CHARLIE HOEY

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Hello. I'm a developer based in San Francisco working at The Barbarian Group.
Below are some things I've done recently. I also have a Tumblr and a Twitter, or just

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The Great Gatsby
for NES

I made an original Nintendo platform game adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby with my friend Pete Smith. It was released for free as a Flash game and promptly went viral, with over 250,000 players in the first 48 hours, and over 2 million to date. We spoke about the game last year at the StoryDrive conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, it was even on Good Morning America. We also sell t-shirts.

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Samsung Secret Sites

For Samsung's Boosted Secret Sites campaign, I had to create an online scavenger hunt where users would scour the web for 10 microsites hidden at various locations. Clues were broadcast over twitter, and the first user to discover the site won a Samsung laptop. During the course of the project, we had to adapt to some very clever brute force attacks that let some users gain an advantage, and managed to stay one step ahead. I also got to build a replica of Zombo, a long time dream of mine.

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GE Healthiest You

GE wanted to build an engaging Facebook app that let you pit your nutrition and lifestyle habits against a global audience. Healthiest You scans your activities, checkins and wall posts for keywords and locations that give hints about your overall health. Then, users answer 10 questions and are given scores in 3 categories. You can then pit yourself against everyone, other users with your name, and your friends. I am the second healthiest Charlie to take the quiz.

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The GE Show : Minecraft Mastery

I constructed the Edison Memorial Tower in Minecraft, for The GE Show's manufacturing episode. I decided to use timelapse footage from several in-game cameras to document the construction, and also to screencap my planning process, including image searchs and satelite photos of the tower, and the architectural design. Phil Stockton edited my 20+ hours of footage down to a svelt 2 minutes. It got some good press and nearly 500k views on Youtube.