Best Games - Star Control 2We sit, perched forward, on wooden kitchen chairs. Moonlight slips between the vertical blinds behind us. Paired with the phosphor glow of my 15 inch monitor, it is ...

A few months ago I ordered, by rough estimate, a cup and a half of dice. A few of the standard cube shaped, 6 sided variety, but more importantly, there were 4, 8, 10, 12, and 20 s...

I don’t think that writers block (or artists / designers / creators block) is a fear of the blank page or canvas. I think a creator gets “blocked” because they haven’t ...

First off, Thank you to anyone who has been reading this blog. I have enjoyed writing it. But. I have some good news and some bad news. First the bad news. I ending the blog and all other game...

Games are enjoying a golden age. The first generation that never knew a world without video games is well into bringing up the first generation that will never know a world without the interne...

My Neighbour Totoro is one of my favorite movies. It's probably in my top five, if I cared to order the movies I love in that way.I don't. There are just too many. Do I rank them by times watc...

This week I was cleaning up some models, making a couple new models, and doing a UV unwrap on this character.  That weird looking pelt in the bottom right is the UV layout There ar...

I wanted to create a small sample scene of actual assets from Adventure Caddie. I’m only now coming to grips with the rigging and animation systems in blender, so I opted instead to use ...

Best Games - Encounter!I played Encounter on an Atari 800 computer. I played it a lot. It would be 10 years before Id software would recapture,with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the fluid control, ...

BlenderThe first 3D animation program I learned to use was Truespace 3D in the mid 90's. I would later go on to use, autocad, power animator, maya, and 3DSMax. The list of peripheral modellers...