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 internet. Ga...

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 watched?...

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 are about se...

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 a bunch of ...

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, s...

Blender The 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, r...

There are a lot of examples of morality systems in games. Games where there is a light or dark, good or bad choice. Often the choices are explicitly highlighted for you, and you will receive reward...

A few years ago, when I made signs, I created a complicated measuring tool that could take the place of 7 or 8 other, large, unwieldy tools. It was cut out of one, fairly light piece of aluminum, a...

Global Game Jam 2013 Over this past weekend I had the honor of working with this talented and dedicated team of people. From the looks of this picture we are all well hydrated.  In just shy of ...

Best Games - Joust rhythmic flap of wings one press to cheat gravity van art in motion