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Linky Update – Two projects and some ego press

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Birthday Cats

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A song / video produced for JibJab by me and Dave. This is the second version (they hated the first version), and I thought up the rough idea for the video in Old Street tube station 1hr before the first Sickipedia night. I was waving my fingers around going, “it could be like this!”. For the actual production Dave drew some lovely kittens, we stuck them to his hands and I tried to keep the camera still so I’d be able to edit it together. BTW: My favourite line in this is “Happy Birthday, it’s catty purrday!” which comes from a joke I have with my 4 year old son about giving our cat Rocky a birthday.

Watch ‘Birthday Cats’


Alien at the Bottom of the Garden

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To support a Channel 4 TV program Generation XXL – about overweight children – C4 asked me to produce a tamagotchi style game on didn’t mock the subject matter. A pretty difficult brief for me so I dragged in Matt Round and it was his brilliant insight that making the main character an alien would solve many of the problems. Well done Matt!

Play ‘Alien at the Bottom of the Garden’


Ego press – not sure why but there was a tiny flurry of mentions of B3ta and myself in the press at the end of 2009.

Keith meets Keith and I Spot Credit Crunch

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Recently did the break bumpers (bits played before the ad breaks) for C4 documentary Keith meets Keith where Keith Allen (dad of Lily as now any mention of him in the the press is legally obliged to mention) met booze enthusiast and TV chef Keith Floyd.

Poor old Floyd died an hour before transmission, which alarmed me as I briefly wondered if he’d got into such a rage over my slightly piss-takey titles that he’d keeled over and it was all my fault. But no, the producer assures me that Floyd watched a preview DVD a week before and had given it the thumbs up.

For background research I read David Pritchard’s Shooting the Cook – which in a happy bit of luck was laying on my desk after a visit to an old school friend who works for the publisher “I think you’ll enjoy this Rob.” I did.

I Spot Credit Crunch

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Another I Spot book produced by me and Dave Stevenson for E4. We enjoyed writing the jokes for this – hope you like it.

Read it on the E4 site.

Stuff I’ve worked on recently, linky round up

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

I wrote a big long write up of all these projects – with screen grabs and photos and managed to delete it. I can’t be arsed to write it all again – so here it is just with links.

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I’ve produced a lot of games for E4 this year, the following seven links are for them, developed with different and dreadfully clever people I’ve found from running B3ta.

Janey Thomson’s Marathon – A joke about those waggle games from the 80s – developed by the brilliant Matt Round.

Captcha Invaders – As above, developed by Matt Round.

Rather Difficult Game, another developed by Matt Round.

Name That Copyright Free Tune – developed by NTC INC. Who is actually a bloke who doesn’t like using his name online.

Do Yo Knowz Yo Showz – as above.

Ready Meals Quiz – developed by Monkeon.

Taglinr – devleoped by ME and Mike Trinder. Woo hoo

And finally…

What I missed about meat – written for The Guardian. Was the 3rd most read item for 7 days for the foody section. It’s lonely at the top.