son of splotki

Bye Bye Blogger

2009-12-15T21:08:00.002-05:00

Just in case anyone was actually checking this blog, I've moved my blogo-scrap-book-thingy to Tumblr. I just find Tumblr quicker to use, and slicker to look at.

My new blog, which is just a continuation of this blog on another side, can be found here:

http://sonofsplotki.tumblr.com/

Okay, bye bye Blogger.

It's not you, it's me. I really loved you... for a while.

Yuta Onoda

2009-10-05T18:50:00.003-04:00

Amazing illustrations and paintings with nice swirly bits and flowy hair.

Hipsters of the Universe

2009-10-05T15:10:00.002-04:00

Amazing.

game mod - steph thirion

2009-10-01T16:49:00.000-04:00

game mod from steph thirion on Vimeo.

combo

2009-09-29T17:22:00.000-04:00

Fuck I love this kind of shit.

covered

2009-09-28T18:17:00.004-04:00

Nice blog with tons of great comic book covers, covered by other artists.

A Glorious Dawn

2009-09-24T15:29:00.000-04:00

Daft Punk Tron Theme

2009-09-23T16:07:00.001-04:00

Daft Punk + Tron = FFFFFFFUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!

punishment

2009-09-23T12:59:00.001-04:00

White is Tight

2009-09-23T12:45:00.000-04:00

Jesse Balmer

2009-09-14T16:11:00.000-04:00

Jesse Balmer draws things.

Project Waldo

2009-09-14T16:03:00.003-04:00

Absolutely mind-boggingly amazing work-in-progress comic by Nate Simpson.

SKINNER!!!!!

2009-09-03T23:04:00.001-04:00

Holy FUUUUUUUUCK I love this.

a record of life

2009-09-03T23:00:00.000-04:00

A Record Of Life from Owen Gatley on Vimeo.

Dance of the Neon Knight

2009-08-24T15:12:00.001-04:00

Dance of the Neon Knight from Paul Rayment on Vimeo.

Awesome art style.

Edmund

2009-08-17T12:50:00.002-04:00

I played this game over the weekend. It's really amazing. Freaked my shit out and made me feel weird, but in a really interesting way. The art style is also killer. This is from the TIG source Adult/Educational Competition.

Et moi, et moi, et moi

2009-08-14T12:08:00.000-04:00

please say something

2009-08-13T12:55:00.001-04:00

Please Say Something - Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo.

This is amazing and beautiful. I found it on on Brandon's tumblr.

L'echange

2009-08-12T17:52:00.001-04:00

L'échange - The exchange from Baptiste Sola on Vimeo.

Man With No Shadow

2009-08-12T17:48:00.001-04:00

Makoto Tojiki's Man With No Shadow.

Critter Crunch BLOG

2009-08-12T11:41:00.003-04:00

www.crittercrunch.com, yo

ZX Spectrum

2009-08-12T11:38:00.001-04:00

ZX Spectrum art. Awesome

how it would be if a house was dreaming.

2009-07-24T16:18:00.000-04:00

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

Via Boing Boing.

Andrew Bird

2009-07-23T18:51:00.001-04:00

AJ Fosik

2009-07-23T17:19:00.000-04:00

AJ Fosik wood sculptures.

Rock Fonts

2009-07-21T18:39:00.003-04:00

Southern Lord Records has a roster of bands with fonts FORGED IN HELL.

tree bark

2009-07-16T20:18:00.000-04:00

A Final Fantasy Anecdote

2009-07-16T12:20:00.002-04:00

Beautiful art style with Ghibli-style wind-through-grass animation...

wet hair

2009-07-15T18:48:00.004-04:00

Wet Hair on myspace.

panda clock

2009-07-15T18:45:00.001-04:00

http://pandaclock.com/

oh man... this is so gooooooooood

2009-07-15T17:27:00.002-04:00

kashmir

2009-07-15T16:39:00.001-04:00

kashmir from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

processing monsters

2009-07-14T18:31:00.002-04:00

A bunch of cool little monsters made with Processing.

puit's fresh pixels

2009-07-14T12:54:00.001-04:00

POIT WARS v1 from oneup on Vimeo.

http://puit.soup.io/

intestella on the you tubes

2009-07-14T11:04:00.000-04:00

civilization

2009-07-14T11:00:00.000-04:00

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

my favorite intro

2009-07-13T19:47:00.003-04:00

I should probably print this and frame it.

my glum is busted

2009-07-13T19:01:00.002-04:00

Glum Buster. This game is beautiful.

tiny game

2009-07-10T12:29:00.003-04:00

Tony Pa's Tiny Game, playing on Jay is Games, is right up my alley.

i love this

2009-07-08T16:12:00.000-04:00

water drawing

2009-07-08T00:43:00.000-04:00

preeettyyyyyyy.

online pixel art tool

2009-07-07T14:29:00.000-04:00

Simple, clean and handy.

tony pa

2009-07-05T01:15:00.003-04:00

Tony Pa's amazing tutorial set for making tile-based games in flash.

