Archive for December, 2009

Wouldn’t you like to be a Petter too?

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Just a quick note that the amazing Dr. Petter has released an alpha version of sculptris, an awesome freeware 3D sculpting tool. I used it to make this nifty old man face in about 5 minutes, just playing around with the default settings and brush, and just using my mouse. Cool stuff!
Dr. Petter is [...]

That Cactus kid ain’t got nothin’ on me!

Friday, December 11th, 2009

The other night I noticed that one of the things listed on my projects page pointed to a dead link, so I fixed that. In the process, however, I started looking at some of my old, abandoned projects, and that got me thinking about how cool I think it is that Konjak has a [...]

The worm… the spice… is there a connection?

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

So… uh… Microsoft is starting the next Dream Build Play competition a little early, and this time it’s sponsored by Old Spice, with a separate, larger grand prize if you make an advergame for Old Spice. Wacky. But it means they can double their prize money and prize categories, so I guess that’s good [...]

Slidin’ away…

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Somewhere along the line, I developed a certain weakness for sliding-block puzzles.
I’m not quite sure how it happened, honestly; Apple’s bundled Puzzle desktop accessory always drove me nuts, and I never bothered to finish the World’s Hardest Trick the first time around. Yet somewhere between gnotski during Computational Mathematics lectures and a surprisingly high-quality implementation [...]