Code Vanilla – Digital Insight and Solutions

requirement: A simple, quirky, networked HTML5 game that reported high scores. With a leader display board with aggregated by country on the event’s giant screen.

Solution: We built the game using Impactjs due to its nifty level editor. The registration and score reporting elements were built using jQuery and jQuerymobile with a LAMP back end.  The leader board was built in Flash with custom AS3 classes.

Client quote: Another job well done by the friendly chaps at CodeVanilla. Now my two favourite jobs in the last 2 years have both been put together and programmed by you guys. Fantastic.

Requirements: SPD required a kiosk application
to run at a healthcare conference.
Skills used: Content.Head/Consultancy

Solution: The solution was built using our in-house publishing platform Content.Head. The pharma agency, using a web based interface was able to make iterative text and layout amends to key product information following client review. The agency also used Content.Head’s turn-key delivery tools to download the final app and distribute to on-site technicians.

Requirement: An electronic, media-rich, editable, learning document with questionnaire sections. All text needed to be language-localised by regional managers.

Skills used: Content.Head

Solution: The solution was built using our in-house publishing platform Content.Head. Content.Head allowed us to create media-rich documents using specially created templates. Collaborative web based editing allowed many editors to simultaneously prepare documents for local publishing.

Requirements: Synctracks, a brand new music production library required a Music Search and distribution site with e-commerce to enabled them to launch their offering.
Skills used: PHP/JQuery/Flex/AIR/Consultancy

Solution: Using Flex, we created a powerful admin site capable of handling the complex taxonomy of music keywording. The public facing site needed to leverage the power of keyword based searching without bewildering the user with options. Our Wünderbar built in HTML/CSS/JQuery allows a user to search for anything from anywhere.

www.synctracks.com

Requirements: Dyson wanted a retail kiosk for aiding customers choose the Dyson vacuum that best suited their needs.

Skills used: Flex / AS3 / Zinc / SQLite

Solution: We created a desktop application suitable for running on the embedded XP kiosk. A local SQLite database allowed useage logging as well as allowing each store to configure the product range available. A management screen also allowed logs to be exported for central collation.

Requirements: Transport for London wanted an engaging interactive stand at the London Cycle Show to promote the upcoming Cycle Superhighways.

Skills used: Director / Lingo / Electronics

Solution: Working with a colleague we created bespoke electronics that measured the speed of the rear wheel. These were fed into the application which controlled the playback of the video according to the users speed. The main content of the video, created by BOFC was an overlayed path of the Superhighway and the planned roadside improvements. Users could stop pedalling to pause the video to read in more detail or turn the handlebars to affect the view.

Requirements: Being one of the largest independent production-music libraries in the world, De Wolfe need to find new ways of distributing their product and interfacing with clients.

Skills used: Web / fixed media / technical mentoring

Solution: We have an on-going relationship with De Wolfe for over a decade. We provide both an overview of up and coming technology in the context of the production-music industry and how to deliver it. In the past this has included the creation of sample libraries on CD-ROM, portable hard drives as well as web based solutions.

Requirements: eBay wanted a proof of concept application built in ‘Second Life’ that registered Second Life avatars for eBay alerts from the real world.
Skills used: PHP / Web-services / LindenScript
Solution: After an evaluation of the capabilities of Scripting within the Second Life environment, the team built a separate web based server to interface instructions between Second Life and eBay.

Requirement: Create customisable presentations for high value b2b presentations, while retaining branding and key messages.

Skills used: Adobe Director, Flash Charting

Solution: Using Adobe Director we created a simple to use presentation application which retained high quality designs and branding.

Requirement: Requirement: Cost efficient prototyping of a series of new ‘train-driver display panels’ e.g. graphically represent new layout of driver instrument panels, speedometers, various dials etc
Skills used: Adobe Director
Solution: Using Adobe Director we created a unique application that synchronised video with new driver display layouts. Focus groups of drivers were then able to watch the simulation and comment on new designs in a realistic but ‘virtual’ environment.