Company: Fuel Industries
Client: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Type: Interactive Game, Installation

I was one of 4 Flash developers on this interactive billboard game installed in Times Square. Pedestrians on the street use their cell phone as a controller, to navigate their avatar across a busy NYC intersection “frogger” style. The game can be played with one or two players.

I developed an initial click through of the game.

April 2009 View Site »

Company: Fuel Industries
Client: Eidos
Type: Interactive Website

I was the principle Flash developer on BombshellBeauties.com. This website allows users to select from two wartime pinup models, and capture them in perfect poses. Video can be played in forward and reverse, and zoomed in and zoomed out frame by frame. Once the user is happy with their stills, they can create their own pinup nose art using Flash based photo-editing tools. Papervision3D and AS3dMod open source libraries were used to wrap the resulting nose art onto the side of one of four WWII planes that the user selects. The end result is a post card that can be saved as wallpaper or shared with others.

Company: Fuel Industries
Client: Saatchi & Saatchi, General Mills
Type: Interactive Website

I was one of two Flash developers on HalfAMillionVille.com. This website allows users obtain a virtual plot of land and build structures from an allotted 500 blocks. Users can rotate their buildings 360 degrees, in an isometric view and select from a large variety of animated, odd shaped and regular cubes. Users can save and return to edit their buildings at a later time. To goal of the website is to illustrate to kids how big 500, 000 really is by encouraging them to use all 500, 000 blocks in a virtual world.

I was responsible for developing the builder and viewer.

November 2008 View Game »

Paper-Robo Game

Paper-Robo Game is Flash game. Jetfire has suffered major battle damage. Help him collect glue bottles for repairs, before his creator sends him to the recycling bin.

Company: Fuel Industries
Client: Fuel Industries, All Girl Arcade
Type: Interactive Game

I was the principle Flash developer on Cherry Blast featured on AllGirlArcade.com. It was the second AGA game to feature all four fairies: Lily, Violet, Rose and Sunflower. Blast the bugs with cherries while collecting falling fruit for points!

Company: Fuel Industries
Client: McDonald’s Europe
Type: Interactive Game

I was one of five Flash developers on FragilePlanet.eu. This website educates kids on the perils that endangered animals face through 8 casual Flash games. This website is available in 11 languages. I developed the Snow Leopard picture puzzle game.

I developed the Snow Leopard game.

phone – 416.786.5410

résumé

April 2008 View Site »

Paper-Robo

Paper-Robo is Flash application that allows users to design and build their own action figures. They are made from paper and have joints at the hips, knees, wrists and ankles.

This project is largely influenced by Kami-Robo, the brainchild of Tomohiro Yasui. Yasui started crafting paper robots in 1982, at age 11, because he couldn’t bear the thought of playing with his precious store-bought bots. So he used cardboard, scissors, wire, tape, and markers to construct his own durable automatons.

Others like paperrobots1999.com have followed in Yasui’s footsteps, creating intricate robots that can transform into vehicles.

Paper-Robo takes this concept of paper craft a step further, by allowing users to customize their own robots without the need of special software or predefined designs. Users can create, preview, print and save their designs using a standard web browser.

Paper-Robo cannot be bought in stores. The designs are a product of one’s imagination and have no commercial value. You have to make them yourself and each robot design is unique.

I have also have a degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Western Ontario, and three years experience working in a biotherapeutics lab specializing in Spinal Cord Injury research.

I own a ham radio and am a licensed amateur radio operator.

I can build interactive sites and games, perform surgery on rats and act as a radio command post when all lines of communication are down in states of national emergency.

My first real experience developing interactive multimedia came in 1992, where in grade 7, I built  really bad Hypercard games in our school’s Mac lab. In grade 9 I used dbase to catalogue my baseball cards and built circuits on to control robotic mice.

I’m currently a Flash Developer in Toronto, Ontario.

This Air application is an example of a marketing widget for the television show “The Colbert Report.” The application itself aggregates rss feeds about recent clips and upcoming guests, has a shout box for users to post comments, and uses video with alpha channels to simulate a green screen mashup.

The Green Screen Challenge Effects Console allows a user with little technical expertise to manipulate green screen video by:

The Air classes this application uses are:
flash.desktop.NativeDragManager;
This class manages drag and drop operations.

flash.events.NativeDragEvent;
This class manages drag and drop events. NATIVE_DRAG_ENTER is triggered whenever a file is dragged from the desktop over to the Air application. NATIVE_DRAG_DROP is triggered when a file is dropped onto the Air application.

flash.desktop.ClipboardFormats;
This class gets data about files from the clipboard. FILE_LIST_FORMAT is the format of the data from the clipboard and is used to check to see if the file being dragged is a FLV, as that’s the only file the Colbert Desktop application will play.

NOTE: url property of the file object is used instead of NativePath. NativePath will work on Windows but not on a MAC. Using the url property gives cross platform operability of this application.

Under application & installer settings for Air, the window style has been set to Custom Chrome (transparent). The reason why a transparent window was selected was because users typically aren’t going to have flv files sitting on their computer to create a custom background for the green screen mashup. A transparent window allows users to overlay the footage of Colbert over their default video players, allowing any video format to be using as a background.

The custom class this application uses is TweenLite, which is a compact tweening engine: http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3

Yours in Truth,

Sunil John

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