Filidor Wiese

I wrote a multilingual online store for an antique business from scratch using React and Laravel Lumen. It's written as an isomorphic single-page application with a RESTful back end and a custom CMS to manage content, products, and orders. The online store works nicely on modern devices and is written to perform well for a global audience. Next, I've made it a personal challenge to optimize the codebase for search engines to the best of my abilities. Amongst other features, this includes highly optimized markup, multilingual sitemaps, and structured data.

A campaign website for the Dutch government to bring more awareness about antibiotic resistance to health care providers. Using the webcam, users can grow a digital hand signature from bacteria. A large poster of this unique graphic would then be delivered to be hung on the wall of the practitioner.

My involvement in the project included animating the signature and generating the poster image en masse using WebGL.

An online experience telling the story of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

I technically adapted three historic hand-drawn maps from before and after the fire to overlap exactly the current map of the city. It entailed automated stretching, transforming and slicing the massive image files, and visualizing them using the Google Maps API.

I developed an animated, interactive map that users could utilize to explore information about their brands and breweries for the global website of Heineken.

This map helped to visualize that they are “the world’s most international brewer.” The responsive and cross-browser requirements of the assignment made it a challenging but fun project.

After my personal website, galaxy.fili.nl, had won an Awwwards award in 2011, I was contacted by Wildlife, a Los Angeles-based digital agency. They asked me to code an extraordinarily complex design they had made to showcase their work.

The many parallax and sprite animations required sought to push the boundaries of what's possible in a web browser. I've had great fun working on this project, winning both an FWA and an Awwwards award.

Multeor is a modern multiplayer web game using some of the latest (at that time) web techniques like Canvas and WebSockets. In the game, users control a meteor crashing into the earth and score points by leaving the biggest trail of destruction.

Unique is that the game is viewed on a desktop computer but controlled by smartphones. Up to eight players can connect to a single game simultaneously.

The game was built from scratch in plain JavaScript using Canvas as the rendering surface and backed with a Node.js web server to manage the communication between the desktop and smartphones using WebSockets.