Posted in AI, Animation, Design, Games, Ianim on Aug 30th, 2010 No Comments »
A series of posts on the use of interactive animation in games… Last time I wrote one of these I believe I said something about weekly entries… Well, so much for that, but I’ve got a couple of new ones: … starting with Assassin’s Creed 2. I’ve talked about Assassin’s Creed before, but the sequel [...]
Posted in Design, Games on Jul 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
If you’re new to games, or consoles were more your thing in the 90s you may not have heard of Looking Glass. They were a game studio that pioneered a genre that came to be known as the “Immersive Sim”, focusing on deep player interaction with a detailed and consistent game world using a unique [...]
Posted in Animation, Art, Games, Links on Jun 29th, 2010 No Comments »
A few more links for general education and enjoyment: More good advice from Games Industry Mentor, Carlos Baena does a recap of some of his animation writings, how to animate a 2D platform game with Earthworm Jim, and Temple of the Seven Camels still golden.
Posted in Film, Games, Writing on Jun 5th, 2010 No Comments »
It occurred to me recently why I don’t generally like sci-fi that much, and conversely why I love a good historical setting. I want a world I can believe in, that subtle sense that these places are real, and you could go there if only you could charter a plane, or a time machine… Sci-fi [...]
Posted in Art, Games, Links on May 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Worth checking out: Shaylyn Hamm creates a female cast for TF2, Ken Robinson talks about creativity and education, and Batman likes videogames.
Posted in Design, Games, Guppy on May 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Worked some more on the swimming game. It has random rock formations and ambient friendly fish now…
Posted in Games on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
I’m not in the habit of plugging sites that sell things, but I’m willing to make an exception for the re-release of one of my favourite games of all time on GOG.com: Appeal’s Outcast, for $5,99… Seriously, get this game. There still hasn’t been an open world adventure quite like it.
Three years since I moved to France this month! Also, more nifty links: Good animation advice from Bobby Pontillas on breathing, some wonderful art of pixels and Wild Things, moving drawings at the Pencil Test Depot, … and notes, slides, and other materials from GDC…
And the Oscar for best use of gaming nostalgia goes to… P I X E L S
Posted in Animation, Design, Games, Ianim on Mar 22nd, 2010 1 Comment »
For the next couple of weeks I’ll be doing a series of posts on the use of interactive animation in a number of notable games… This week, Gothic. I suggested recently that games could show skill progression in the movement of the player, making the animation more elegant as you level up, but some games [...]