Windows Live SearchPet was a tool created to be able to customize your search-page/toolbar with a little charactar designed by yourself. The design engine is very dynamic, allowing much more creative freedom than most of these kind of applications.
We later added a feature where you could mate two SearchPets to see how their offspring would look.
Agency: Joy
My role: Creative director and developer
The Count is feeling a bit apprehensive. Probably with good reasons. Lurking in dark alleys. Scheming.
Moody, neurotic tunes, spanning over a wide range of genres. From Tom Waits to dark warriordisco to some uneasy chitown ghetto trax. The centerpiece is the incredible Squadro Blanco - The night must fall.
This is the previous hemmendorff.com, last updated back in 2004 or so. It features some pretty neat random animations. If you have some time on your hands, wait until the little fisherman comes and catches a fish. Good times.
I’m not sure how much of it still works, and it clearly looks a bit jagged and buggy. But it’s still up for nostalgic reasons.