Very impressive snowflake
Posted by Sam
Perhaps the most visible part of my job is keeping dozens of web sites up and running. Some of them are very high profile sites and some of them are very obscure. One of the most surprising sites is a site that my company (Barkley) did several years ago. It's called Make-a-Flake. Year after year it continues to get millions of hits with no marketing of any kind.
The basic idea behind the site is that it tries to replicate the paper snowflakes we all made as kids in grade school. If you've used the site you know how difficult it can be to make a very coo flake and even more difficult if you are trying to recreate a particular design or image. And that brings us to a flake I came across today. The flake is below and if you've ever watched South Park you know exactly what the creator of the flake was making. I count no less than five distinct images carved into this snowflake and the main image is that of Kyle from South Park. Go try and make a snowflake and you will really being to appreciate how difficult this snowflake truly is. Have other great snowflakes? Leave them in the comments.
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Comments
about 2 hours later Jay said
Very clever! :D As an aside, that it has no marketing "of any kind" is a bit untrue. The 'game' has been posted on many popular Flash game sites all over the Web. Here is one of my favorites... http://jayisgames.com/archives/2004/12/make-a-flake.php ;)
about 3 hours later Sam Freiberg said
Well I could be mistaken, but I don't believe Barkley or lookandfeel new media ever put any marketing into the site. But it's great that lots of other people are marketing it. :) Great write up on the site by the way!