An idea which many artists at first rebel against, but are generally forced to accede to, is that of constraints breeding creativity. It can be galling, to one who considers themselves creative, to admit to all the confusion and terror…
I think a lot about what’s right. Not necessarily what is moral, just, factual, or ethical – though frequently those as well – but what fits, what makes sense, what’s appropriate, what’s useful. I think as much about what I…
When I can stand to, I think about the future. Seldom the future of the world at large – that’s entirely too complicated and distressing right now, although I do try to stay aware of opportunities to do what I…
Well, I’m done with the sprite shader project – sort of! As you may have noticed, I haven’t announced its release on the Unity Asset Store or, indeed, anywhere. This is because while I did indeed finish the project itself…
As I’ve written about extensively for the last few months, I’m currently in the process of creating a tool to go on the Unity Asset Store. Every tool carries within it a set of standards and expectations. Sure, everyone knows…
Games have a weird relationship with morality. For a while, many were including ham-fisted ‘morality systems’ – absurd contrivances where you were presented with two exaggerated choices, choosing between senseless slaughter and saintly forgiveness, and then assigned to be good…
The ‘roguelike’ genre started, appropriately enough, with the game ‘Rogue’ in the year 1980. Rogue was an appealing but simplistic game, a primitive ASCII-based RPG. Soon more robust imitators came along, extrapolating on its mechanics to make more complex worlds,…
As usual, everything has taken longer than expected. I started with creating the blur and outline effects. There are lots of tutorials and examples for effects like this out there, but none of them were entirely suitable – they tended…
The study of game design is, to a significant degree, the study of education. Much as the joy of gameplay lies in the sensation of learning and practicing, the skill of creating that joy in others is similar to that…
While as an artist I am generally fascinated with the study of technique, and the methods of self-improvement necessary to attain it, I find myself less and less interested in art which exists solely or primarily to be a showcase…
