Professor designs video game for hit TV show
- Professor to design an online game for TNT television channel show.
- Game designed to reward people who enter the website with something fun to do.
By Amanda McCutchen, Staff Writer
Graphic communication professor Sean Gleeson is in the process of designing an online game called “Badgeball” for the show “Saving Grace” on the television channel TNT. The game will soon be launched on the TNT website.
“The game was created to reward people who come to the website with something fun to do, and also it promotes the show,” Gleeson said.
Gleeson got the idea for Badgeball from another casual game called Happy Pill. A casual game is a simple game played online to kill time.
In the game Happy Pill players shoot a pill at sad faces to make them happy and obtain points; in Badgeball you shoot a badge at criminals and arrest them to obtain points.
Gleeson said TNT contacted him a month ago about the idea of a game for the show. At first they do a lot of talking, then they work out contracts and that takes some time.
Gleeson has been working on the game for three weeks now and still has more work to do.
‘Every game conforms to the highest standards of artwork, animation, music and sound effects,” Gleeson said.
He said the game will have lots of sound effects like clanks, thunks, water effects, street noises, and yelps from the criminals.
After the game is complete, Gleeson said, the game then has to be approved by TNT.
“Everyone involved must say yes.”
Gleeson worked at ad agencies for years. Over time he learned about animation and programming, then he began creating websites.
Gleeson created his first online game in 2004: “Wichita Faro.” He put the game on his personal website, Gleeson. us.
“The game garnered attention from museums and universities all over,” said Gleeson.
Gleeson also has created educational games and training games for corporations, a jigsaw puzzle for the Oklahoma City Ford Center and A Very Funny Texas Hold’em Poker game for the television channel TBS.
Staff Writer Amanda McCutchen can be reached at StaffWriter3@occc.edu.
