Portfolio of Tim Stone | Interactive Media Producer

A screenshot of the game I helped develop, Ray.

A screenshot of my mini-portfolio developed for university.

A screenshot of the site for my collaborative summer project, Puppet Love.

Critter

Critter is my Graduate Project for Bournemouth University. It converts the text in tweets into little monsters. The output of the Critters uses Canvas to animate them. This project has introduced me to many new technologies with fairly steep learning curves that I have grasped quickly.

Details:

Back-end built with Ruby (Ramaze, Unicorn)
Front-end relies on EaselJS, Backbone, jQuery
Custom REST API
First time using nginx as a web server

Schedlr

Schedlr is an iOS app that displays information about Ars Electronica events and allows you to optimise your time there by building a customised itinerary. It was built over 4 weeks from conception to realisation and introduced me to coding in Xcode and mobile application development.

Details:

Built with Sencha Touch
Followed JavaScript best practices and the MVC pattern
HTML5 & Sass, JavaScript & JSON
Web Storage API for saving events
First proper open-source project
Received a 2:1

View-Master

We were asked to rebrand an 80s product for the present and create a viral game alongside a website to promote that product. In a team of 4 we built an immersive 2.5D space adventure showcasing our re-designed View-Master. I also blogged about the experience.

Details:

Built with Unity, Cinema 4D and Maya
HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript & jQuery for site
Facebook integration
Seeded through Facebook, Twitter and Kongregate
Received a First

Mini-Portfolio

This site housed my projects from the last term. The brief was that it should be 'HTML5'; as I've been doing this for the last year I thought I'd also introduce object-oriented CSS3 and a sprinkling of jQuery.

Details:

Front-end design
Object-oriented CSS3
JavaScript & jQuery
Valid, semantic HTML5
Web fonts
Received a First

mixcd

mixcd is a community of people that swap mix cds on reddit. I redesigned the site that they use to share and obtain information from their users; it is used by over 2,000 people.

Details:

Front-end design
Responsive CSS
Integrating design into existing site
Standardising markup
UX/UI
Usability

Lyrix

Lyrix was borne from our PHP brief, simply to design a site that uses PHP in some way. You type in a lyric and get to see others. It also generates lyrics from the submitted tags.

Details:

PHP
AJAX using jQuery
HTML5 & CSS3
PHP Form validation
Last.fm API for autosuggesting
XML parsing
REST principles
Received a First

Breeze

A week to build a simple video game. This was the brief that resulted in Breeze. It's built in Unity and the coding side is mostly JavaScript. It was a very steep learning curve but I love the result and it is one of the projects I'm most proud of.

Details:

Learnt Unity within 2 weeks
JavaScript
3D game
Working with animations
Open-sourced
Received a First

Puppet Love

This was a university project. I teamed up with 3 TV students, 3 Scriptwriters and 3 Interactive Media Producers to create this contemporary, cross-platform drama. It was presented in front of 2 BBC representatives.

Details:

Login system
RSS feed
Contact form
Drag-and-Drop game
Commenting
iPhone layout and functionality
Video encoding
Received a First

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