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Rich Kid Smart Kid Web Site and CD
CashFlow Technologies (Phoenix, AZ)
Challenge:Rich Kid Smart Kid was written by Robert Kiyosaki to bring the Rich Dad Poor Dad message to parents and children. The Rich Kid Smart Kid Web Site must teach children basic financial management principals and most of all be fun to play. Additionally, the site had to allow teachers access to the CD-ROM version of CashFlow for Kids at School, a downloadable version of the CashFlow for Kids Board Game for classroom use.
Solution: Four interactive games for Four different age levels were designed to illustrate basic financial management concepts. A simple database backend was developed to both protect and distribute the CashFlow for Kids at School CD ROM download. Finally, auto-email statistics software, developed by RoganStreet, inform CashFlow Technologies personnel as to number of downloads and students playing the game as well as brief technographic and demographic information.
CashFlow for Kids at Home and at School CD-ROM
CashFlow Technologies (Phoenix, AZ)
Challenge:Create a fun and educational electronic version of the popular board game "CashFlow for Kids" by Robert Kiyosaki in a tight turnaround to make it available for the upcoming school year.
Solution:New cartoon characters that represent different types of investors and investment strategies were applied to the already proven board game layout to offer deep information and real-time feedback for kids as they make investment decisions. An automated online updater keeps the software up to date. An additional game was created for K-2 players that teaches money concepts with Bunnies and Carrots.
instantET
Agency / Paramount Television (Hollywood, CA)
Challenge:Create a desktop application that can alert users of breaking entertainment news and stories, and strengthen the Entertainment Tonight Brand and ratings through awareness.
Solution:A robust player application that resides in the user's system tray, and tied to a robust XML data stream. Windows Media Player provides streaming video snippets and teasers, while animated user interface elements reinforce the dynamic nature of Entertainment Tonight Show.
Penn Tennis Online Tennis Game
Penn Racquets / Lavidge & Baumayr (Phoenix, AZ)
Challenge:Offer a fun and challenging diversion for Penn web site visitors. Reinforce the brand and apply hooks into the game for future development into a multiplayer game.
Solution:Using advanced Flash ActionScript, Penn E-Tennis is much more than a simple "Pong" format game. Penn E-Tennis accounts for real physics, including ball weight and "fuzziness". Also, court surface characteristics, player skill levels, and even wind effects. This game is a challenge to play, which separates the skill levels of players for a satisfying experience.
HSTrask eCommerce Web Site
HSTrask Shoes (Bozeman, MT)
Challenge:Redesign an existing e-commerce web site and migrate the backend from early Site Server to Windows 2000 Advanced Ecommerce Server
Visit HStrask.com.
Solution:Leveraging the existing data and user base, the Migration to the latest Microsoft ECommerce system offered many ways to extend the web site for everything from inventory query to automated ordering via Catalog Phone Order operators.
Health'nstein's Body Fun
Cancer Research Prevention Association (Alexandria, VA )
Challenge:In 1994, Dr. Health'nstein's Body Fun was released as a CD-ROM product. Nearly a decade later, the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation wanted to leverage the same program for a web audience. How do you migrate a 300MB+ game to a low bandwidth environment like the world wide web?
Solution:Converting a 300MB Director Based CD-ROM to Flash is no trivial task. At RoganStreet, however, we had developed tools to accomplish many of these tasks, including AutoMatte; a tool that culls bitmaps from Director into Flash automatically. Also, all Director Lingo was reverse engineered to an advanced Flash ActionScript code base. The results offer a 56K modem experience with no loss of the original data or games.
Hewlett Packard Support CD and Web Simulators
Hewlett Packard / Sakson & Taylor (Boise, ID)
Challenge: Update a previous CD design and convert existing PDF Documentation into interactive animations that simulate the use and care of the 8550 Series Color Laser Printers.
Solution: Using the previous CD as an information architecture, we developed a new design that could accommodate both the previous 8500 Series Printer information and the newer 8550 series printer without extensive redevelopment. Converting the PDF files to meaningful animations required storyboarding of the information with an emphasis on using existing PDF graphics. Finally all of the Flash based interactive animations were re-distributed on the HP support web site with no additional modifications. Lots of original artwork, animation and advanced Flash 4 Action Script.
Brooks Lake Lodge Web Site
Brooks Lake Lodge (Dubois, WY)
Challenge: Update a previous web site design to match new marketing collateral.
Visit Brooks Lake Lodge Web Site.
Solution: Design and development focused on matching current design materials. Each section was modified to be updated without HTML authoring tools, and the ability for users to request Brochures and Reservations were added via email notification. An "inter-page" slide show function was added to each page to allow more images of the lodge to be seen without long downloads or extensive "screen Real Estate".
Shaquille
O'Neal - Stay Safe Online Web Site/CD-ROM
Shaquille O'Neal, Boys & Girls Club of America, The
Microsoft Network, and the Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Shaq teaches kids how to "Stay Safe Online" in this entertaining 15 minute animated tutorial and test. RoganStreet created the programming, final animation, and original artwork for the CD-ROM version of Stay Safe Online, and designed the web site presentation to stream at 2kps to include 33.6 modem users.
Learn More...
Visit Stay Safe Online.
Rocky
Mountain DSL Web Site - Flash
Multi-Band Communications, Inc. (Bozeman, MT)
Challenge: To create an easy-to-understand illustration of the performance difference between dialup modem connections and Multi-Band Communications high speed DSL.
