Browsing the archives for the Photography category

Gaming World: It is my first anniversary

Ahh, finally back from the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. About halfway through the conference I stumbled upon the realization that it is my “Gaming Birthday;” right about this time in 2009 I wrote an article about how GDC Inspired me to make my first game. I’ve done a fairly in-depth post-mortem of 2009, [...]

0 Comments

Shots from Across the Street

There’s an awesome park across the street from my place; nice little hill covered with plants and trees. I often take my camera out there but haven’t uploaded any photos from my excursions yet. This here is one of my favorite trees on the place. It’s sitting right near the top and stands fairly alone, [...]

0 Comments

The Platformer

OK, here’s something I really hate. Coding how a player moves. It turns out there’s a lot of intricate guesswork going on behind the scenes of most platformers. For instance, did you know that many platformers change the amount of friction exerted on the player body depending on the current action? Or that bodies accelerate [...]

0 Comments

A Social Weekend

Took some pictures on my crazy weekend! Feel free to watch my Flickr photostream for more great shots like the one to the left there. I think it would look fabulous up against a black backdrop. I’ve been busy just being social – spent the weekend in Nanaimo with some new friends and doing some [...]

0 Comments

Photo-graphing

To help document the year to come, I’ve acquired myself a new camera. It’s a proper Digital SLR with a few lenses – and I’ve been soaking up the last few weeks with taking shots in my spare time. Not much else going on. I like to think I’m taking some really neat shots though! [...]

0 Comments