Sunday, 26 April 2009

YouTube Cracked

This was probably the biggest coding challenge I had faced (post papervision) so far. I know looks very simple but there's a whole lot going on in the background. This is a simplified version of the kind of queries I'll be using but the foundations are there.

The button sends a request to YouTube for videos with the keywords Danger and Passion. YouTube then sends back the latest 30 videos and one is picked at random.

Preloader

I wanted to create a preloader that would be modest and also informative. I aimed for something a bit more imagenative than a prgress bar which would also convey the use of the mouse wheel.

Cave Environment

What I've done so far on the cave environment. The flame change colour using the mouse wheel and clicking a symbol will eventually envoke the youtube query for that symbol.