien in his spacebeacon who came to earth to kill all cows. In 5 different levels he encounters various creatures of local farmlife like chickens, horses and of course cows. Goal is to kill the objectives in each level by flying over them and activate your primary weapon by screaming louder than a predefined treshold in your microphone.

CAUTION My neighbors told me that you look quite silly while playing this game since they watched me for iver 3 weeks while developing through the window running around with the notebook in hands and screaming at it.

The whole game is written in Flash with object-oriented AS2. The data from the sensor is delivered to Flash by a Server I wrote in Java with the mentioned library.

For further information, you can read the documentation (0.5 Mb, german language)

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The basic idea was to create a learning game that orientates itself towards modern computer games. Since most pieces of learning software are rather poor developed and designed, we wanted to create something that is actually fun to play and to learn with.

Subject of the game is the computer itself, nowadays, the computer is still a mystery to most people. They are afraid of breaking something and are overcharged in cases of errors. The goal was to explain the basic principal of the computer, the “mystical gray box”, according to the “von Neumann Architecture“. All learning steps are embeded in a storyline and filled up with humor and mingames.

During this year of development we created a radio show, several paper prototypes, a survey with over 800 pupils, tons of rendered graphics, scenarios for every component of the computer and characters to make the world as realistic as possible.

The final result is a protoype of software and a completly created world with zeros and ones as citizens, buildings for every component and an exciting and funny storyline.

If you are interested, you can read the final report on this project (10.4 Mb, german language)

or listen to the radio show (43 Mb, german language, .ogg format)

kind: study work

The requirements were: WordPress as a blogging system, and an integrated management system for the authors, books and orders.

Sadly the project never came over the first phase although the system was ready to launch.

My part was the modification of WordPress and the development of several plugins to realise the requirements. I worked together with Kalle Kormann as the designer.

kind: commercial work