Craig S Miller - Chickenboy

Chickenboy

Founder (1997 – 2000) Chickenboy was an interactive marketing start up company I formed and co partnered. I provided UX + UI design and development for company websites B2C websites ranging from Fortune 500 companies, like Iomega and Time Warner Cable to smaller local businesses. We also designed and developed interactive press kits for Origin games, EA games and Digital Anvil games.

Time Warner Cable

Digital Anvil

Iomega Jobs

Ultima Ascension

Highlights

Founded and co-partnered successful design shop for 3 years
Worked with Fortune 500 companies like Time Warner Cable and Iomega
Partnered with local ad agencies in Austin
We tried new things like interactive story books, a sporting ticket app and educational based projects
Learned it was hard to maintain a small business and got real jobs (with health benefits) after a few years

Back in the day, Interactive Press Kits were all the rage. I designed and developed multiple kits (with MacroMedia Director!) that accompanied PC based games that contained behind the scenes content for fans. They also served media and press outlets with screen shots, game info and other marketing materials.

Sid Meier's Gettysburg press kit

Ultima Ascenion press kit

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri press kit

Some of the most rewarded projects I've ever worked on have been collaborating with educators on childrens books and history based apps. We developed a working prototype for a children's story book that featured TV's Captain Kangaroo's voice and original story. I developed the final online book in Flash.

I also built a prototype for a history based children's app that I was pitching to EA games. It never got picked up, but the time working on it was extremely rewarding.

Interactive storybook

Texas history app

Flash based animations

The legend of Chickenboy

Chickenboy grew out of my time at Origin Systems. One day while looking through a clip art book I came across the strangest looking image. A half boy, half chicken thing.

It was the strangest thing to come across in a clip art book, why was it even there? I decided it would be the perfect fun image to start up a new multi-media division at Origin, and eventually used for my first start up company.

The Chickenboy logo

The Chickenboy porch

CBP proper mark (to not scare off clients!)

Google Sites

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