Made of Everything You're Not

Start Date: August, 2008
URL: offline;
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0

Purpose:
Build a community to promote the Ubisoft title EndWar.

Challenges:
Communication and collaboration. This was the first project with Ubisoft and a new web producer so getting used to how both worked was interesting. I learned alot from both parties.

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Missions

Homepage

Start Date: May, 2007
URL: offline; contact for access
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0

Purpose:
Build a community to promote the Activision title Call of Duty 4.

Challenges:
This site was to be a social network style community site with all the bells and whistles that required; invite system, friend framework and challenge management. To give you an idea of scale the project started out with a single web/db server combo and ended up with 8 web servers and 3 database servers.

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Age Gate

Homepage

Top Members

Start Date: April, 2008
URL: http://www.kungfupandagame.com
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0

Purpose:
Promote and drive interest in the upcoming Activision game Kung Fu Panda.

Challenges:
This project was a flash based client side with a php backend website. The client side needed to be localized for an unknown amount of languages (we weren’t told until and include a mini-game, in-depth tracking and be XML driven. The biggest challenge, though, was that the client needed a system to assign editing status to a particular moderator with each moderator being able to edit multiple languages.

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Language Select

About the Game

Videos

Apparently, you can check your balance, your usage and pay your wireless bill from your phone if you have AT&T.

Dial and send the following:

*BAL# to check your balance
*MIN# for minutes remaining
*DATA# for data remaining
*PAY to pay your bill

I’ll post more as I discover them. View the “Official” page.

Date: January, 2007
URL: http://gameoftheyear.callofduty.com
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0

Purpose:
Allow users to enter in a “keycode” and get an Xbox360 download token code in return. The token code was used to download the Variety Map Pack for Call of Duty 4.

Challenges:
The client needed to know which token code was redeemed by which keycode so this project required special attention to how the keycodes were being redeemed. Additionally, a robust reporting tool was required to display which keycode was used, at which time, and from which organization the keycode came from.

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Homepage

Date: April, 2008
URL: http://www.thecliquemovie.com/
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0, ImageMagick

Purpose:
Community for the kids interested in the upcoming Clique movie.

Challenges:
This was an interesting project because, once again, we didn’t have direct contact with the client. We dealt with a third party on all change orders so this affected delivery time lines dramatically. It would sometimes take weeks between hearing about a proposed change for it to be officially requested so there was a whole log of “hurry up and wait”.

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Home

Banners & Icons

Date: January, 2007
URL: http://www.i-am-immune.com
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0, ImageMagick

Purpose:
Official community for the I Am Legend movie.

Challenges:
There really wasn’t too many things outside the box for this site. The biggest challenge would have to be the expected load. We needed another load balancer and 3 web servers with 1 database server.

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I Am Legend Homepage

Register for I Am Legend Community

Date: June, 2008
URL: http://www.velvethammer.net
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0, ImageMagick

Purpose:
Create a hybrid between a community site and their existing brochure site.

Challenges:
Since they already had their existing design, and were adamant that we shouldn’t change a thing, the Creative team’s hands were tied.

We also had to write 4 new modules to make managing the bands, releases, tours and demo submission areas easy.

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Home

Community Home

Date: January, 2007
URL: http://www.titleguaranteebuilding.com (offline)
Technology: php5, MySQL 5.0, Flash 8

Purpose:
Simple brochure site to showcase the highlights of the real estate.

Challenges:
This was a very straightforward project. I didn’t work with the client directly but through the designer who was hired to create the print media.

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Date: December, 2006
URL: http://www.selektstore.com/

Purpose:
Build an online store for selling both physical and digital products.

Challenges:
The client was very involved in the design of the site and had very clear ideas of what they wanted to do. This made using an off the shelf program like Os Commerce or Cube Cart prohibitive; mainly because the clients requirements would have meant modifying HUGE portions of the code so upgrades would have been nearly impossible.

Instead I opted for using my custom library and add additional modules into the core. This included a product manager, online payment processing and shopping cart system. The payment processing is set to use Authorize.net and Paypal.

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