2026–ongoing
Happy Land
A cookie clicker multiplayer game for streaming — tap, idle, buy upgrades, chat — still early and mutating.
Mashed together
Cookie clicker, a casino, Monopoly houses, and chat, on one map you can tinker with on stream.
Trying things out
Projects
Things I've been tinkering with: trying them out, improvising, abandoning them, reviving them, or making them because it seemed like a laugh.
2026–ongoing
FrameHunt
An early click-the-picture demo for students practising named bits of the body. Timed, scored, ranked a bit like Times Tables Rock Stars. Started in 2026 with Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health; hosted as a CEDS demo while the idea is still being talked through.
Mashed together
Times Tables Rock Stars, named bits of a body, and a PHP page dressed like a skills lab.
2025–ongoing
HLS Digital Directory
A sharing database for Health and Life Sciences staff at the University of Liverpool. Mostly so people put their teaching projects in one place, find related work, and maybe stop reinventing the same thing down the corridor.
Mashed together
A staff catalogue that tries to show this teaching project is related to that one.
2023–ongoing
Clingo
Clingo is clinical bingo for health students. Instead of numbers you get phrases you might hear on placement. Scan a QR code for a card, someone at the front runs the caller, and when the card is full you shout CLINGO. ScLINGO is the same game with Scouse.
Mashed together
Bingo night, clinical phrases, Scouse, and a QR code on a phone.
2021–ongoing
Placement allocation
A web app for spreading students across hospital sites without living in last year’s spreadsheet. Trusts confirm capacity, universities have preferences, academic years stack up, and somebody still has to email people when a site has not filled in this year’s numbers.
Mashed together
Hospital sites, how many students they can take this year, university preferences, and the spreadsheet that used to hold all of it.
2025
Chat with Jekyll and Hyde
Clinical ethics scenarios for health students. You pick a messy situation, a bad doctor has already given terrible advice, and you talk it through with a chatbot that is meant to be the better colleague in the room.
Mashed together
Ethics cases, a pile of terrible advice, and ChatGPT as the colleague who has to unpick it.
2023
What's my Protected Characteristic?
A classroom spinner for the Equality Act. You spin a protected characteristic, get dealt a clinical scenario and a practitioner role, then talk about what that combination actually means in the room.
Mashed together
A fairground wheel, the Equality Act, and a clinical scene you then have to talk through.
2013
Fandom scraper and Corrie faces
I wanted structured data about Coronation Street and Fandom does not have DBpedia. Infoboxes are still in there, so I wrote a Python scraper, then later pointed a Haar cascade at a clip to see if it could tell Emma from Steve.
Mashed together
Soap-opera wikis, infoboxes, a Python crawl, and a face detector pointed at Coronation Street.
2019
Vetscape
A veterinary case as a text adventure. Lennox Harlowe was written in Twine, put into Cordova so it could run on a phone, and there is a Unity/Fungus 2D version in another repo.
Mashed together
A vet case written as a branching story, then wrapped so it can run on a phone.
2024–ongoing
Comparative Judgement
A web app for ranking work by repeatedly picking which of two things is better. A collaboration between Liverpool’s Centre for Educational Development and Support, the School of Dentistry, and the School of Biosciences. Students use it to peer-assess and actually look at the work; staff use it to mark at scale; it has also been used with movie posters as an icebreaker. Dentistry is using it live.
Mashed together
Keep picking which poster is better, zoom in like a museum, and keep a spreadsheet people actually trust.
2025–ongoing
Twitch Games - Harold & Olympus
A local OBS browser overlay where chat plays a ridiculous retro text adventure together: wandering around, voting on directions, fighting bosses, racing, doing pub quizzes, and slowly becoming an adventuring mob with levels and grudges.
Mashed together
Twitch chat driving a text adventure on an OBS overlay, with YouTube chat mixed in.
2022
KIRAT Training
An Articulate Storyline course for KIRAT, a police risk-assessment tool used in child-protection investigations. Built with CEDS, University of Liverpool researchers, the NCA, and the College of Policing so officers across the UK learned the same version of the tool the same way.
Mashed together
A Storyline course for a police risk tool, so every force got the same version.
2021
Data-relationships and digital surveillance
My PhD. I ran collaborative workshops where people used open-source stats on digital footprints, hoping they’d get a feel for what data-driven organisations actually do with their data. Teaching the methods bored most people. Showing wrestling tag-team graphs to wrestling fans worked better. University of Bolton, 2021.
Mashed together
Open-source stats, digital footprints, and wrestling graphs, trying to make surveillance feel real enough to talk about.
2014
Exploring Wrestling Stables
I pulled wrestling stables out of Wikipedia via DBpedia, mapped who had been teammates, and posted the giant graphs on Reddit. Wrestling fans spotted missing Ric Flair, argued about stables versus factions, and the messy Wikipedia data turned out to be the interesting bit.
Mashed together
Wrestling stables, Wikipedia, and a giant network map that Reddit fact-checked.