Author Archives: Mark

Fanta playing Save the Source

Fanta drink “Saving the Source” combines storytelling and gaming to create a long-form playable HTML5 graphic novel. Games and Easter eggs are woven into the game that can be played on any device. It’s kinda fun but heavy loading. Not sure I have the time for heavy loading sites that deliver such simple games and return. What do you think? Read more…

BA Ticket Giveaway SIM

A full-fledged flight simulator available to Victoria St commuters, offering the opportunity to win a trip to seven sunny locations by landing a Boeing 777 correctly on an airport of that destination. Read more…

KLM – Claim Your Place in Space

A once-in-a-lifetime trip on the first commercial flight to space is being offered as a prize in a competition run by the airline KLM. KLM’s competition offers a place on a Space Expedition Corporation Lynx spaceship, with room for one passenger and one astronaut, launching from Curacao in the Dutch Caribbean. It claims it will be the first commercial flight to space, departing on January 1, 2014 and lasting approximately an hour, with tickets normally costing $95,000.

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Magnum Pleasure Hunt 3

So I first received an authentic ransom letter (with individually cut out letters = painstaking!!) that directed me to a site where a dude gets kidnapped. In order for you to release him from his captors you must go through a series of games and collect all the ingredients of the new Magnum ice-cream. This is the sequel to the award-winning Magnum Pleasure Hunt Across the Internet 1 & 2. Ohh and the games work just lovely on your phone as built in HTML5. Agency is Lowe Brindfors in Sweden. Read more…

Javascript and Google Streetview

Cool use of some javascript and google street view. Just watch this magic. Read more…

Adidas Team Messi

Another site that is using facebook connect to put you in the site. Adidas want you to join team Messi and keep the game beautiful. An interactive pledge with personal story-lines, easter eggs, and the ability to control projection mapped 3D screens. Read more…

Renault Clio Va Va Voom

More stunts. Watch as an unsuspecting guy and a girl take the new Renault Clio out for a test drive with extra VA VA VOOM! One thing is for sure, they’ll never forget the first time they saw the New Renault Clio. They were both released onto youtube at the same time. Interesting to note the one with sexy girls in it has nearly 2.5 million views and the one with sexy guys has only 500,000 views. What does that say??? Read more…

Ordinary Japanese as Superheros

Cool trend happening in Japan… Ordinary school kids acting out superhero actions in still images. So much better than ‘milking’. Read more…

Peanut Gallery Chrome Experiment

From the dudes at Google Creative Labs comes Peanut Gallery, a web experiment that lets you create and share silent film clips by using voice recognition to create title cards. It’s built entirely in HTML5 and uses the new Web Speech API. Read more…

Roadtrip Forever

Roadtrip Forever, is a personalised experience for you and your best friend where nothing is off limits. Using facebook integration it’s the trusted method to make the experience seem personal to you, using your name, images etc. Unexpected ending. Take supplies, take friends and take the trip.

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