Styrofoam & Melt Glue Fun
Jakob and me had a pleasant time with styrofoam, melt glue and stanley knives the other evening. We’re still not sure what we built, but here it is…
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A Simple Process to Creating Logos in Flash
This video shows a quick and dirty logo creation process in Flash. I’m starting with a font, breaking it to raw vectors, using Flash’s basic tools working towards the final logo….
I work on the main time line in Flash. From time to time I add a keyframe and move on, thus saving my progress along the way. Finally, that process allow me to a) backtrack in case I feel I’ve lost something, b) make a little video like this…
The final logo, in two variations:
When Game Developers Will Own Their Publishers
Our company recently moved into a cozy old building in central Copenhagen. As we are a small and young start-up, we can’t afford a whole building, a whole floor nor a whole room for ourselves, so we’re sharing. In fact we’re sharing three floors with 6 – 8 other game developers (depending on how you count).
You could argue that the other companies are our competitors. You could argue that they could steal our know-how, our IP and our honour.
The fact is that yes, in some cases they are, and yes, in some cases they may. But up until that happens we all have a lot to gain from living door to door with the others in terms of sharing problems, ideas, tips, experiences and beer.
The benefits of sharing can however expand far beyond beer.
Small production units don’t need and small start-ups can’t afford much full-time administration and sales staff. Why not share producer, accountant, marketeer and sales resources? Why not in-source publishing?
Creating an Image System Equally Suitable for 3 Continents
Recently I’ve been given an interesting challenge that includes creating a complex user interface that should work well for people not familiar with computers [read: Windows] at all. Not only should it work with computer “illiterates” – It should work equally well on three very different continents.
Take India for instance. If you need to take a leak in India and you’re a guy, you apparently shouldn’t be looking for the classic western silhouette of a man indicating that there is a rest room on the other side of the door. You should be looking for something like the above.. (more)
- Who knows what other subtle differences we have here? Ok, I’m not doing a rest room user interface here, so maybe I’m ok…