Digital TV Portfolio
Below are a selection of digital TV projects that we have worked on in the past, please click on each project name to view or hide the details for each project. Screenshots are provided for each of the projects, if you have digital TV from Virgin Media then you can access most of the projects via the interactive button.
Please Note: Spodnet Ltd is not responsible for the support of these services, please can you contact Freethinking Ltd by e-mail customerservices@free-thinking.co.uk or alternatively by phone on 0870 1624812 during office hours.
Chat Box, an un-moderated adult chat service designed to promote lively conversation in a TV environment. It's main features includes chatting in various rooms and private rooms, friends/ignore lists and private messaging. We wrote the Liberate front end to Chat Box and have since ported it to Ant Fresco, Ant Galio and Oregan IPTV browsers for Freethinking Ltd.
- Live Service - You can view the live service on Virgin Media's Cable Network
- Platforms - Liberate, Ant Fresco (IPTV), Ant Galio (IPTV) and Oregan (IPTV)
- Skills - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Telemessenger, a messaging service for sending messages to set-top boxes and mobile phones. It's main features include texting to and from mobile phones, messaging between set-top boxes, parental lock, buddy lists, and a tv mode which allows the user to watch a tv channel and if a message comes in they get prompted on screen. We wrote the Liberate front end to TeleMessenger for Freethinking Ltd.
- Live Service - You can view the live service on Virgin Media's Cable Network
- Platforms - Liberate
- Skills - HTML, JavaScript, and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Gamehog, a collection of games under the Gamehog name and portal, games include Armageddon (Turn based strategy), Depth Charge (Networked Battleships), Draughts, Ningo (Maths Based Bingo), The Daily Word (Word Puzzles), Train Trap (Pipemania type game) and Worddrop (Letter dropping word game). All the games feature leaderboards and most of them include a demo or trial game. We wrote the Liberate versions of the games and portal for Freethinking Ltd.
- Live Service - You can view the live service on Virgin Media's Cable Network
- Platforms - Liberate
- Skills - HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Kidsclub, a portal featuring a jokes section, picture gallery and birthdays page along with a selection of games designed for kids aged 3-12 years. The games include Noughts and Crosses, Memory Match (Pairs), Word Wizard (Hangman), Grid Mayhem (Squares) and Line-em Up (Connect 4). A content management system allows the jokes and birthday sections to be managed. We wrote the Liberate versions of the games and portal for Freethinking Ltd.
- Live Service - You can view the live service on Virgin Media's Cable Network
- Platforms - Liberate
- Skills - HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Kidstime Play & Learn, a children's portal featuring the following games, Blues Clues (Clue Finding), Dora The Explorer (Maze Game), Miffy (Pairs), Bagpuss (Matching Mice), Wind In The Willows (Story Book), Noughts and Crosses, and Flutterby Butterfly (Picture Reveal). We wrote the Liberate versions of the games and portal for Freethinking Ltd.
- Live Service - You can view the live service on Virgin Media's Cable Network
- Platforms - Liberate
- Skills - HTML, JavaScript, and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Puzzlemania, a set of puzzle games and portal. The games include Judoku, Mirror Crosswords, Word Search, Word Grid, Number Grid and Trevor. We wrote the Liberate front end to Puzzlemania and made updates and fixes to the games for Freethinking Ltd.
- Live Service - You can view the live service on Virgin Media's Cable Network
- Platforms - Liberate
- Skills - HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Plug It In, this was the Big Brother game for Channel 4 in 2005, based around an old game called pipemania were the player had to plumb pipes for the flow of water. For Plug It In the idea was to lay cables from the power socket to the camera avoiding lawnmowers and housemates who would appear and move randomly in the game. We wrote two versions, both games playing the same and having the same features on Liberate and on OpenTV using Ensequence On-Q for Freethinking Ltd and Channel 4.
- Live Service - Not live, both were available by red button on Channel 4 during big brother in 2005
- Platforms - Liberate and OpenTV
- Skills - HTML, JavaScript, Ensequence On-Q and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Channel 4 Worddrop. A port of the Liberate version of Worddrop from Gamehog to OpenTV. New graphics were used and game play was basically the same - letters drop down and the player selects them to build up a word, each level requires more and longer words. We wrote the game for Freethinking Ltd and Channel 4.
- Live Service - Not live, was available via red button on Channel 4 in 2004-6
- Platforms - OpenTV
- Skills - Enqsequence On-Q and Image Manipulation/Optimisation
Turtle Twist. A technical demo written using Ensequence On-Q. The game was a "columns" clone and was produced as a demo game for Freethinking and Ensequence using their On-Q authoring suite.
- Live Service - Demo, not live
- Platforms - OpenTV
- Skills - Ensequence On-Q