Posted by Chris at 12:54 pm
Strike is a CDROM for Key Stages 3/4 and AS/A pupils studying the Tonypandy Riot of 1910 and the Penrhyn Quarry Strikes. Splinter together with Mair Education realised a product with specially selected items from the Archives, which involves young people and leads them to explore themes including notions of identity, protest and conflict.
Posted by Chris at 12:46 pm
DangerPoint is an award-winning interactive centre providing Personal, Community and Road Safety education to all parts of North Wales. Splinter produced a range of interactive learning materials covering diverse safety topics. These feature animation, video and a range of interactive functionality, delivered both in situ and online. We also designed extensive printed resources, powerpoints etc. with an illustration style very popular with the target audience.
One notable interactive we developed was Drive School, a driving simulator aimed at 15-18 year olds who are potential/newly qualified drivers and highlights the risks and consequences involved with dangerous driving. The driver has to negotiate a track featuring road hazards and other obstacles. The driver is constantly monitored to ensure road sense and handling is upheld at all times. The user is then penalised for speeding, wreckless driving or other offences.
Posted by Chris at 12:20 pm
World in one City is a Key stage 2 history title about the 800 year History of Liverpool and its communities. It includes flash animation, video, audio and html features.
The title was launched and distributed to schools in Liverpool as part of the lead up to Liverpool 2008 Capital of Culture celebrations. The CDROM is an interactive e-learning resource to support the KS2 History curriculum. The CD may be used as a classroom resource by the teacher, or alternatively it may be explored by the individual user.
North West Big Chip Digital Design Awards May 2007:
Best E-learning & Best Not-for-profit website project: Shortlisted.
Posted by Chris at 12:09 pm
Consolux is an established firm of mechanical and electrical consulting engineers with offices in London and Liverpool and over 25 years industry experience across a wide range of building engineering services. Splinter was invited to redesign their existing legacy website following a successful tender and competitive pitch in October 2007. We created a site that developed the brand, fitted the client’s technical requirements and which also featured a bespoke content management system for ease of client-updating.
Posted by Chris at 11:56 am
STL Technologies, based in Bury St Edmunds, produce IT solutions, with a particular focus on large public sector bespoke developments. They approached Splinter to develop a promotional campaign to be launched at the Crime Justice Management Conference in 2007.
The concept we developed focused on breaking the monopoly of a few suppliers which have a stranglehold on the market. We produced a range of materials including the following:
- Stand and exhibition materials
- Brochure, event business cards, flyer and invites
- Merchandise and giveaways
- Interactive game highlighting STL selling points – this was launched pre-event with all delegates sent an email invitation to participate online. It was also featured on the stand at the event itself.
Posted by Chris at 11:39 am
This CDROM based learning package is aimed at Community Health professionals in Gambia, and has been developed in partnership with the Centre of Innovation Against Malaria.
The unique feature of the product is the way users are given the choice of approaching the subject in four different learning styles. Therefore students who find text-based learning most appropriate may choose between an analytical or holistic route. Similarly, some students will learn better through viewing images. The tutor has the facility to track the routes that users take. This information will be invaluable in developing the most effective teaching methods in the future.
Posted by Chris at 11:32 am
Splinter were commissioned by the Museum of London to produce an interactive game for their website, called ‘Animal Breakout’. Aimed at children and families, the game is set in Sailortown in the London Docklands during the 1840’s. A group of animals have escaped from the Animal Emporium and the user has to undertake a range of games to find and return the animals. As well as developing the game, Splinter also produced all the in-game watercolour illustrations.
Posted by Chris at 11:10 am
Working alongside motion graphics house Sparkle Media, we have recently completed two moving image presentations that the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are displaying in their foyer.
The first presentation celebrates the organisation’s long history, and the characters that have been involved in its development. The second is a large scale HD animation project which promotes their national and international activities by bringing archive images to life.
Posted by Chris at 11:07 am
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council wanted to promote a series of events to be held over the summer of 2009. The events are to promote understanding between individuals of different ages across the borough.
Our solution was to produce a viral campaign based upon the premise that Knowsley has run out of tea. The 2 minute piece features a reporter from Boston News interviewing a range of Knowsley residents expressing their distress at the lack of their favourite brew.
The sequence was distributed on social networks, and has been supported by more traditional marketing channels.
Posted by Chris at 10:50 am
For the past 6 months Splinter have busily been developing the games for Conker Media’s multi-platform digital fiction event, The Well; created for BBC Switch.
The Well has aired on BBC Two, Saturdays 1.15 -1.25pm. Extending online where the audience can immerse themselves further in the story, exploring a spookily atmospheric recreation of the main drama location in a multi-level game. By engaging with The Well online through completing a series of tasks and challenges the audience can unlock hidden drama content which reveals the backstory to the TV drama.
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