For more information, view the Web Farm.
Solution: RoganStreet developed a marketing approach to address the problem, redesigned the company's Web Site to support the promotion, and created an amusing Flash animation to educate new DSL users.
"Web Farm" animals are sent through various "bandwidth pipes", making connection speed comparisons clear and entertaining. Multi-Band Communication used the "Web Farm" as the centerpiece of its Web, Print, Radio, and Television campaign. The Flash presentation integrates seamlessly into the company's informational web site, and launches external HTML pages that mimic the look of the Flash file.
Conservation
Real Estate Web Site/Flash Introduction
American Conservation Real Estate (Helena, MT)
Challenge: American Conservation Real Estate needed a "printable" website that included a 10 minute audio presentation.
Visit American
Conservation Real Estate online, or learn more
about this project.
Solution: A new web site with a 5 minute introductory Flash presentation that imparts a distinctive mood and attitude about conservation real estate services. Creating printable web site pages eliminated print-based design costs and the redesigned site contained a wealth of easily accessible information that educated visitors about the conservation real estate market.
Lone
Mountain Ranch Website/Flash Trail Map
Lone Mountain Ranch Guest Ranch (Big Sky, MT)
Challenge: Lone Mountain Ranch, a high-profile destination guest ranch in Big Sky, Montana, needed a unique way to display and promote their world-famous cross-country ski trails.
View the Interactive Trail Map , or visit Lone Mountain Guest Ranch.
Solution: The site was completely re-designed and its navigational elements were modeled on the ranch's structures and signage. An interactive Flash presentation was designed that allowed users to preview the extensive trail system, providing images and sounds of the location area to enhance the experience. The map can be downloaded quickly (file size >500K) or sent to clients on a floppy disk.
RoganStreet, Inc.
DFilm.com and Atom Films.com sponsored a Star Wars parody scriptwriting contest that offered a Grand Prize of funding, production and Internet distribution. Star Wars celebrities judged the competition. "A Rebellion About Nothing" was selected from over 300 entries for final Grand Prize consideration but lost by a narrow margin. Read the script, A Rebellion About Nothing.
Microsoft / Artsource (Redmond, WA)
As web technologies become more powerful, browsers are being used as an "interface layer." Hosting the Internet Explorer browser as a control inside Outlook Express allowed the "front end" to be developed in tandem with the "back end". This RoganStreet interface design uses a mix of Dynamic HTML, Style Sheets, JavaScript, and some custom core code to apply this interface to Microsoft's popular messaging application.
Learn more about the Outlook Express Interface.
RoganStreet (Bozeman, MT)
Before Internet Marketing professionals discovered "Branded Entertainment," RoganStreet developed a current events game to channel users to Amazon.com. Pull My String won several awards, including Macromedia's "Shocked Site of the Day" where it drew 12,000 unique users per day. Nearly 100,000 unique users played Pull My String when it was featured on the RoganStreet web site.
Dairy farmers of Washington/Futureworks (Seattle, WA)
This educational touch-screen presentation is a permanent kiosk at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. A second, mobile kiosk promotes dairy farming and products in schools and at events throughout Washington. A third version was released on a Hybrid Win/MacOS CD-ROM. It's All About Cows makes extensive use of Director/Lingo and QuickTime technologies.
Microsoft/Artsource (Redmond, WA)
Extensive prototyping helped Sidewalk develop and simplify strategies for the final product. RoganStreet prototypes were tested using actual sidewalk data, thousands of business addresses, real time mapping, and a user personalization system. This project made extensive use of Active Server Pages, SQL/ADO, HTML, and Visual Basic for developing tools, e.g., an RGB to HEX color converter
Packard Bell/Ark Interface/Publishing Power (Seattle, WA)
RoganStreet helped Packard Bell deploy the Ark Interface Navigator as their default Windows-user interface by creating 8 user tutorials with Visual Basic, 3D Graphics, QuickTime, Database and Windows API techniques.
Learn more about this project.
Microsoft/Publishing Power (Seattle, WA)
This Microsoft CD Sampler (version 2.0) contained 42 discrete product demos with an easy to use browsing shell to illustrate details about every MSHome product. This presentation was designed specifically to run on Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.11 platforms that, at that time, required some creative work-arounds and advanced Lingo. Integrated DLLs (written by Terry Schussler) supported advanced Windows API activities that made it possible for this Macromedia Director demo to pass rigorous Microsoft testing.
Edmark/Sakson & Taylor/DigitalInk (Seattle, WA)
Challenge: Edmark needed a CD sampler that described and demonstrated their educational software product line.
Solution: Designed by Al Matsumoto of Digital Ink, the Sampler was pressed to Hybrid CDs for both MacOS and Windows formats. RoganStreet used advanced Lingo and Director techniques to pass Edmark's stringent test requirements.
Microsoft/Genigraphics (Los Altos, CA)
Challenge: While working as Director of Multimedia at Genigraphics, RoganStreet's Phil Rogan was contracted by Microsoft to create the most advanced PowerPoint slide presentation possible given the limitations of the software.
Solution: The Columbus Presentation - featured on the product box and in all national advertising - was shipped with the product as a capabilities demonstration. Rogan, in collaboration with Genigraphics artist Carmen Wolff, designed the presentation for display on monitor screen, 35mm slide, view foils, and print uses. The result of this unilateral success was additional assignments from Microsoft to create a comprehensive series of graphics for other Windows Office suite products.