Ian has posted his tileset in the forum.

Download link.

Jess has posted the recipe in the forum.

I said I'd do it.

Some people ask the question with a cake or a ring. Possibly even a webcomic, power armor or a pile of corpses... Me, I asked with a pixel side-scrolling video game.

As Dom has told me, the way you ask should be true to who you are. Me, I make video games. Hell, I get paid to do it supposedly. So when I asked Jes to marry me, I had spent the last year secretly making a little 8bit game for her. An hour here, an hour there, I slowly put it together in cover of night. It worked out great. Well... it would have been better had the final boss not glitched and got stuck in a wall. ( -_-)

Anyway, here's some more shots of the game. (I will not post a copy of it online. It was made for an audience of one.)




Oh, this had nothing to do with the Bacon Ice Cream, by the way. That's just awesome on it's own.

EDIT: Yeah, the hud is totally stolen from Megaman Z. Should give you an idea of how the game controls.

If you're wondering about the short rants lately, we seem to be having server trouble at the moment, which prevents me from uploading files.

Other ones.

Actually, I think that's a PSX Dual Shock controller in the commercial.

S'all done.

Matt got a script to me. Now drawing.

It's my fault this time. Didn't come up with anything funny.

The shirt in the above comic was gift from Dave Stanworth. One day I may wear it in public.

Fanime was a good con. Still, cons wear us the hell out. For one thing, my body can't run on grease and sugar for a whole weekend anymore.

First up, Matt and I will be setting up shop at Fanime this weekend. If you feel like swinging buy and sharing a story, feel free. I will most likely doing my best not to appear socially awkward while Matt surfs on his iPhone. I'll bring my usual sketchpad to do some doodlings.

Second, I'm not sure if Matt really intended for the above comic to happen. But any chance to draw a random bear... well, can't resist. Kinda came out sorta camel like though.

Third, as it has been mentioned, I work at Three Rings. As the job page suggests, we're looking for a 2d/3d artist. Particularly with strong diffuse map skills with a focus of low-poly. If you can honestly look at your own work and feel it can stand toe-to-toe with other similar spec'd, modern games, I want to see your portfolio. Honestly, I'm more interested in applicants with strong, basic art skills as compared to industry experience. However, I don't make the hiring call.

I can be reached through ian(a)threerings.net.

I've done an article I'm pretty happy with over at Kwanzoo.

I don't think I'll ever go back to newspaper work, but it's good to be doing some reporting again.

Please wait.