Benjamin D. Richards

Design Portfolio

2009 University Work

mechanical insect

Image gallery featuring work from first-year design papers.

2010 University Work

mddn201 Project 2: Virtual Tour

A tour of the imaginary city of Whitebay. Click here to enter the subsite. Uses a heavily modified Google Maps API implementation.

mddn201 Project 3: Weather Visualiser

A tool for abstract representation of weather data, coded entirely in Flash Actionscript 3. Click here to view the file, and click on the background to cycle between Wellington (New Zealand), Paris (France), and Chad. Uses the Yahoo! Weather feed to stay up-to-date.

Variants for Mars and Venus are available. These do not draw remote data, simply using some preset numbers, and are not interactive.

dsdn232 Project 1: Flash Game

Buster's Snark Hunt, an exercise in character and environment design. While the brief concerned environmental issues, it ultimately became a broader statement about greed and short-sightedness drawing heavily from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting Of The Snark. Control the game using all four arrow keys.