28-Jul-09

Sparkplay Media is a game developer with a soon to be released game, Earth Eternal, already listed as one of the top 5 most popular online 3D rpg games, even before it's release.

Getting ready to launch their very ambitious and exciting new game, Earth Eternal, Sparkplay Media needed assistance in designing some of the key components of it's marketing campaign.

Visionology assisted in three ways. We designed the layout and code for their e-mail marketing campaign with an easy to use layout that is flexible enough for future use. We designed a viral microsite for their game who's goal was to show the comparison between it's competitors and show why Earth Eternal is the better choice for fun, action packed online 3D gaming. Finally we designed and developed the Flash based banners to be used in a marketing push to get the name out there even further and build up anticipation before the launch.

03-Jun-09

Lockflow.com is a website devoted to the sport of mixed martial arts, delivering a diverse range of content for enthusiasts around the globe.

Lockflow.com has been growing and has outgrown it's current shoes. With new content added, different forms of advertising, and times changing they needed a look that was not only better looking but more user friendly.

With this project we started from the ground up, fleshing out the items that were most important first. We created distinct areas for the content, navigation, and advertising to visually distinguish them from one another. This helps in the separation.

The navigation was updated to be more obvious from a user's perspective and while advertising was now lessened from the previous design, it has a separate focus rather than just littering the page with ads.

The content was broken up into more distinct areas using a 2 rather than 3 column approach which we feel helps to lessen people straying away from the content areas. jQuery was used in select areas to shorten the page and make navigating areas such as the techniques more interactive and require less scrolling.

Lastly areas deemed less important to the scope of the main page were cut and saved for subpages where you can get more detailed on a specific topic. This new redesign should help Lockflow.com add content more efficiently and allow users to skim the content quicker to find what they need, giving them more time to read the content further down the line.

03-Jun-09

Ragozzino Foods is one of the leaders in the custom food industry, providing home-made Italian food solutions to businesses large and small.

Visionology concepted, designed, and developed the new Ragozzino website from conception to completion. Working with the old website, which had become stale and outdated, as a starting point only from the content, an entirely new design was generated the maintains the family friendly atmosphere that Ragozzino wants to project, yet delivers the vital information in a clean and concise manner.

An in-house photo shoot captured many historic items that were used on the various headers of the pages to emphasize the family feeling even more. From a technology standpoint the website is leaps and bounds over it's static predecessor. This new website is CMS integrated for ease and flexibility in edits and new content generation.

10-Apr-09

Iron Realms Entertainment is one of the leaders in the text and online based MUD gaming genre, putting out such enormous successes as Achaea, Imperian, Lusternia, and Aetolia.

After a couple months of concepts and planning, Visionology completed the creation of the Midkemia Online experience. Working with the producers for the soon to be released online game as well as the producers for Iron Realms Entertainment, Visionology concepted the branding for the online world as well as for their web presence and has seen the website through to completion of the various templates needed to move forward with content generation.

With these new websites, the goal was aimed at creating a higher sign up ratio and this lies with the in your face messaging. Large visuals were used throughout as well as multiple login and sign up areas in the forefront. This reverses what was done in the past using a content first approach, however it is believe that with this new approach the sign up ratio will be much stronger in the future.

11-Feb-09 Visionology, working in collaboration with the staff at Iron Realms Entertainment, developed the original interfaces for their online games in 2002. Working with the IRE programmers, we developed a new set of interfaces as well as a freshened look and feel for their recently released Flex based online games.

Iron Realms Entertainment is one of the leaders in the text and online based MUD gaming genre, putting out such enormous successes as Achaea, Imperian, Lusternia, and Aetolia.

The new set of interfaces, unlike the originals, consist of a number of rich user screens including a game portal, series of create a character and log-in steps, and the final play screen. With the flexibility of the Adobe Flex system in combination with the superior look and feel of the new design, Iron Realms is poised to maintain it's position as one of the top MUD developers.