The Thrill Electric, an original online comic brought to you by Channel 4
Submitted 28th October 2011
Written by Leah Moore, John Reppion, produced by Hat Trick, illustrated by Emma Vieceli and Windflower Studios and animated by LittleLoud Studios, The Thrill Electric explores how the telegraph changed Victorian society every bit as much as the modern day internet. The comic launches in Autumn 2011 and will be free worldwide.
See more coverage on the Moore/Reppion blog here:
http://www.moorereppion.com/tag/the-thrill-electric/
Follow the story here:
http://www.thethrillelectric.com/
Alongside the brilliant selection of songs by artists such as Crystal Fighters, and New Young Pony Club, I have contributed music and also the sound design. The story revolves around telegraphy so I built a useful morse code generator in music software application Ableton and used this to create the morse tapping you hear on the soundtrack. I'll post it up for download shortly.
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Sweatshop Goes Live
Submitted 13th August 2011
Brought to you by Littleloud and Channel 4, Sweatshop is a hilarious, thought-provoking free-to-play strategy game set in an offshore factory manufacturing clothes for Western high street retailers. Manage workers, upgrade your premises and meet the demands of your clients while deciding whether to be a generous or ruthless manager.
The soundtrack I have provided to this extremely addictive game is made up of short and catchy Chiptune melodies, inspired by the 8-bit console and handheld games I loved so dearly growing up. You can play the game here:
www.playsweatshop.com
The soundtrack is also available for download on iTunes. Go on, it's free!
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The Curfew Scoops Two Awards at 2011 British Interactive Media Awards
Submitted 20th January 2010
Facing off stiff competition this year, Littleloud's interactive browser game The Curfew received the 'Best Education and Outreach' and 'Best Motion Graphics' BIMA awards. The game was further nominated in the 'Best Sound', 'Best Game' and 'Most Original' categories. The awards ceremony took place on November 25th in Charing Cross, London UK.
Read more at:
http://www.bimaawards.com/2010-finalists.phphttp://www.bimaawards.com/2010-finalists.php
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The Curfew is now online
Submitted 15th September 2010
The Curfew, an online role-player produced for Channel 4, has been receiving positive reviews from the press. Check the game out at www.thecurfewgame.com
Some reviews:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/08/the-curfew-channel-4-game-review
http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/gaming/2010/07/the-curfew---a-channel-4-political-thriller-webgame.html
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Work Begins on The Curfew
Submitted 10th February 2010
I am pleased to provide music and audio to another Littleloud production.
Littleloud, a company specialising in flash-based animation and gaming, has a new and entirely original interactive drama underway entitled The Curfew. Set in a not-too-distant future, economic and security pressures force a night-time curfew on young people. Touching upon themes of privacy, identity, politics, liberty and citizenship, The Curfew builds upon the real, active curfews existing today in over a thousand towns and cities in Britain, where a person under the age of 16 out after 9pm can be sent home by police.
The game has been commissioned by Channel 4, following their announcement of a £4.5m fund to new online content, half of which is finding its way to UK independent digital entertainment companies such as Littleloud, Tuna Technologies, Beatnik Games,
Zombie Cow Studios, Six to Start, Preloaded, and to fund projects up to £800,000 in size.
To read more about Channel 4's funding initiative, read here:
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