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Friday, April 18th, 2008Create a London scene and enter the competition with this little webtoy.
Create a London scene and enter the competition with this little webtoy.
Use your mouse to design Isabel Bookbinder a fashionable outfit. You can save it into a gallery for all to see too. Click “outfit designer” to get started.
Dressup toys aren’t the most exciting of things for developers to build. It’s basically a drag+drop mechanism, and a bunch of graphics. That’s normally it. In this case however, I decided to add a little sparkle to the way things moved on screen by integrating my AS2 physics engine into the clothing. When you scroll the wardrobe, the items all dangle and sway in a satisfying manner. Hangers without clothing will rock about considerably more, and items will dangle from the mouse rather than just sticking firmly. It all adds a level of tactility that isn’t present in most dressup games.
Use your mouse to drag the shapes into place. Rebuild the railway track, and Thomas the Tank Engine can take the children safely to the play area.
This simple kids game was created in about a day for Drayton Manor.
I created a couple of programmatic animations for the Griffith Park sparkling rose wine website. Most notably, the organic looking growing vines on the left and right of the screen. These are animated via the drawing API rather than on a timeline, and the motion appears more organic because of this.