November 14, 2007
I am the sole application developer in a company full of building developers, and such hands-oney people, it's my job to fulfil all the rolls that are required in the software lifecycle. As the company is getting more confident of my ability to meet their specific needs, they are taking on more adv…
September 03, 2007
Was having a play round with Simpsonize Me and made one of my wife and me at the Kwik-e-mart. Really just a bit of fun, take a look
August 17, 2007
Thought I'd add in another movie, while I'm still up on the movie making stint. Here's a gameplay movie of what we managed to get working in Total Dominion. It may look like crap, but it did take a year of our time.
Since I can't embed the youtube stuff here: ">Click here
Again cudos go out to the…
Since I can't embed the youtube stuff here: ">Click here
Again cudos go out to the…
August 16, 2007
I managed to find an app to make videos of my game. The quality is kind of crappy, but I think it is mostly due to some double compression along the way. I recorded it with GameCam, then uploaded it to YouTube to save the bandwidth on my website :).
">Click here to view the video
">Click here to view the video
August 15, 2007
I've been off the air for a while, mostly due to another large dose of 'meh'. Anyhow, I just did a little more on Scarlett's Treasure.
I have made Ladder sprites work somewhat more intuitvley. You can now climb up and down the ladder, rather than just sort of flying through it.
I have also got the …
I have made Ladder sprites work somewhat more intuitvley. You can now climb up and down the ladder, rather than just sort of flying through it.
I have also got the …
April 30, 2007
Just a little something I thought up in the shower this morning.
Name: Alpha Flyer
Synopsis
You are a pilot, who has recently acquired a top of the line personal space craft, the "alpha flyer". With terrorists controling most of your sector, you take it apon yourself to rid the sector of the viscous t…
Name: Alpha Flyer
Synopsis
You are a pilot, who has recently acquired a top of the line personal space craft, the "alpha flyer". With terrorists controling most of your sector, you take it apon yourself to rid the sector of the viscous t…
April 11, 2007
I've made the decision to try out a psychologist for this depression thing. I'm really not sure what will come of it, but I did get to do a couple of those nifty answer the multiple choice question thingamies.
The first one gave the psychologist an indication of the depression levels involved, and …
The first one gave the psychologist an indication of the depression levels involved, and …
March 29, 2007
It hardly seems like it's been a year since our daughter was born, and died. We made a cake for Scarlett's first birthday, and anniversary. Here's a couple of piccs..
Pink marble cake for Scarlett's 1st birthday
We went and decorated her grave with pink flowers, and had some cake with her.
Angel's fo…
Pink marble cake for Scarlett's 1st birthday
We went and decorated her grave with pink flowers, and had some cake with her.
Angel's fo…
March 05, 2007
I've been wondering lately if a change of tac is neccessary. I appear to be getting burnt out in my current job, and have no real way of recovering from the problems that I am having here. It is really getting so bad that I sit in front of my computer for 8 hours a day, staring at the screen doing …
March 01, 2007
If you read my blog enough, you would probably realize that I seem to come up with alot of idears for games or tools or just general crap. I usually start a small project based on testing out my theory, and end up with a prototype style model (ie. crappy minimal implementation). Some of these proto…
February 28, 2007
Ok, so as to keep you all not guessing at what happens next after kissing the frog.. here's what I have so far:
1) Big Bubble Belching Bullfrog (see previous entry)
2) Shower Big Bubble Belching Bullfrog with kisses (also previous entry)
3) Big Bubble Belching Bullfrog goes pop (see below)
4) Prince of…
1) Big Bubble Belching Bullfrog (see previous entry)
2) Shower Big Bubble Belching Bullfrog with kisses (also previous entry)
3) Big Bubble Belching Bullfrog goes pop (see below)
4) Prince of…
February 21, 2007
One genuine, bubble belching, massively huge frog:
Add one girl showering said frog with kisses:
One does not need to see what happens next, (which is good, cause I haven't written it yet).
Add one girl showering said frog with kisses:
One does not need to see what happens next, (which is good, cause I haven't written it yet).
February 19, 2007
Started work on the frog boss for Scarlett's Treasiure. I'm not an artist, but that's a pretty cool frog imho.
February 15, 2007
During the extended downtime that GameDev had recently, I decided to write and implement my own blogging tool on my website. So if you want a look my derangingly boring life over the last couple of week, you can go there.
I also managed to make some progress on Scarlett's Treasure during that time..…
I also managed to make some progress on Scarlett's Treasure during that time..…
January 08, 2007
So, continuing on, and trying to make some more bits for Scarlett's treasure, I have managed to get myself into a little animation. With the help of this article, I was able to create a kinda believable walk cycle for my main toon.
