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Really short update today. I’ve just been doing some more work on creating and setting up models for import into the game. UV unwraps, zeroing out transforms, organizing materials, that sort of t...
Really short update today. I’ve just been doing some more work on creating and setting up models for import into the game. UV unwraps, zeroing out transforms, organizing materials, that sort of t...
I recently played The Room. My son is currently obsessed with it. On its face it seems to be a puzzle game, but as I played with it, I realized that it was actually something quite different. It’s ...
Real quick one this week. I did some work on the shaders. They were a bit cryptic, with exposed floats for tuning. I cleaned all that up, and got rid of a bunch of prototype nonsense. The render ...
Best Games - Star Control 2 We 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 jus...
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 sided dice in t...
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 adequately defined the proble...
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 gam...
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...