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Directory: WEB & INTERACTIVE MEDIA
WEB DESIGNERS & DEVELOPERS
:: Ami Creative
:: Art Art Design
:: Choose Industry
:: Codesnap
:: Design Collective
:: Digital Delight
:: dirtee
:: David John Farmer
:: i DSGN - David Clowes
:: i-Vista
:: Fifteen Digital
:: Jamedia
:: Jeef
:: jellifish
:: Kent House
:: Koko Digital
:: HCL
:: Mother
:: Moonlighting
:: The Motion Monkey & FlashPromo
:: Mushroom Digital
:: Net Marketeers
:: Newfangled Media
:: Oyster Creative
:: Pin Media
:: Pixel Boutique
:: Pro Poly
:: red 2 design
:: Redoko
:: Redsauce.com
:: Slave to Design
:: Trowers Design
:: Webzen
SERVICE-PROVIDERS & BROADBAND
:: Synetrix
- specialists in building large-scale broadband
for business, government and education. Based on Keele Science Park.
:: Consumer broadband in the North Staffordshire area can be had from either
NTL/Telewest (via cable modem, up to 20mb/s),
or BT Total Broadband (via wi-fi router, up to 8mb/s).
:: Wi-fi internet access is available to all users of Virgin trains
at stations on the West Coast Mainline ( London > Birmingham > Stoke > Manchester ) train line.
GAMES & SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
:: AstraWare -
company which develops and markets its interactive games for handheld and mobile devices. Based at Keele Science Park.
:: Datel Design
- based in Stone. UK's leading manufacturer of videogame products, books and magazines.
:: JD Design
- developers of shareware utilities for Windows. Based in Mow Cop.
:: Music on my PC
- a new commercial site for computer-based music creation, run by
a Lecturer in Music Technology at Keele, who lives at Stone.
Jane is also currently putting the finishing touches to her
own music software product.
:: Koko Digital - based at Keele, Koko
specialises in viral adver-games.
:: inSignificant Productions -
based at Keele. Games authoring for online and mobile delivery.
Also multimedia CD authoring - their interactive Macbeth
won a BETT Award.
:: Parker Software. Based in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. Parker make
software that enables firms to see who is using their website and chat to them in real-time. They also have
software that merges emails into databases.
:: Martin Eiliff -
freelance multimedia developer. Based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Game Central - the network for indie videogame producers in the West Midlands.
ONLINE INFORMATION SPECIALISTS
:: Anigma Information.
PROFESSIONAL GROUPS IN THE MIDLANDS
:: Staffordshire Linux User Group
:: The UK Python Conference is held in nearby Birmingham, which has an active Python group.
:: Multipack (for web designers, mostly Birmingham)
:: Flash Midlands (Flash developers)
:: Animation Forum (2D and 3D animators)
:: Game Central (indie game developers)
SPECIALIST HARDWARE
:: OverClockers - based in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
"Europe's most successful on-line seller of high-performance
PC components." An ideal local source for the deadline-meeting
high-end hardware needed to set up a studio producing
computer-games, creating 3D animation, editing video files,
or creating digital artwork.
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