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Red vs Blue
I saw someone asking about the convention of red vs blue in videogames so I ended up looking up some stuff. I guessed there would be precedent in wargaming, and I found that red and blue armies are mentioned in … Continue reading
Landscape Gardening in Relation to Video Game Level Design
At the end of an earlier post where I was curious about the history of leading lines, I mentioned I might read The Education of the Eye by Peter de Bolla. I did read it. I had gone in expecting … Continue reading
Party Business Supreme
Party Business Supreme is now available on Steam, itch.io and Gamejolt. Trailer is up on Youtube. It is cribbing heavily off of Domino’s App Feat Hatsune Miku, plus some cake decorating ideas from Cake Wrecks.
Rule of thirds?
A tangent I came upon during my previous attempt at tracing the history of “leading lines” is the “rule of thirds.” I think in general, it appeals to me to ask, “Where do these visual composition rules come from?” The … Continue reading
Cubey vs. the Universe
Recently released this game, Cubey vs. the Universe, on itch.io. It’s a puzzle game where you roll a cube person and need to match the faces of the cube to move. It’s an improved version of an old game I … Continue reading
Camera projection matrix
I posted a gist on GitHub where I was playing with modifying the projection matrix for the camera in Unity. For background, a matrix is basically a grid of numbers. A vector is a series of numbers. And you can … Continue reading
History of “leading lines?”
Some recent video game discourse over “leading lines” got me thinking about what is the history of the concept? Obviously it was a thing in photography and/or painting before it was ever used in video games, but for how long? … Continue reading
Joystick accuracy test
I got a few people to run a program I made to test their accuracy with the thumbstick on a gamepad. What kicked off this train of thought, was I was considering radial UI as an interface. How many options … Continue reading
Paintings
A collection of paintings I’ve been doing on a general theme. I figured I’d put them up here. I hadn’t done much physical painting really. I drew a lot but just with ink or pencil, so no colour. I made … Continue reading