Snowdin
game development @ Colle+McVoy
Snowdin is a self-promotional holiday site for Colle+McVoy. The team created a world with cool little arcade games, downloads, etc that was built in anoglyph 3d. The qBert game development was my contribution along with engineering the solution to the 3d effect. Because of the nature of the project I had to make the game very flexible for change so I created the game in a way where each level can be customized along with enemies which variations of artifical intelligence. This site won a FWA Site of the Day award.
Yearbook Yourself
app development @ Colle+McVoy
The Yearbook Yourself micro-site was created for a back to school promotion for Taubman Malls where the visitor could upload their photo and see a composite of what they would have looked like in different eras. I was the lead developer on this site two years in a row and it has won a total of three Webby Awards. At most, it had 450,000 visitors a day and over 13 million visitors a year for the past two years.
Yahoo - Emoticarolers
app development @ Colle+McVoy
Colle+McVoy created a "text to song" application for Yahoo where a user could type in personalized lyrics for a selected holiday song, pick four voices, and hear their lyrics sung back to them. Once completed, the user can easily share their customized song with their friends and family. I was the lead front end developer for this project.
Atmosphere - Paint It Gold
app development @ Colle+McVoy
My role for this project was to put together two flash components. The first is a painting application where a screenshot of the desired website is pulled into a window to be tagged. The second component is an AS3 mp3 player built from scratch utilizing the (at the time) new "ComputeSpectrum" class in flash analyzing the different levels of the sound and creating a visualizer of the sound based on the sound spectrum levels.
Manhattan Toys - Groovy Girls
app development @ Colle+McVoy
This fun micro-site was created for a collaboration between Groovy Girls and the Girl Scouts of America. It's an educational site targeted towards young girls giving them tips on how to camp. The user explores different environments by playing games and learning things about the outdoors. As they explore they earn badges and, if enough badges are earned, they are rewarded with fun little downloads and prizes.
Colle + McVoy - Squawq
app development @ Colle+McVoy
This was probably one of the most innovative and exciting projects I've been a part of. Squawq is a real-time Twitter analytics utility that helps keep track of keywords and allows users to watch any keyword/trend of their choosing. The entire project was created internally at Colle+McVoy by the creative/development department and has not only earned a number of awards, but has also earned Colle+McVoy a significant amount of credibility for creating and executing such a tool.
Take Me Fishing - Kids Games
game development @ Colle+McVoy
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to create a handful of childrens games for takemefishing.org in the "little lunkers" section of the website. The games consisted of an arcade style led style fishing game, a memory game, a "create your own fish" app along with an educational "name the fish" game. The games were a nice enhancement to the site to appeal to a wider demographic.
Caribou Coffee - Amy's Blend Microsite
app development @ Colle+McVoy
I had a wonderful opportunity to create a little microsite for Caribou Coffee's Amy's Blend. In the site experience, a user would be able to pay tribute to a woman in their lives who was effected by breast cancer by planting a virtual tulip representing them along with telling a short story honoring them. The virtual tulip would appear in a tulip "visualization" of other tulips with inspiring stories.
Johnson and Johnson - The Vision Care institute
app development @ Colle+McVoy
Johnson + Johnson’s Vision Care institute needed an expandable application component for the main page of their website. This dynamic application enabled the user to update profile information, view programs and education offered by the institute along with presenting testimonials. This component was built in a way where the client could easily update content, add sections and change language based on location.
Kiehls - Express My Pow
app development @ Colle+McVoy
Kiehl’s worked with Colle+McVoy to create a "Comic Book Yourself" application in the style of Roy Lichtenstein to promote their damage-repairing “ACAI” product line. This microsite enables the user to create a single or multi-frame comic where the user can customize their own comic by changing colors, styles and writing their own story. They can easily save out their comic along with integrating their creation with Facebook and Twitter.
Manhattan Toys - Puzzibits
app development @ Colle+McVoy
This is a really creative, fun self-promotional site for Manhattan Toy’s product Puzzibits.
Taubman Malls - Holiday Gift Finder
app development @ Colle+McVoy
The Taubman Slowglobe is a mini gift-finder application where a user could answer a number of questions a friend or family member who they are shopping for and run a query to give gift recommendations based on the answers to the questions. The Snowglobe application is expandable via XML to accommodate twenty different malls with different combinations of products and stores where the client could customize the parameters for the results of each product based on the unique mall.
Free Arts Minnesota - Art is a Gift
app development @ Colle+McVoy
Art is a Gift is a site created for Free Arts Minnesota where viewers could customize their own baby qee (character) within this web application and submit it to a gallery. They could choose from one of five character types, colorize them and manipulate them to create their own. They could submit their creation to a gallery to view their creation along with other Qee’s that people have created.
Croplan Genetics - Agrigenius
app development @ Colle+McVoy
Agrigenius is a sweepstakes game created for Croplan Genetics where people from the sales force plays through the game answering a number of questions in different categories. If they score a certain percentage they are able to register for a grand prize. This app was created in a way where it has been continuously reused for different divisions and has been released in a number of iterations by simply continuing to use the core application while modifying the content via xml.
About
Andrew Charon has been working professionally in the area of web development, design, and marketing since 1996 and has worked with a large number of clients in a wide range of industries. Currently, Andrew is a full time contractor at General Mills with the focus on creative software development, user experience, design and interactive strategy. Previously, Andrew was employed at the Minneapolis based agency Colle+McVoy as a Sr. Creative Developer and was a significant part of the agencies transformation from a traditional to a highly interactive focused agency and, while there, lead many award winning projects for clients such as Yahoo!, Johnson and Johnson, Taubman Malls, Manhattan Toys, Kiehls and Rhymsayers Entertainment . With an undergraduate degree in fine art, Andrew is continuing his education at the University of St Thomas masters program in Software Engineering and Information Systems. Andrew enjoys spending time with his family, long bike rides, around Minneapolis, soccer and listening to and composing his own music. When he's not developing games for his clients or his children, he's…sigh…still developing games.
Clients
Clients include Yahoo!, Taubman Malls, Johnson and Johnson, Rhymesayers Entertainment, Manhattan Toys, Medtronic, ShopNBC, Kiehls, TakeMeFishing.org, CaseIH, Free Arts Minnesota, Mitsubishi, Harley Davidson, Colle+McVoy ConnAgra, Augsburg Fortress, Paridigm Publishing, 3M, Best Buy, Bank One, Breathe Right, Aveda, Best Buy, Minnesota Lottery, People For Bikes, and Caribou Coffee.
General Mills brands include Gogurt, Yoplait, Bisquick, Every Day Saver, Fiber One, Green Giant, Haagen Dazs, Honey Nut Cheerios, Nature Valley, Progresso, Totinos, and Wheaties.
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