As part of my work in 2009 for Lumos Labs, I took their initial concepts of a counting game and in conjunction with their internal team, designed and developed Space Junk, a game which helps you improve your subitizing skills. Subitizing is how many items you can count in your head when only seeing them for a small fraction of a second.
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Game Design, Music: Manlio Lo Conte
Visuals: Bret Hobbs and Franky Aguilar
Facebook game developed while at Trustnode in 2010. The goal was to have a game that showed the user the perils of being uninsured while participating in every day activities. Mutual of Omaha sponsored the game development and gave input as to key actuarial metrics which were later used in gameplay.
Game Design and Programming: Manlio Lo Conte
Game Design and Visuals: Franky Aguilar
Simple platformer. the goal is to collect all the prizes and get out the exit. If you hit any of the traps or fall through the floors you’ll have to start over! (left, right, spacebar to jump)
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Design and Programming: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Franky Aguilar
It’s one part “pong”, and one part “arkanoid”. Uses the APE physics engine to handle the motion. You can play by yourself or against the AI opponent
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Design and Programming: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Lauren Wong
Flight was a new take on a fairly simple concept: Mouse down means you go up. Mouse up means you fall. I added some walls, power ups, and a variety of different traps (like reverse, which changes what the mouse click does). It’s totally xml skinnable for the world and the levels can be designed with an xml editor.
Design and Programming: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Lauren Wong
Fishing was a simple idea. Move your mouse up and down. Grab the good (colored) fish, and avoid the black fish. It was integrated in the world as part of a fishing quest, where users would have to obtain the fishing pole by beating the game, and then they could fish for prizes on the beach.
Interaction Design and Prototypes: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Michelle Oviedo
While with the Advertising Products Group, I took the lead on interaction design and prototypes for new ideas centered around video advertisements. All of these were converted into monetized advertising products that Yahoo sells to advertisers who want to buy impressions on video ads.
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Interaction Design and Prototypes: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Kumiko Toft
As Yahoo began to explore the idea of what it would really mean to get real time data on your TV, we researched and prototyped several different methods using a “widget” feel. Here are two examples.
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Interaction Design and Prototypes: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Michelle Oviedo
At CES 2007, We demoed our revised version of Yahoo Go! for TV. This one was taken from the initial approach of a standard TV channel guide, using the concepts of your media and even your friends as different interactive channels.
Interaction Design and Prototypes: Manlio Lo Conte
Visual Design: Michelle Oviedo
Yahoo Go! for TV was a project involving your social network and social media as you might want to view it on your television. This prototype was turned into a demo that was shown at a number of conferences to show how a version for a UMPC device would function.