As someone who grew up with the TV movie versions of Spider Man, the Hulk, even Batman *KA-POW*, I have to wax poetic on just where the reboots of these beloved heroes are headed. I mean, back in the 80’s it was almost GUARARNTEED that any move that came out with a superhero in it [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Conversational death….
Friday, January 23, 2009
I was never a scintillating conversationalist. For one thing, I am the sort of geek who would actually find a way to use “scintillating” in a conversation. I write like I speak, so if you are having trouble slogging through my prose here, I suspect talking to me in person would be equally trying.
I have [...]
BRING IT ON!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
HA! Client just called. Needs four screenshots from a mobile title (think 176×208 pixels) jumped up to over 900×600pixels for print. The samples I have are all way lossy .jpegs. They need them by 8pm. Each image is basically going to need a total reconstruct, there are NO high-res assets available.
BRING IT ON BAYBEE! As [...]
Oh my, THAT’s unfortunate….
Monday, January 19, 2009
OOoof. Are you familiar with Spore? You know how all the critters you create end up in the Sporepedia? To be used by the game elsewhere and elsewhen to populate worlds?
My uber-advanced alien civilization just got its butt kicked out by one of my kids critters.
DOH!
Neural plasticity
Saturday, January 17, 2009
It’s a wonderful thing, this adaptivity of the human brain. My oldest child (7) has been a FPS player since he was 4. He picked up very quickly on how to navigate a virtual environment, and FPS’es have been his preferred gametype (although now that he can read well, he seems to be developing an [...]
