Get very frustrated you can’t think of anything interesting to write about. Discard several ideas as not interesting enough to write about. Wait, is that one interesting? Ah, you’ve probably written about it before. It sounds familiar, you’ve definitely thought…
The last week or so has been a bit odd as I’ve found myself, at the age of 36, finally getting into Minecraft for the first time. I suppose this is an appropriate time to get started – if we’re…
Well this last month didn’t go quite the way I’d hoped! In the greater scope of the game, I’m basically now exactly where I was a month ago: The intro isn’t done, I still need to do it, and once…
There’s no such thing as a line. Lines are wholly conceptual. They are a thing that we perceive rather than a thing that exists. The lines that we see emerge wherever we perceive a division between one thing and another…
There’s always a gap between the world we perceive and the world as it is, and we’ll never be able to measure how wide it is. There’s a distance between the person we know and our knowledge of the person,…
Game graphics have increasingly emphasized their ability to capture fine detail – details such as skin texture, fine creases in fabric, and ornate stone and metalwork. We’ve increased poly count, we’ve gone from flat textures to bump maps to normal…
Well, it seems as though we’re going to be stuck inside for a while. The situation is pretty scary, but moment-to-moment this frankly doesn’t represent much of a change in my life. However, like the clouds of smoke that wash…
When we first wish to become artists, it’s usually because we are inspired by the art of others. We see, play, read, and a spark is ignited, and we want more – not just more of the world they have…
As mentioned in the previous post, I spent the last month working on a side project. For most of this time, this project was really the only thing on my plate: Every day, I had one thing to do, and…
For the past month, I’ve been working on my entry to the Idle Thumbs community game jam, Wizard Jam X. This is the final Wizard Jam, due to the Idle Thumbs podcast going into a long-term hiatus from which it…
