Five shades of gray and some little color accents that I may or may not keep. I've always had a fascination for clock towers, and I'm happy to report that nothing has changed.
Showing posts with label video game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video game. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Like Grains of Sand
Five shades of gray and some little color accents that I may or may not keep. I've always had a fascination for clock towers, and I'm happy to report that nothing has changed.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
A Thousand Miles Apart
Shannon and I have been in a long-term relationship for almost two years now - I live
in Kansas, she lives in Utah. We meet every few months, but the
distance is still hard to deal with.
Video games have had a huge part in our relationship, allowing us to
play together even when we can't be together. This is what I did for
Valentine's Day this year.
The link goes to a download page for a game I spent the past few sleepless nights making. It features her in Utah and me in Kansas, trying to make it to Colorado (the state between us).
You can download it and give it a try here: http://goo.gl/SEu1Pd
The link goes to a download page for a game I spent the past few sleepless nights making. It features her in Utah and me in Kansas, trying to make it to Colorado (the state between us).
You can download it and give it a try here: http://goo.gl/SEu1Pd
I've included the game's closing cinematic after the jump break for anyone who wants to see the final message without playing the game. For everyone else, spoiler warning and Happy Valentine's Day!
Saturday, October 19, 2013
The Adventure Begins!
Here's some stuff for a thing I'm doing!
I was sketching out some pixel sprites, and I liked them so much that I figured I might as well make a game out of them. What kind of game is still sort of up in the air, but I'm leaning towards puzzle-platformer.
The last time I coded a game from scratch was in middle school, so I'll be interested to see if I can still do things. Relearning all this stuff is going to be time-consuming work, and obviously my school work takes precedence, so I have no idea when I'll have this completed!
Stay tuned!
Monday, October 14, 2013
Hey!
Someone - I have no idea who - drew all these lovely little pencil sketches on the table liner at a nearby desk.
So, being a connoisseur of fine doodles and the owner of several pens and markers, I took it upon myself to ink and color one of the more interesting ones.
Again, I didn't draw this, and I have no idea who did, but I certainly enjoyed coloring it in, and I think the finished sketch has a lovely, cartoonish quality to it, and it was fun to translate certain elements into a more color-friendly environment.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Level Caps is Go!
Level Caps, a collaboration between myself an Shannon of "Shan in" fame, is now operational! It's been a long time in the making, from logo work to hat designs to yarn palette selections, but we've done it!
You can peruse our entire selection here, but just as a sample, here are a few of the hats we've already sold!
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Every Expression of Endless Envy
I made a poster in typography! We were given one hour to pick a typeface, come up with a concept, and use freehand marker skills to turn in into a finished poster that displayed five qualities of type anatomy. Naturally my first instinct was to make Pac-man screaming/eating Helvetica Es in a spiral formation.
Naturally.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The Cat's Meow
Excellent news, folks! One of my designs has won the Jinx Unsung Heroes Contest in no small part due to everyone who supported this design by voting, who I'd like to thank profusely. Honestly I was under the impression that this was one of my weakest designs. It was the last one I put together, and I actually had a full redesign planned for it. I don't have the file on me, but I'll have this post edited later on to show what I had in mind.
The fact that it was selected as one of the top ten grand prize winners is still difficult for me to believe, in part because of all the other incredible designs that won. But I'm not about to complain about the outcome, so hooray!
Friday, June 7, 2013
Singing the Songs of the Unsung
They're all up for voting! Not totally sure how that happened, but I'm not complaining. Click each of the icons above to be taken to the voting page for that design. Vote well, vote often!
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Safe and Sound
I've been busy with class, but so far it seems like there are a lot of interesting things going on in these classes. I'm already working on some neat papercraft stuff in Design 3D that I'll probably have ready to post sometime today, but for now let's focus on the kitty drawings.
Ocelots in Minecraft scare creepers away, and this seemed like a nice, soft approach to this vicious game of avoidance and explosions. Also, I finally got my designs on the proper submission template and submitted them. There's a lot of weird stuff going on with Jinx's qualification process right now (for my three designs I've received three letters of rejection and two letters of acceptance) so I'll let you know when voting officially starts and I know exactly what's going on.
Here are my other two entries in proper t-shirt form. Kinda bums me out that they had such a limited selection of colors, but they all stand on their own.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Creature of the Deep
Avast! Another entry to the Jinx Unsung Heroes of Minecraft contest! This one's a squid, and I love it for so many reasons. It has a pixel aesthetic that compliments the game, it turns the unobtrusive li'l squid into a ferocious beast, and the ship itself is just all sorts of cool.
Working on the ocelot now, and I might have a design before the end of today. I don't think I'll have time or creativity enough to do all ten of the featured mobs, but I don't see any reason not to try.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Super Happy Funtime Fungus Cow Go!
J!NX is putting on another design contest, The Unsung Heroes of Minecraft. They're asking for t-shirts designed around ghasts, squids, wolves, enderdragons, ocelots, blaze, sheep, iron golems, or mooshrooms, which all seem like pretty random characters to group together, but whatever.
The deadline's June 3rd, and I've spent the last few days working on a few submissions. This is the first one I've completed, a li'l Japanese mooshroom. The text under him just says "Mushroom Cow."