Construct

2009-06-26T18:29:00.002-04:00

Construct is a new, free game creation tool in the style of Game Maker or Multimedia Fusion. Something to check out.

Floating World Animation Fest

2009-06-26T18:25:00.000-04:00

Floating World Animation Fest 2009 Trailer - Holocene, June 25th from Floating World Comics on Vimeo.

Bradon's little corner of the world

2009-06-24T18:20:00.001-04:00

This is Brandon Boyer's tumblr blog. It is filled with incredible things.

character hunter

2009-06-24T16:42:00.003-04:00

Character Hunter is a blog about those little cute fuckers found all over Japanese packaging.

latest consuptions - vacation edition

2009-06-24T15:38:00.010-04:00

Games:

Uniwar - totally classic hex-based strategy on the go. Love it.
Peggle iPhone -Ah fuck it, I love Peggle.
Drop7 - 9 hour flight + Drop 7 + Growing = drugs.
Primrose - Minimalistic puzzle game by Jason Rohrer, minus anything Jason Rohrer.
Wolfenstien 3d iPhone - Utterly terrible port. Why does this game have blurry, blown up pseudo-pixels instead of crisp, beautiful sprites? Just give me classic Wolf3d, okay? Don't upscale anything.
Lilt Line - Nice visual style, but sorta bland game design. It's just tilt controlled helicopter with some graphic design sense. Then again, it's cheep so whatever, it's worth a play.
Reflexion - Breakout on crack with perfect touch controls.
Eliss - I like. More like this, please.

Books:

The Road - Total downer... but incredible.
Wizard of Earthsea - It made me want to replay Windwaker.
Tombs of Atuan - It made me want to replay Ico.
Black Jack - Book 1 - Osamu Tezuka classic about a doctor super hero. Pulpy and cheesy as hell, but worthwhile.
The Shadow out of Time - I don't know what it is about Lovecraft but his books are never scary... until I actually fall asleep. Then I always have the most horrible nightmare of my life.

Films:

Up - Not as good as I hoped, but still full of Pixar goodness.
Tales of Earthsea - I need more Earthsea!!!
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chung Li - In-flight movie number 1, mind numbingly horrible.
The International - In-flight movie number 2, surprisingly interesting. Clive Owen is a dream boat.

Other iPhone Apps:

Stanza - 51 books on my iPhone for free, including every Conan tale and everything HP Lovecraft. I love it.
Buddha Machine - Ye ol' Buddha Machine, but on the iphone. Perfect, looping ambient goodness.
TonePad - Very addictive, free music generator.
8bitOne - Fully functional chip tunes program. Really amazing.

while I was away...

2009-06-24T15:21:00.004-04:00

Good things happened at capy, such as:

Pocketgamer ploped us in their E3 Top 10.
IGN nominated us for 4 Best of E3 Awards.
Joystick wrote a nice Critter Crunch Hands On post.
Brandon Boyer of Offworld wrote a great feature about iphone games, including CC.
Other secret things.

me code pretty once day

2009-06-24T15:20:00.002-04:00

Hopefully somethinging interesting to watch:

Me Code Pretty Once Day.

seven force

2009-06-24T15:18:00.001-04:00

Gunstar Heroes, Seven Force boss battle. Classic insanity.

From Kona to Krakow

2009-06-24T15:08:00.002-04:00

I am back from an extended vacation. I have seen beautiful things. Now it is time to blog.

voxel

2009-05-14T21:10:00.000-04:00

Voxel from Ubik on Vimeo.

open processing

2009-05-14T16:00:00.001-04:00

Saving this for when I actually have time to sit down and learn processing.

kickstarter

2009-05-13T19:41:00.000-04:00

Kickstarter is a really really excellent idea.

Critter Crunch PSN TRAILER!@!!

2009-05-12T14:57:00.002-04:00

Critter Crunch PSN Debut Trailer from Capy! on Vimeo.

Here's the official post on Playstation Blog.

GDFX

2009-05-09T17:07:00.002-04:00

Greg Fox is excellent.

famicase '09

2009-05-06T18:26:00.001-04:00

A fresh batch of sexy famicon cases.

dark night of the soul

2009-05-06T13:43:00.002-04:00

What an incredible collaboration.

new capy logo

2009-05-06T13:28:00.002-04:00

Ch-ch-ch-ch-chaaaaanges.

Delete Friend

2009-05-04T21:36:00.004-04:00

Delete Friend is a-okay.

Radio LNSKRFTRS

david benjamin sherry

2009-05-01T12:31:00.000-04:00

Pretty photos here.

