Go and have a look at an early version of the first in a series of games I’ll be creating, DinkyBots. It may seem familiar to some old school gamers 😉 but requires Flash for now. So I’ve provided a download of Firefox Portable with Flash for Windows.
Here’s an example app which uses React Query to add the superpowers of caching, debouncing, and automatic cancellation/retries to a simple fetch-based React app. The source is available here – it’s all TypeScript and includes some E2E tests.
Back in 2002 some colleagues and I built one of the web’s first and most popular online multi-user Flash games, Dinky Bomb.
The game grew out of a proof of concept prototype I created, obviously inspired by Team 17’s game Worms. I wanted to create something simple to learn and playable, even on old modem internet connections. Continue reading Dinky Bomb – multiplayer game
I recently started working for Simplestream creating their next generation TV UIs. Simplestream provide TV solutions for just about every Connected TV or Set Top Box device you can think of – including a turnkey solution for ingest, encoding and management of monetisation models.
Creating OTT apps for HbbTV / Smart TV and Set Top Box devices, using JavaScript / TypeScript / BBC TAL / React / Preact. Responsible for developing and maintaining the Hybrid TV product, coordinating software releases, balancing requests across over a dozen clients, coordinating with QA, optimising UX, ensuring a stable and performant UI from a single code base across hundreds of big screen devices from Freeview, Freely, Freesat, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, YouView, Hisense VIDAA, Liberty Global Horizon, etc.
