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I intend to leave the house for the... Rated R Show Fundraising Party
This year has been crazy busy so far, and this month is proving to be exra busy since I'm finishing up the preproduction phase of Guerrilla Gardening, but I will be leaving the house for the Rated R Show fundrasing party!
My sister biokitten and Eric "Korean Thunder" Kim have been organizing the show which is looking to be pretty fantastic, and the ( Read more... ) -
New game!
I've released an early version of my new game Cephalopods Co-op Cottage Defence along with the rest of the games from the Artsy Games Incubator round 4. It still needs sound to be implemented but despite that it's pretty damn playable. I've been testing versions of it with several people (it's 2 player co-op) and many times have ended up playing " ( Read more... ) -
Hand Eye Society + Artsy Games Incubator + Spooky Squid Games = Awesome Thursday Night
Yes I'm posting another event. I'd post about my life but honestly other then trying to get some morning glories to grow in planters on my porch my life is entirely consumed with working on the game and Toronto game event stuff.... on that note:
I'm organizing the Hand Eye Society Social this Thursday, it's going to have games from the Artsy Games ( Read more... ) -
Toronto Indie Game Jam Arcade is Tonight!
Come play some indie games I worked on...likely with other people you know! Hell, there will be over 30 games there, I suppose you can play them too!
Direction to the event are on the TOJam page: www.tojam.ca/stuff/2009_tojam4_arcade.asp
It will be awesome! How awesome you ask? As awesome as the text in this title screen for Steam Ponk (playable ( Read more... ) -
Whoo I went Guerrilla Gardening!
The Toronto Public Space Committee organized some guerrilla gardening for the west end and I took the chance to finally get my fingers dirty and help out. Turns out it was at the end of my street! Bonus!
Here are photos!
Also I submitted Cephalopods and a new build of the GG Prototype to Indiecade late last night... my internal clock is in -
TOJam 4 Video!
For anyone who's interested in what the Toronto Indie Game Developement Jam is like or just how I spent my weekend, here's short doc I made of the event:
There's also a great writup of the event on the Torontoist
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TOJam!!!! (also scott pilgrim)
First day of the the Toronto Indie Game Jam, we have a large team (6 of us) and two games to make... in less then 3 days.
Game number one is a pinball \ tank game variant in flash where you toss a tank around a pinball table, the twist is that you can also fire at targets with your cannon by mouse aiming while spinning through the air.
The second ( Read more... ) -
Night of the living dev... video.
I'm part way into writing a monster friends only GDC post, but figured I'd give everyone a heads up that the Guerrilla Gardening Dev Blog has a new development video online if you all wanna check it out ( Read more... ) -
Dropping trees and dropping knowledge....
..and apparently listening to too much old school rap ;)
I just posted the newest Dev Vid to youtube and thought I'd share.
I've also been posting fairly regularly on the development blog, I'm find seeing all the little bits of work going into the game and blog in the last few weeks a good mental prep for GDC next week, which I'm approaching with a ( Read more... ) -
You know you've found a good programmer when...
We're getting down to the final crunch getting Guerrilla Gardening ready to show at GDC. Today Andrew set up his laptop and started working while I was busy colouring a portrait of Molly that Eric drew awhile back. Around 15 minutes in, he taps my shoulder and points at the screen... he'd implemented a full working particle system* for pollen in ( Read more... )
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