Mean Machine Dean Podcast!
I had the pleasure of speaking in depth about my career in the games industry with the awesome Dean from the Mean Machine Dean Podcast recorded recently with my lockdown hair and wannabe Gandalf (feeling) beard! Oh and my trusty ZZap! 64 mug courtesy of my ol’mate at Fusion RetroBook Chris Wilkins.
Fusion Magazine – Issue #6
Before I start this little post about what this little post is all about, can I ask if you would check out Fusion Magazine , you’ll understand why in minute. All I’ll say is it’s a rather nifty publication I’ve been honoured to have written for in the past, put together by some really talented […]
OCR from a screen grab? Why would you want that? Ahh….Ok.
As development on Blobbit Push draws to an end there’s a list of things that need fixing, sorting and tweaking before the game can be published. One of ‘these things’ is to compile a list of all the animations we’re using for the front end UI. Stuff like level select, pause menu, you get the […]
Revisting the Sensible Golf Editor Part 2
Back in 2011 whilst browsing through some of my art archives I found a disc image called “Sensible Golf Editor”. Of course I simple had to try it out even if I couldn’t remember how the thing actually worked! Well it was a great idea at the time but I just couldn’t remember what keys […]
Seams… but no Mrs Slocombe..
As a relative of newbie who is still learning the ropes with all this 3D modelling, texturing and animating malarkey (yes I’m so 2D I even have a travelator in my home instead of stairs), I have discovered that in order to make a UV Map fit like a glove without an obvious stretch or […]
Ahh so that’s what the ‘d’ means!
‘Rot’ or ‘DRot’ what the ?? Ahh now I know! Rot is an absolute value overiding the object’s values and DRot is added to the current value! Ta da! Same applies to scale too. Stars are now converted to use Drot D?? where applicable!
Animation Time Offset is my friend!
Animating what seems like a zillion and one stars is not a desirable way to pass the day so I was so pleased to discover the magic animation time offset setting in Blender. After animating one star I can now link to it from a duplicate, change the offset of the new one and wayhey […]
Blobbit sprite conversion
Rather than just do a quick conversion job resulting in a load of blurred undefined sprites I’ve been adding extra glow and opacity to some of them. When we did the original game the sprites were for the most part quite old school and were drawn in 8bit with no alpha channel data. Not bad […]
Game developer fuel
Another mug or five.
