Zach Archer

Hey kids! I'm an interactive developer living in Portland, Oregon, and I make synesthetic sounds, too. This is my blog. Send me email.


Selected Projects

Space Kitteh

Platform game with cosmic physics. Flash (ActionScript 3), music, sound, level design.
Space Kitteh entered the Jay Is Games Design Competition #4, and finished 7th out of 48 entries!
Physics demo (use arrow keys, space bar, '[' and ']' to zoom). Spiro harness. Warp graphics. Sun graphics.

Arctic Studies

Web site developed for Second Story Interactive. ASP, PerlScript, Flash, MSSQL, CSS.
Flash object browser. Object record. 360° viewer. Area map. Search engine.

Triptych Music Explorer

Three trippy, fluid kiosks, developed for Second Story Interactive. Flash, Proce55ing, PHP.
(This project is currently in development. Images and links will be provided when they become available.)
Proof-of-concept graphics demo.

Chaz Chat

The web's first comic chat room. Perl, CSS.

Great War Tables

Interactive tables that use light wands as input devices. Developed for Second Story Interactive. Flash.
Image at Flickr.

Digital Mini-Golf

Arcade game developed with Second Story Interactive. Commissioned by the Holocene Second Annual Mini-Golf Art Invitational. Flash (ActionScript 3).
Image set at Flickr.

Lagniappe Mobile Online

Web site for a bi-weekly newspaper. Ruby on Rails, MySQL, CSS.
Survey module. Where do I get my Lagniappe? Cuisine listings. Music listings.

Music & Soundtracks

Afterpulse. Drowning River Phoenix. And some other releases.

ChimpyLoops

Groove sequencer & sampler. C++, PHP.

RoboZach

I automated my own job! While working as a "Data Integrity Specialist", I developed RoboZach, which parsed incoming email requests, and automatically filled out company web forms. Perl, Outlook API.