And, after a 4 hour stint of eye tingling pixel artistry with Graphi…
And, after a 4 hour stint of eye tingling pixel artistry with Graphi…
January 07, 2007
Dusted off one of the books off my bookshelf, and read up a little on Inverse Kinematics as a follow up to the idear that I presented in my last post, and thought it would be a good test to try this out in a simplified 2d environment prior to going the whole hog on a fully integrated 3d application…
January 03, 2007
During my epic sunday morning tv watching sessions, I have been 'observing' some of the 3d style cartoons that have been popping up lately, I realised that the people making these shows must be using some kind of tool kit to produce these shows.
I noticed that all of these new cartoons seemed to ha…
I noticed that all of these new cartoons seemed to ha…
January 02, 2007
Once again tinkering with my marvelous MS Paint skills, I have come up with a nifty looking logo for my website.
Obviously, it was inspired by circuitboard patterns, and it draws the two initials of Akatimmeah Games (AG) within the pattern. It is a flat two-color pattern (foreground / background), w…
Obviously, it was inspired by circuitboard patterns, and it draws the two initials of Akatimmeah Games (AG) within the pattern. It is a flat two-color pattern (foreground / background), w…
January 01, 2007
Well, over the hoildays, Scarlett's Treasure has progressed a little. I decided to use C# to make a simple level editor. Here's a screenie:
December 19, 2006
Came up with a few good idears in the wee small hours of the morning today. I was thinking about some idears for a pda platformer type game, and think that I may have just passed the slow point for designing "Scarlett's Tresure".
I've decided to make it a sort of mini platformer type game, along th…
I've decided to make it a sort of mini platformer type game, along th…
December 16, 2006
Made some rumballs by combining a few recipies togeather today. They are great, and extreemly alcoholic, recepie below:
Dry Ingredients:
250g Packet of Scotch Finger biscuits (or shortbread biskuts)
1/2 cup Dessicated Coconut
1/2 cup Almond Meal (or 1/2 cup of well blended nuts)
2 Tablespoons Cocoa
1 cup…
Dry Ingredients:
250g Packet of Scotch Finger biscuits (or shortbread biskuts)
1/2 cup Dessicated Coconut
1/2 cup Almond Meal (or 1/2 cup of well blended nuts)
2 Tablespoons Cocoa
1 cup…
November 16, 2006
Tried putting a shot of espresso into my Coke today, with a big mess and some amusing results. The taste wasn't too bad, and I can imagine that the caffine hit would be rather good too. It looks as though the bubbles in the coke didn't like staying in there after I put the shot in, and as a result …
November 05, 2006
Well, aparently I may have developed myself a good dose of Major depressive disorder. After about 3 months the drugs they gave me seem to be having a small effect but still not back to my usual crappy self. I say I'd be about 30% of normal going by the workload that I am completing per day.
Anyone …
Anyone …
October 26, 2006
I recently thought up a new game idear, and will start some documentaiton on it. It's kind of a trading card game similar to "Magic: The Gathering", but entirely computer based.
I have thought out a fairly novel way of getting the actual game mechanics down before writing a single line of code. Basi…
I have thought out a fairly novel way of getting the actual game mechanics down before writing a single line of code. Basi…
October 12, 2006
We are currently making a toybox to hold the things that we have collected for Scarlett. Here are some photos below:
September 25, 2006
Well, I guess I should explain how my little sound synthesizer work, considering that I have put it here for the world to see.
How it works
The SynthGraph application is kind of a mixture between a synthesizer (ie one of those keyboard things with all the buttons and dials), and a scene graph (you k…
How it works
The SynthGraph application is kind of a mixture between a synthesizer (ie one of those keyboard things with all the buttons and dials), and a scene graph (you k…
September 25, 2006
So, I've been thinking that there are plenty of places out there that you can get your art assets and stuff done, including lots of tools tutorials, and whatnot, but very few places that you can obtain other assets, such as sound assets.
The basis of this research is really from what I have found b…
The basis of this research is really from what I have found b…
September 20, 2006
Inspired by the idear of making an automated bot (from my last post), I made a program that will record keystrokes and send them to your desired application at regular intervals. I believe that it would work for WoW, but I still wouldn't use it for automatic playing for a couple of reasons. 1) I do…
September 18, 2006
Random thought:
Suppose I was to develop a bot that would automatically level a World of Warcraft character for me. Would I be in breach of the licence agreement which prohibits "third party software"? considering that I am one of the two parties that entered into the contract, would that not in fac…
Suppose I was to develop a bot that would automatically level a World of Warcraft character for me. Would I be in breach of the licence agreement which prohibits "third party software"? considering that I am one of the two parties that entered into the contract, would that not in fac…
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