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Climatlantic

Chris — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:26:24 +0000

Commissioned by Merseytravel www.climatlantic.co.uk is a fun and easy to use website for Primary and Secondary schoolchildren, teachers, parents and guardians. The website and games promote carbon reduction activity and environmental awareness, such as turning off lights, using public transport or planting a tree.

Climatlantic is a partnership of European countries: Ireland, UK, Portugal, Spain and France, located along the Atlantic coastline and working together to reduce their collective carbon footprints. Visitors to the website’s homepage are invited to make a pledge and help save the planet. After pledging you/schools are automatically sent advice to help fulfill that pledge.

The multi-lingual website has been designed with help from Holy Spirit School in Merseyside and Connah’s Quay High school in Flintshire. The children choose the colourful funky style of the website, the cool animal characters, including their names and also helped develop the game concepts. Climatlantic’s eco-guides are called Ollie the orangutan, Ula the parrot and Roofus the polar bear and appear throughout the site and games. Thanks to the fabulous illustrator Tracy who helped bring the children’s ideas to life.

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the Bluecoat website

Chris — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:14:31 +0000

We have developed a new website for the country’s oldest arts centre, the Bluecoat. The launch co-incided with the streaming of its popular Bed-In project, which draws on John Lennon’s actions for peace.

For those who don’t know… the Bluecoat is a restored historic building in the centre of Liverpool and its community mixes artists of all types and encourages connections between audiences, participants and artists. It uses its spaces to display talent from all creative disciplines, including visual art, music, literature, dance, and live art.

The site we have produced is clean and practical, allowing viewers to personalise the way content is displayed when they first arrive. It features a wide range of media and functionality including an in-depth events listing, online ticket booking, blogs and forums, panoramic views of the galleries and historic buildings, showcases for the creative community and of course the Bed-In stream.

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Clued Up On Enviro Crime

Chris — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:19:12 +0000

Following on from the award winning Clued up in Hull children and young people’s website, Splinter were asked to design and produce an additional game to add to the ’13 and over’ section of the site. The game was made primarily to inform young people on the various forms of environment related crime that Hull City Council sees as a problem.

It’s split into four mini-games, each dealing with a type of crime, including fly tipping, littering, graffiti and dog fouling. Play the game here.

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Clued Up On Homelessness

Chris — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:51:41 +0000

Following on from the award winning Clued up in Hull children and young people’s website, Splinter were asked to design and produce an additional game to add to the ’13 and over’ section of the site. The game was made primarily to inform young people about the issues surrounding homelessness and to educate them on the best choices to make when attempting to get a job and pay rent.

There are three different characters in the game, each facing a different challenge – from budgeting for how to live alone, the best choice when moving away from parents or the best methods for job hunting. Play the game here.

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Confex Augmented Reality

Jon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:33:28 +0000

Splinter were recently asked to produce an interactive display for ACC Liverpool‘s stand at Confex, an international event which brings together the world’s top event organisers. To stand out as an exhibitor ACC were keen to have an augmented reality interactive display to wow their visitors.

What is Augmented Reality? – An Augmented Reality application is one which combines real world footage with virtual on-screen graphics in real time. It gives the user the ability to manipulate what’s on screen with something as simple as the movement of their hand.

Making use of ACC’s new branding elements we came up with an interactive experience where visitors could hold up their visitor card to the screen and interact with the graphics on screen to see if they had won one of the available prizes.

The display was a huge success with the Confex crowd, and drew a lot of interest from the press, thus helping promote ACC as a brand even more. You can see the application in action in the video below.

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WipEout Fury

Jon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:20:08 +0000

With the PS3 release of the Fury expansion pack for WipEout HD, Sony asked Splinter to create a re-skinned ‘corrupted’ version of the WipEout HD site. Featuring the new black and red colour scheme, Splinter were able to replicate a number of the in-game distortion effects and transitions to keep the site in line with the branding for the real game.

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ISBE Conference 2009

Chris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:20:26 +0000

ISBE commissioned Splinter to produce supporting materials for their annual conference held in Liverpool. These materials included:

270 page brochure / abstract directory
CDROM with additional resources
Event banners and other branded materials

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The Well

Chris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:19:15 +0000

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 aired on BBC Two on Saturday afternoons and extended online where the audience immerse themselves further in the story – exploring a spookily-atmospheric recreation of the main drama location in a multi-level game. By engaging in a series of tasks and challenges the audience unlock hidden drama content which reveals the backstory to the TV drama.

Are you good at mini-games? Do you think you can beat the hag? Then have a go at The Well game, over on the BBC site.

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Sounds Good

Chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:27:42 +0000

Splinter were asked to develop a pack called ‘Sounds Good’ in which students are required to create an imaginary band. The student then ‘manages’ the band during its development, and on to ultimate success and an awards ceremony. Literacy and numeracy activities are inter-woven throughout the pack and the learning experiences of the student.

The clients were particularly interested in our ability to provide educational digital solutions that complement printed materials. These included:
• Learning materials for training courses and subsequent materials
• ‘Top Trump’ cards to support interactive learning
• CD support materials
• Activity sheets
• Interactive multimedia solutions

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Strike CDROM

Chris — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:54:26 +0000

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.

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