nooskewl, games, and me

Archive for June, 2008

GraphicsGale

Jun 30th 2008Miskellaneous

So I was working on a flag animation last night, when the GIMP decided to hang and lose all my work. It wasn’t the first time that happened. Its sad because I really like the GIMP. I hope they add an autosave feature in the future. In the meantime I went looking for other graphics [...]

I can do better than that…

Jun 27th 2008nooskewl

I guess being very small may help you as a pixel artist, since the pixels will look much bigger. At least microcat seems to have had some good advice on my castle I posted earlier. Here is a progression of 6 shots taken at each stage of improving the castle:

Busy summer

Jun 27th 2008nooskewl

It seems I’m the only one who has much time to devote to “Operation FrozenEagle” at the moment. I did my best to draw up some tiles, what do you think?: Jacob says the outlines are too strong, and I trust his judgement, yet I will go on making mediocre tiles until someone else gets [...]

Jacob, where are you?

Jun 22nd 2008Miskellaneous

I was getting tired of manually checking my email all day, so I wrote a little Java tray app that checks it for me. Check it out!

Orly?

Jun 20th 2008Miskellaneous

From usaweekend.com: “In a recent Canadian study, subjects who ate sauce rich in capsaicin ate about 200 fewer calories in the following three hours than those who didn’t eat the sauce.” So, people who have already eaten eat less than those who haven’t?! Amazing discovery XD. (OK, it’s an old article, but still :{)>)

Vapourware

Jun 20th 2008nooskewl

Currently we have a 4 man team working on a game that I will not name at the moment. We are still in the “early” stages of development (well, we have a very nice base to work with now, we just need more content). I would hate very much for this project to become vapourware, [...]

nooskewl developer blogs

Jun 20th 2008nooskewl

I thought it might be fun and interesting for some people to see the progress we’re making on our latest projects, so I set up a blog for myself and am going to encourage the other team members to put one here too. Now, off to make some progress so I have something to blog [...]