Cyfle-D10-Rob Lloyd

Week Twenty
19th February - 23rd February 2007

This week I've been living it up at the Beeb on my work placement. Things started a little quiet for the first two days whilst the guys n gals decided what it is exactly that Nic and I should be allowed to get our hands on. Eventually we were given some, shock suprise and horror, Belonging work to do! This was actually a cool job to have as the show is due a brand spankin new series soon so it's great to be working on something that's relevant and important to the Beeb. Nic's been given a html quiz to code and design whilst I've been given the CSS of the site to sort out. This is a great learning experiecne for me and it's good to get to gribs with BBC standards and there iin house technolgies such as WIPS and there system of server side includes.

So far I've got some structure up and running, just a case now of implementing the lovely drop shadow magic that I've been landed with!

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Week Nineteen
12th February - 16th February 2007

It's that time again, Deadline week!

As it happens, it all turned out rosey. Orball (as its now known) as a fantastic piece of work and one we can all be proud to have been a part of. Kudos to Nic and Carol for making it look sexy as hell. Have a play!!!



It's been a pleasure working in this group, as it has been working with Nic on the two man brief. It was all a little last minute when it came to Kristi, but we delivered a good piece on time. Check it out!




Well its work experience at the good ol' Beeb for the next two weeks, so I'll let you know how that goes! Been a real pleasure, albeit a stressful one, working on these briefs!

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Week Eighteen
5th February - 9th February 2007

It's all getting crazy round here. And not just our game, which as it happens, does keep getting crazier and crazier too. Check out a recent test here.

Things are advancing well but its still very buggy and time is flying by. I have to admit that Kristi has been placed a little lower in priorities, but we're still confident of pulling off both briefs. Call us crazy but...

Incidently, after two straight defeats including humilation to Scotland, I feel a deep sense of loss and am frankly despairing at the inability to provide any beautiful tries. It may only be Rugby, but it makes grown men cry....

Well back to it!

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Week Seventeen
29th January-2nd February 2007

We're well into the swing of things now with both briefs. We've come up with a majorly crazy concept for a game involving JellyMan bouncing of pads to make that light up. Check out this preview!


So so far so good. We've split ourselves into two major camps. Designers and Developers. Nic and Carol on design, myself, Gareth and Tom on code.

The Kristy brief is coming along too. We've decided to make a small but pretty Flash microsite to complement the launch of Kristi's album. It'll contain some very pretty graphics (stand up Nic) and some cool little effects and gadgets to play with. Thats the plan anyway....

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