Hello Purple Flame

Arrive late. Work. Neighbouring co-worker sets his music loud. Typical. Office mates starts to chat among themselves. Sometimes I join in, but most of the time I couldn't barge into the conversation, and hence pretend like I'm so deep in my work that I didn't hear them. Lunch time, someone says. To cool to stand immediately me, had to do a bit more of work (as though it couldn't wait) before joining the march to the restaurant downstairs. There, eat food while listening to co-workers chat. Now and then I try to interact. When I can't interact, and when listening to them for too long turns me into a nodding zombie, I would glance around for any pretty chicks instead, and humour myself to ask for their number. Never happened. But I will one day (*cough*). Back to work. Boss appears to assess work. Cool he says. Thanks I would say. Maybe some changes here he says. Okay I would say. 6pm finally. What? Yes, I came late this morning. Bye. Rinse, repeat.

Pretty neat stuff of creativity are brewing at Purple Flame. Here at this humble red chair is where I do my work. Currently I am working on an online 3D Science Museum where multiple users can enter simultaneously. Aptly named Virtual Science Museum (VSM), it features plenty of hands on interactivity experience with science exhibits (okay okay virtually hands on).

Think of the possibilities! Entering the gateway to the world of Chemistry, you enter an abstract world of floating molecules (like one of those abstract world in Super Mario Galaxy) with your avatar, working on experiments that are too difficult to do in real life museums---pretty cool right? And to top it off you can chat with other fellow visitors as well (and maybe even work together, or compete with one another). That is the vision of my boss, Rogue (that's his nickname if you really had to ask). One of the great things about working here is the creative freedom that Rogue entrusted upon me to do my work.

The VSM is currently in its early stages of development. At the time of this writing I had just finished modelling and texturing the main lobby of the VSM, which houses the gateways to the various disciplines of science (though I am pretty sure that I will return back to make several tweaks during the later stages). The progress of work is posted on the company website. So it's like a blog of sorts, and you can follow the shaping of the VSM on a weekly basis. It's been going for several weeks now so you may want to check the older posts there too. Do visit the site by clicking here.

There is also a working prototype program that features a controllable avatar on a space station (Daim, you may want to check this out, because the avatar is a 3D model based on the character art design that you drawn during your short freelance work for Purple Flame). Play the program directly by clicking here.

P.S. A plugin is required to run the program (shockwave player), which your browser would automatically redirect you to download if your browser doesn't have it. I hope you would kindly download the plugin because all of my work in Purple Flame would be published in this format. Thanks.