Terralever Silverlight 1.0 game on Miniclip.com

February 4, 2008 at 10:21 am · Filed under Games

Last year Terralever took on the challenge of creating a game with Silverlight. In doing so, our overall goal was to release something compelling that coincided with Silverlight’s public coming-out party; establishing that casual gaming was a viable usage of the Silverlight platform. That game was called Zero Gravity, and it received a warm welcome from both casual gamers and the development community.

Zombomatic Swap the conductors to connect them into a path for the electricity to flow.

Play this free game now!!

A few months ago Terralever was again approached with a Silverlight game design and developement challenge: Create a casual/twitch game for Miniclip.com utilizing Silverlight 1.0. To be clear, Silverlight has evolved. The Silverlight team has released a more advanced Silverlight plug-in which allows far more flexibility in development. That said, Miniclip wasn’t looking to leverage that version of the plug-in. The game would need to be built with for the 1.0 plug-in.

Leveraging lessons learned from Zero Gravity, a team of Terralever designers, developers, and multimedia artists produced Zombomatic 3000, an addicting puzzle game. The game was created under an incredible time constraint, but the team wasn’t willing to push the game out until they were fully satisfied with the overall user experience.

 I did not have much involvement in this project, and have to say I was surprised (in a good way) at the resulting game. The extra effort the entire team put into “getting it right” shows. Zombomatic serves as a confident marker in the casual gaming space as the first Silverlight game to appear on Miniclip.com, one of the world’s largest causal gaming web sites.

Congratulations to The Terralever Zombomatic 3000 team (alphabetical order):

• Craig Budwitz
• Chris Hill
• April Holle
• Jen Johnson
• Robert Neal
• Joel Neubeck
• Shannon Owen
• Ryan Plemons
• Casey Rayl

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How to get feedback on your Facebook App

October 25, 2007 at 2:59 pm · Filed under Web Applications, Events, Online Marketing, Programming

Do you have a Facebook application you are working on?  Do you have something compelling to say about Facebook development? Want some feedback? There is a soap box waiting for you.

I briefly blogged about the Facebook Developer Garage Phoenix a ways back (it’s coming up on November 14th). One of the traditions of the Facebook Developer Garage is to open up the mic for anyone who is developing or conceptualizing a Facebook App who would like to get some feedback from the collection of Facebook minds at the Garage.

It’s a unique opportunity—it’s not often that you get have the ear of a group of Facebook App developers and marketers (including the likes of Dave Morin, an incredible mind from Facebook).

That mic is also open for those who would like to speak about Facebook applications from a marketing perspective, what’s happening with social networking, etc.

If you’re interested in speaking, let me know-I’ll put you in the right hands.

And, of course, if this sounds like something you’d like to experience come to the event!

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Facebook Developer’s Garage Phoenix

October 16, 2007 at 5:35 pm · Filed under Web Applications, Events, Programming

Terralever will be hosting the Phoenix Facebook Developer’s Garage Event on the 14th of November. Direct from the Facebook Developer Garage Wiki:

Attending or hosting a Facebook Developer Garage is an opportunity for a deep dive into Facebook Platform: it is a forum to share ideas with local developers, look for partners on your latest project, see and participate in Facebook App demonstrations, seek technical support, or just network and socialize with other developers interested in the Facebook Platform.

Are you a marketing professional looking to learn more about Facebook applications? You are also more than welcome at this event. While most of what you’ll read online about Facebook Developer Garage seems narrow-cast to developers, marketing professionals have become a fixture at these events. It just makes sense—there’s nowhere better to get a feel for what can be done on the Facebook platform (or find a developer for that matter).

Facebook Developer’s Garage - Phoenix

Location: Tempe Center for the Arts
Date/time: November 14th, 2007 - 6 to 9 pm
Guest Speakers: Dave Morin (Facebook), Nate Warner (Red Bull)

To learn more and RSVP for the event visit the Facebook Developer’s Garage Phoenix event and Group on Facebook.

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Live from Red Bull Flugtag Texas 2007

August 25, 2007 at 1:35 pm · Filed under Events

Flugtag’s first U.S. night flight in Austin! The Flick’r set below includes pictures of team crafts and the setup at Auditorium Shores. I’ll be posting more pictures throughout the day and night! If you’re coming to the event and need more information, visit the Red Bull Flugtag USA web site!

These Flugtag pictures are a few of a larger Flick’r set of Flugtag Texas 2007 pictures.

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XHTML/CSS - Get a job

July 27, 2007 at 2:22 pm · Filed under Programming, RIA, Information Architecture, Visual Design, User Interface, User Experience

Terralever is currently hiring for several positions at our Tempe, Arizona office.  Here’s the job posting that was added to our career’s section today:

Terralever is on the lookout for a passionate, creative, standards compliant front end architect. We’re not going to bore you with the regular “must know CSS, XHTML, yada, yada”.The right candidate yearns for new learning experiences and has an exquisite passion and drive to be on the bleeding edge of technological revolutions. This candidate will have validation in life through amazing work and the W3C, a pixel-perfect attention to detail, an insatiable desire to be creative, and an ownership to their work that it’s the best. And a rockin’ iPod playlist doesn’t hurt.Terralever is located on Mill Avenue in the heart of downtown Tempe, offering our employees a hip, creative atmosphere. We have a team centric work environment which allows our staff to interact with all aspects of a project. We have amazing award-winning work for national brands, but we pride ourselves more for the extraordinary group of people that make it possible.If this sounds like you and a company you’d like to work for e-mail jobs@terralever.com with your resume and some sweet samples. 

The original posting is located on the careers section on the Terralever web site along with additional job postings for the roles of Senior Interactive Designer, Flash Production Artist, Senior Interactive (Flash) Developer, Interactive Project Manager, and .NET Web Applications Developer.We’re also always looking for best-of-breed candidates in search marketing (SEO and PPC) and viral marketing.

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