Duncan Barclay
Things I've made
I've worked on many things over the years. These are some of the more successful or interesting ones.
MapsTD - Tower defence on Google Maps
MapsTD, or Maps Tower Defence, is a game built on Google Maps. The aim is to protect your home from invading creeps by building towers, which attack the creeps.
It is the most successful project I personally built from scratch, having had 100,000 unique visitors with 180,000 games loaded within 4 days of launching.
Given MapsTD's use of the Google Maps API, the primary language used for development is JavaScript, with Mootools being used as a development toolkit.
MapsTD has been mentioned in the following places:
Wired.co.uk
net magazine JavaScript site of the month (Feb 2013)
ZDNet Belgium and Netherlands
IT Media
@BathFood
@BathFood is a Twitter account that tweets the latest food hygiene ratings for food establishments within the Bath area. The ratings are taken from the ratings.food.gov.uk website by a PHP script which adds them to a database, ready for another script to come along and tweet the latest every few hours.
BBC Backstage projects
Many years ago I made a number of prototypes using data available through BBC Backstage, including mapping news stories (featured in Linux Format) and travel data such as train delays, a tv listings app and many other small things. These have mostly gone offline now.