I made the distressed t-shirt overlay myself and I'm really proud of how it turned out. Makes it feel like an old thrift-store purchase. Adds character. Yeah.
I've got a squid design in the works, so I'll probably post that one tomorrow.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Expy
A New PVP Game about Improving Yourself
Downloads
Expy is a game that allows you to grow as an individual through learning new things, practicing your skills, and senselessly killing your opponents.
The concept is simple and builds upon a core mechanic of Minecraft: that of gaining experience. For every five levels of experience you gain, you'll unlock new abilities, such as increased mining speed or strength. The first player to make it to level 50 wins!
Expy is a stand-alone set of command blocks and piston gadgets neatly packed into a small box that can be imported to and played on your favorite custom maps or in a randomly generated world. Expy puts a dynamic new spin on the way Minecraft is played, creating a fun competitive experience that you can enjoy with your friends. Or, if you prefer a solo challenge, see where your journey of self improvement takes you.
Expy is available now for download, as a schematic file ready to be placed in your favorite world or pre-placed in three randomly-generated environments. Try it today!
Downloads
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Give it Time
A work in progress for a Minecraft game I'm working on. It's similar to Capture the Sword in that it's a two-team invasion game, but it's got a lot of fundamental differences in play style. I'll be making a post about the official rules and all that as soon as I get the game finished, which shouldn't be long now.
This clock tower took me a crazy amount of time to make and is one of my favorite builds in Minecraft currently, so I'm just going to gush about it for a bit here:
The tower is 125 meters tall, just a bit shorter than the Great Pyramid of Giza. It has ten floors, including a lobby, a gallery, a balcony, a ballroom, a storage deck, a machine room, a wiring bay, and an observation deck. A lot of the inspiration for the design interior and exterior was taken from Gothic architecture.
The clock is fully functional. To speak a bit more to the technical side of Minecraft, the timing mechanism is powered by an item despawn loop emitting pulses into a ring of hoppers that transports a small amount of sand around in a circle, powering the various comparators and sending a signal up into a series of interconnected redstone wires that either activate or deactivate a lamp, depending on the position in the cycle.
Lights progress once every five minutes and complete a cycle once every hour. There's a clock face on all four sides, which required a lot of wire to hook up to one timing mechanism. Just an unholy amount of wire. (Left: timing mechanism. Right: an unholy amount of wire)
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Capture the Sword 3: Merger Mayhem
It's here! The third installment of the Capture the Sword series has arrived! I took a radically different direction with the level design for this one, in that I made it the least radical thing imaginable: an office building.
Minecraft is sort of geared towards a medieval build style. Cobblestone, stone bricks, swords, bows, armor, magic, potions. Building a modern office building was a bit of a challenge, but it was really fun to do, and it turned out pretty well. We've got everything from cars to copiers to desks to potted plants. Here are some pictures, and here's the download link (Mediafire).
Minecraft is sort of geared towards a medieval build style. Cobblestone, stone bricks, swords, bows, armor, magic, potions. Building a modern office building was a bit of a challenge, but it was really fun to do, and it turned out pretty well. We've got everything from cars to copiers to desks to potted plants. Here are some pictures, and here's the download link (Mediafire).
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Capture the Sword 2: Cavern Clash
Remember Capture the Sword? It's a Minecraft PVP game that I created a while back. Think capture the flag, but with swords. I made a new map for it, and it can be downloaded below. And below that there's some nice pictures of what it looks like.
I am good at descriptions of things and stuff.
Download (Mediafire)
I am good at descriptions of things and stuff.
Download (Mediafire)
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Capture the Sword
This is a little outside of my focus in graphic design, but it's been engaging quite a bit of my time as of late and I'm proud of how it turned out, so I figued I'd share it here. It took a bit of world-building and game design but I made a new style of player vs. player game in Minecraft.
Introducing Capture the Sword! Think capture the flag, but with swords.
Download (Mediafire)
One side of the battlefield. The sides are mirror images of each other, with equal ground, resources, weapons.
The gate that marks your entry into hostile territory.
All the resources needed to protect your sword from invaders are available, but some are more difficult to find than others.
The castle will be your base of operations. Massive and winding, you'll have to navigate both safely in one life if you want to win.
The bedrock altar holds the sword of the each castle, and will be the primary target of attack. Guard it with your life or try to fight your way to the enemy's altar.
The team spawn point is located just above the altar, so if you plan to hack and slash your way in, be prepared to deal with the continuous onslaught of vengeful victims.
And of course, there are secrets to be found. Treasures to be unearthed.
And that's Capture the Sword! Download it and try it out!
Download (Mediafire)
Introducing Capture the Sword! Think capture the flag, but with swords.
Download (Mediafire)
Rules and How to Play
The gate that marks your entry into hostile territory.
All the resources needed to protect your sword from invaders are available, but some are more difficult to find than others.
The castle will be your base of operations. Massive and winding, you'll have to navigate both safely in one life if you want to win.
The bedrock altar holds the sword of the each castle, and will be the primary target of attack. Guard it with your life or try to fight your way to the enemy's altar.
The team spawn point is located just above the altar, so if you plan to hack and slash your way in, be prepared to deal with the continuous onslaught of vengeful victims.
And of course, there are secrets to be found. Treasures to be unearthed.
And that's Capture the Sword! Download it and try it out!
Download (Mediafire)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)