NEWS

We're open to doing contracting for other companies.

Recent projects done with Gibson International include:

• Helping out with Vaeggen (May 2010)
  • Screen saver (synchronising multiple screens with adjacent screens to give a faux panoramic view)
  • Postcards (taking a photo of user with webcam, composing with screen, emailing out)
  • Email image upload (getting & parsing email, grabbing image, but majority of work was the UI widgets)

• Majority of computer exhibits at Zealandia (April 2010)
  • 'Shadow interactive' (4 webcams capture user feedback and feed into interactive bird simulation projected across 2 screens)
  • Part author of 'Weather interactive' (use touch to drag around simulated weather system and trigger movies)
  • Room control software (startup/shutdown and coordination of other computer exhibits with 'Main movie')
  • Simple web kiosk

Technologies used included: Cocoa, OpenGL, Ogre3D, C++, C, Ruby, OSX System programming, Networking.

We are going to publicise fernLightning activity more, starting with:

Look out for our avatar icon:

Today we released v1.5 - much better performance, and now usable controls. Meanwhile we now have approx 1.3 million downloads since the initial release!

Our port of Cube for the iPhone was finally approved on the 18th Nov.

Damn shame that it's free because the download statistics are shocking:

Currently we're sitting at #1 on the AppStore free downloads, though I think we've peaked - not bad considering the only advertising was two youTube videos and an announcement on the Cube forums.

As of Novemember 2008 fernLightning has moved base. We are still in Wellington, but now enjoy an improved view and better office space amongst the suburban greenery.