POKE Orange: Balloonacy A multi-player online game consisting of a "balloon race" between tens of thousands of competitors, taking place across a virtual map overlaid onto thousands of public websites. I worked closely on the development of the original idea into a practical, deliverable campaign, envisaged the technology approach from the start, and
POKE Orange: Unlimited The idea behind Unlimited was to create a never-ending web page with a huge variety of entertainment pieces. As tech director I took this basic idea and organised the tech team in creating a reliable mechanism whereby a large number of visitors could scroll seemingly endlessly down the page, viewing
POKE Orange: Spot the Bull An online game in which POKE attached a GPS locator device to a bull in a field, created an online representation of the bull and its travels through the field over time, supporting a game mechanic by which users guessed the bull's likely location at a particular time, with the
POKE Yahoo!: House Price Centre Yahoo! asked POKE to create a web app showcasing their newly-licensed Land Registry historical household sale data. We made a dynamic, data-driven visual heat-map of house prices and trends, building the HTML & Flash front-end in-house, and working with a technology partner to create the Perl/PostgreSQL back-end. Four million
