Portfolio

My Portfolio page here will be updated from time to time with links to various projects I’ve done. (I’m working on making a better version of this page)

Playing with Tech (these are projects I’ve been playing with to get familiar with tech I don’t currently use on a regular basis)

React demo with responsive CSS Flexbox using BrowserRouter and Redux : https://www.jeff-sawyer.com/reactapp/

Angular demo (v7) with CSS Grid and CSS Flexbox for the layout: http://sawyer-portfolio.herokuapp.com

AngularJS demo with responsive CSS (inline-block) and simple PHP API to pull in posts : https://www.jeff-sawyer.com/new/

Trion Projects

This is the global navigation bar loaded on all trionworlds pages – it’s a completely independent chunk of code to render this bar such that it can be maintained without any interruption of the sites it’s used on and longer term ideas had this as something that could help to check api’s for auth, cart status, etc.

A quick video to show some of the interactions with the global navigation

Defiance 2050 registration page. This is one of the newest version of out registration pages and uses two small scripts to handle DOM manipulation and AJAX calls for registration against the backend JAVA services.

The Trion Worlds “Corporate” site got rebuilt in 2016 or so to look a little more “game studio” and focus on the games.

This is the RIFT 4.2 Landing Page.

This is the ArcheAge 3.5 Landing Page (note, an archived version can be viewed here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161205164746/http://www.archeagegame.com/en/revelation/).

Features:

Interative spinner animation to click and reveal a hidden code to claim. You can see this at https://jsfiddle.net/9aa979qj/.
Special hover effect and click effects based on where you click to open the screenshots.
Leveraged Freewall to provide a dynamically laid out visual of screenshots that would be easy to manage additional updates.
Lazyloading and preloading of videos and larger assets that won’t be used until visible on the page (i.e. scrolled to).

This is an old page from the launch of RIFT. The RIFTGame.com Interstitial Ad was ran to drive more traffic to purchase RIFT on the buy now page.

This is the RIFTgame.com Interstital Ad with the video player open. This popup box was an elegant solution to dim the lights and allow the user to focus on the video content.

RIFTgame.com Homepage and endorsements / quotes

Along with maintenance of RIFTgame.com, I also implemented rotating endorsements about RIFT from several review sites. Using jQuery\’s cycle, I was able to easily randomize these endorsements. I also created an internal PHP script that allowed for easy updating and additions and rapid deployments.

One of the most exciting projects I worked on is integrated into the RIFT Game Launcher itself. Utilizing a custom PHP-based solution, I have control over showing specific ads to users based on various criteria. This is also designed for rapid deployments and the ads load on the fly over the web.