This Christmas we wanted to create something special for our friends, colleagues, and clients to help take their minds off the rush to Christmas.]]>

This Christmas we wanted to create something special for our friends, colleagues, and clients to help take their minds off the rush to Christmas.

Our brief was to create a Flash game that was engaging, fun, festive, and most importantly had the ‘just one more go’ factor. Introducing… Sprout Invaders!

Fans of retro gaming, we decided to use the classic Space Invaders concept, but these aren’t space ships you’ll be battling in our version. You’ll be blasting your way through an army of sprouts. Whether you love them or hate them sprouts are without a doubt one of the most dangerous things you’ll eat this Christmas. We’ve even thrown in a few festive sound effects for good measure.

The rules are simple, shoot the sprouts, shoot the turkey for bonus points, and don’t get shot yourself! Watch out for those Christmas socks too, they’re everywhere. Once you’ve had a go, drop in your high score and email the game to a friend, so they can test their skills against yours.

Sprout Invaders is your chance to get revenge on all those little green monsters your parents force fed you when you were young. We’d love to know what you think so drop us a comment, or even just let us know your highest score.

Happy Christmas love from Jupiter Digital.

In the last few weeks, 3 locations across the UK have seen the opening of new-look Wilkinson stores, part of a striking new brand Jupiter have developed for the high street retailer.]]>

In the last few weeks, 3 locations across the UK have seen the opening of new-look Wilkinson stores, part of a striking new brand Jupiter have developed for the high street retailer. These trial stores are the first in what will be a nationwide rollout of a new brand we’re proud to be involved with.

With such big changes to the Wilkinson in-store environment, it was vital for the team members to be kept up-to-date with all the changes affecting their store. To do this, we created a system of bespoke high impact messages communicated via 42” plasma screens in staff areas.

Our team of digital creatives have used a range of motion graphics and audio to communicate the key information in a format that’s both contemporary and easily updatable. To complement this, RSS feeds also give team members all the latest news, sports and weather updates.

This new system of instant and visual internal communication means that Wilkinson can communicate with its employees in a modern, effective and engaging way – keeping them completely up-to-date during exciting times for the much loved British brand.

Visit our portfolio to watch the full version of the video we created for the Walton-on-Thames store.

The off-licence group behind Threshers is partnering a new

The off-licence group behind Threshers is partnering a new Facebook application which allows people to buy their friends real, rather than virtual drinks. The application works by allowing users to select a drink for a friend, pay for it through Facebooks Google checkout system, then a hard copy of the voucher is posted to the recipients house for them to redeem in any local store.

The application is called GetThemIn and was created by a Scottish based company called Freak Marketing.

GetThemIn has teamed up with First Quench covering around 1,500 stores across its Threshers, The Local, and Wine Rack outlets. Brands that have signed up to the scheme include Heineken, Fosters, Blossom Hill, and Teachers with Maltesers, Doritios, and Walkers also getting in on the action.

The application has been developed alongside responsible drinking body DrinkAware to ensure the application is only accessible to people over 18 years of age. Around 85% of Facebook users are 18 years old and above.

Yet another example of clever marketing using the world’s biggest social networking site.

Designers are, on the whole, visual people. They remember something by what it looks like.]]>

Designers are, on the whole, visual people. They remember something by what it looks like. So, is the way current search engines return their results the best way? Viewzi is a new visual search engine that presents screen shots of all the results, meaning you can see what you’re looking for.

Another feature of Viewzi is the way it allows you to tailor the way the information is presented, based on what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for music you can type in the name of the artist, then choose the ’song view’, which presents the results in a playlist and, if possible, includes a preview of the track. There are up twenty different ways that the results can be presented, such as power grid, Google time line, video view, weather view, everyday shopping and recipe view.

Although, if you’re set in your ways and prefer a more traditional view of your search results, then there is a simple text view.

I’m really impressed by Viewzi, I’ve seen a couple of visual search engines but this is by far the best so far.

Common Craft make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos. It’s a great idea which is being used by the big boys, including Google and Microsoft.]]>

Common Craft make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos. It’s a great idea which is being used by the big boys, including Google and Microsoft.

The videos are easy to understand and more importantly, they’re fun to watch. They remind me of the stop-motion techniques used back in the good old days of animation, championed by people such as Harryhausen - back-to-basics for the web.