Five photos from Trip Advisor
March 29th, 2014
Five images from Erotic Draw
March 4th, 2014
Discarded Diagrams
February 1st, 2014A new blog project:
discardeddiagrams.tumblr.com (gone)
ryliejamesthomas.net/discardeddiagrams/ (archive)
I have a box of books, I think all thrown away by RMIT libraries, and I’m going through and scanning all the interesting diagrams / technical drawings / and such.
VueScan is a really neat program if you have an ‘obsolete’ scanner you want to get working.
And XKit is a massive time saver if you are doing a lot of Tumblr stuff, especially tagging.
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January 23rd, 2014
There is a blog somewhere that posts film still collections like these, but I’ve lost track of it. I can’t remember what the first film is.
2023 edit: Made a wiki page: Similar Images
Wall
January 12th, 2014I’ve had to put Video Works Catalogue on hold for a bit. The other day my current approach to organising the video sequences bit a wall when I learned that Youtube playlists can’t hold more than 200 videos. So I guess I have to not rely on Youtube to organise the clips (though still rely on it to store them), and will have to recategorise everything everything (for, what, the fourth time?).
April 2014 update: created a new way to generate ‘playlists’ without using Youtube’s system, but Google doesn’t like the long URLs it generates. Back to the drawing board!, but will probably resume uploading things to it soon.
Fame
January 7th, 2014I came across a couple of mentions of my game 100 Free Assets the other day. The first is a video of someone playing it on Youtube, which led me to do a bit of proper Googling. That turned up the linked French website which says some nice things (Google Translate handles it pretty well, as best I can tell). Before these two it was featured on freeindiegam.es. It’s strange hearing a stranger say your full name on Youtube.
And a while back I was directed to this German video of another game of mine, Castlevania 10. They seem to quite like it, though got stuck after the first boss (of three). Both this videos gave me big smiles, which I’ve never got from people looking at my work in galleries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyCcAKO33pI?start=456 (gone)
Unfortunately, because you now need a Google+ account to make Youtube comments, I can’t actually have any interaction with the makers of these videos.
Great news
December 27th, 2013
Lawrence Street
December 27th, 2013Christmas things
December 27th, 2013I made two Christmas-related games. Click on their titles to play them in your browser.
IO SATVRNALIA! is a big mess where nothing went right. You play as the paintings of Saturn by Goya and Rubens running around an incorrectly rendered recreation of the Roman Forum, and miming baby eating. After the initial loading it will take a while for the game to start, but it will! Downloadable versions for PC, OSX, and Linux are here.
Merry Catemitesmas is definitely the most time I’ve spent on one game. It was made for a Kris Kringle event at Glorious Trainwrecks, where I drew thecatamites, whose games I really like, so I put a lot of work into it. We made lists of elements we might like to see/play, though I wasn’t able to include as many as I wish. A lot went wrong, but I learnt a lot about Unity 3D too. There are four areas to find, but three are apparently well hidden, which is satisfying.
December 12th, 2013
I’ve been making more of these types of things over the last couple of days, and these are the two I’m happiest with. I’m looking forward to playing more of Worlds: a near-abandoned mid-90s virtual chat room thing with a lot of now-broken corporate advertising embedded.