Aaron Smith

Ozgood is a hilariously funny puppet - he's like Talking Tom, but he chugs beer! There're about 70 different interactions, tons of beer drinking, burger eating, teeth brushing fun. Apptitude was commissioned to build Ozgood for Runwilder Entertainment. It took about two months to build with additional time for the last 10% of polish.

I was responsible for the core architecture, sequencing logic, web services, video capturing, parts of the audio recording, web services, sharing logic, beer sending logic, and quite a few other things.

When Apptitude handed off the application to Runwilder, they continued to modify and make updates. About 75% of what's currently in the app was written by Apptitude.

Tech: C, Objective-C, C++, FMOD, Facebook, In-App Purchases, Python, Google App Engine

Client: Runwilder Entertainment

Lego Duplo Jams is an experience for 2-5 year olds. Commissioned by Pereira & O'Dell we helped define the project experience, artwork, and build it. I was responsible for a couple scenes in the game, and native audio library integration.

Tech: Unity, Objective-C, C, Java, iOS, Android, Native Audio Recording

Client: Pereira & O'Dell

-> Half Brain Game

Commissioned by Swirl we built a creative brain teaser game called Half-Brain for half.com (Ebay). Swirl provided artwork, we built the Flash based game and did Facebook integration. I was responsible for user scores, web services, and the Guttershark configuration.

Tech: Flash, Actionscript 3, Guttershark, Facebook Graph API

Client: Swirl

Graff City is a virtual spray paint application with tons of features! Use the phone as a physical spray can, change brushes, change colors, save your work for all to see!

Graff City was built for McCann Erickson and MRM Worldwide. I was responsible for most of the iOS Application, as well as all of the web services on Rackspace.

Tech: C, Objective-C, C++, Python, Nginx, Tornado, FAPWS, Rackspace, Linux Administration (Centos), Monit

Client: McCann Erickson

Deadsqaure was built for a friend with a funny idea: Foursquare but where you're dead instead.

Tech: C, Objective-C, C++, Graph API, Tumblr API, Twitter API

Client: Michael Bettendorf

Commissioned by our friends at Division of Labor. They wanted an interactive holiday card that was different. They came to use with the idea and assets ready to go so we produced the iOS Application, and a PHP Web Admin page.

Tech: C, Objective-C, C++, PHP

Client: Division of Labor

The classic 4x4 slide puzzle for iPhone / iPad. In addition to the game it is a way to exercise and showcase the Say Media Mobile Ad SDK (below), as well as a way for the Say Media Sales Team to showcase ads and content to potential clients.

There were two versions of this app, the first version was iPhone only - I re-wrote the application entirely to support iPad and both orientations.

Tech: C, Objective-C

The Say Media Ad SDK is an SDK for iOS that 3rd party developers use to display Say Media Ads in their application. I was responsible for writing the SDK, maintenance and releases.

In the above "demos" link you can look at the mobile section to watch videos of the SDK in action.

Tech: C, Objective-C, Javascript, HTML5, SCRUM

Burger King brought back the Western Whopper for a limited time, encouraging people to bring out their inner cowboy. Petmoustache.com let users upload pictures of themselves and grow a moustache. If users didn't want just a typical 'stache, the site allowed them to comb, wax, curl, clip and shave styles for their moustache.

I was responsible for AMFPHP service integration, initial Flash build with basic view switching, debugging.

Tech: Flash, Actionscript 3, PHP, AMFPHP

Client: Burger King

-> Miller Lite Manlaws

Manlaws was a Flash website I helped develop for the Miller Lite Manlaws ad campaign. It was full of hilarity and interesting to work on.

Tech: Flash, ASP, IIS

-> Volkswagen Carfessional

Part of the VW Garage Events was the Volkswagen Carfessional. This State of the art Rabbit was retrofitted with an interactive video recording system. Our hope was the folks at all of these events may have an opinion or two on the Volkswagen brand, and we needed to listen to what these caring individuals had to say. Our Cognitive anthropologist Dr. Keller whimsically guided you through the ride, prompting you and your friends to share with the car, confidentially Riders then received a photo in their email as a souvenir.

Tech: Flash, Red5, PHP, MySQL

Client: Volkswagen

-> Musicland Graze

This application pre-dates iTunes and the iOS domination of the mobile industry. It was a physical kiosk placed at Sam Goody stores across the country for your midi browsing pleasure.

Content was downloaded onto each kiosk and updates were distributed by download with python. Downloaded content was cached locally for the user.

I was brought on to the project after a majority of it had already been built, I was a maintenance developer and bug fixer - the original developer moved onto other projects.

Tech: Flash, AMFPHP, Python, HP Touchscreen Kiosk

Client: Musicland (for Sam Goody stores)

-> Lumen Condominiums

Lumen is a condominium in Seattle, WA. MercuryCloud designed and developed the website for them. I was the flash developer.

Tech: Flash