Posted in Games, Work on Nov 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
1UP has a great feature on a project I worked on (briefly) at Arkane before it was cancelled. A rare look at a game that was not to be. There’s a lot of wasted work in the games industry even on titles that do make it out, but you don’t usually hear about the ones [...]
Posted in Art, Games, Links on Oct 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Some of these are old but didn’t get around to posting them before: Seven Camels ponders tone and colour, Chris Hecker et al argue in favour of brevity, Cameron Fielding talks of work abroad, and Derek Yu says you should finish your game.
Posted in Design, Games, Guppy on Sep 8th, 2010 No Comments »
Made another update to my game prototype. The rocks look a little nicer now, though I’m leaving the rest of the graphics alone for the time being. Various gameplay additions also, including the recording of hi-scores…
Posted in Animation, Design, Games, Ianim on Sep 5th, 2010 No Comments »
A series of posts on the use of interactive animation in games … Next: Red Dead Redemption Last post I talked about proximity as a gameplay device. Red Dead is another game that does some interesting things with this… I was somewhere in Mexico doing odd jobs for The Resistance, when ‘man of the people’ [...]
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, Science 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…