Jon 2 tha Mak

2009-04-30T16:39:00.002-04:00

Last week I checked out the HES gathering. It was a whole lot of fun. Toronto finally has a good indie game dev thing to look forward to. Thank you, people who made it happen, of which one is Jim Munroe... I think?

yes

2009-04-29T12:25:00.003-04:00

Nevermore 3 is pretty.

2009-04-28T14:33:00.002-04:00

Nevermore 3 is a really really really beautiful 2d exploration game.

chrome experiments

2009-04-28T12:53:00.003-04:00

Just started browsing through Chrome Experiments, a site showcasing a ton of really interesting experiments created in Google Chrome.

One of the ones that stuck out for me was Chormedomes, because it kinda relates to a game I'm making.

Chromedomes is made by Aaron Meyers, who has made quite a bit of awesome stuff, including YouCube.

Polish film posters

2009-04-27T14:38:00.001-04:00

For some reason, Polska makes truly incredible film posters.

cute robot proves people are good.

2009-04-27T13:59:00.002-04:00

Awwwwwwww. That little cardboard robot and this story make me feel warm and fuzzy.

ball droppings

2009-04-27T13:48:00.001-04:00

Ball Droppings.

frozen movie

2009-04-23T14:04:00.001-04:00

Holy crap this is so amazing.

oh fuck off, Nature!!!

2009-04-22T15:25:00.001-04:00

Nature has gone too far! TOO FAR!!!

Oasis

2009-04-21T19:18:00.001-04:00

Wow.

Department of Eagles

2009-04-21T18:48:00.002-04:00

mmm, tasty Hatsworth pixels...

2009-04-21T13:38:00.004-04:00

Still waiting for Amazon to send me my copy of Henry Hatsworth (and Dark Spire). In the meantime, we have this amazing gallery of concept art.

defeat me

2009-04-20T17:18:00.002-04:00

Kenta Cho's DefeatMe.

Also gotta remember to play with Wonderfl at some point...

play tank

2009-04-20T13:33:00.001-04:00

1 bit music

2009-04-17T18:38:00.004-04:00

1-bit Music: What Steve Reich making chip tunes would sound like.

Thunder Chunky

2009-04-16T19:45:00.003-04:00

Both of my previous posts have been stolen from Thunder Chunky, an amazing site about illustrations and other things worthwhile.

ben the illustrator

2009-04-16T19:38:00.004-04:00

Hello Ben. You are amazing. Also, Wish You Were Here is amazing too.

toy

2009-04-16T19:27:00.003-04:00

Toy is a pretty cool site containing a nice bunch of illustrators and their crazy works.

new capy site is up

2009-04-14T11:48:00.001-04:00

Still a work in progress, but it's on its way.

digital tools

2009-04-09T12:29:00.002-04:00

Whoa... thanks to that Tone Matrix post, I am now aware of Digital Tools, an incredible blog about pretty much everything I love.

Andre Michelle

2009-04-09T12:21:00.002-04:00

Indie Games blog just posted a bit about Tone Matrix, an amazingly simple and sinewave sythesizer by Andre Michelle. Michell's site is filled with a plethora of mind blowing stuff.

Well it's official; I'm getting a PSP.

2009-04-07T22:22:00.002-04:00

Finally, a psp game for me.

The Hive

2009-04-06T19:57:00.002-04:00

Brent Silby makes good stuff.

Malstrums Mansion

2009-04-06T19:53:00.000-04:00

5 Thumbs up!

The Dark Spire

2009-04-06T19:32:00.001-04:00

I love the art style in this game. Can't wait!

envirobear

2009-04-06T14:11:00.001-04:00

This is so hilarous.

Synplant

2009-04-03T17:25:00.002-04:00

glomag

2009-04-03T17:18:00.004-04:00

Yet another s uper solid chiptunes album. Check out this moody little ditty.

skwak!

2009-04-03T17:15:00.001-04:00

Holy Skwak!

oh come on, nature!

2009-04-01T16:08:00.001-04:00

in the yellow

2009-04-01T13:27:00.002-04:00

An awesome collection of high-class action figures, and their creators.

famicon cases

2009-04-01T12:58:00.004-04:00

This is old but I just want it up here for future reference.

tiny cartridge

2009-04-01T12:49:00.001-04:00

Another blog filled with goodness.

Pekko is smart.

2009-03-31T16:27:00.006-04:00

I met Pekko Koshinen at GDC last week and he is freakin' so smart it's crazy. Check out t his MTV blog post about some really solid stuff he said last year:

Can’t we then think of game design as an art of fictional behavior? You can think of game design as you coming up with a pattern of behavior?

I wonder what kind of stuff he's saying THIS year??!?!

Space Art

2009-03-31T16:15:00.003-04:00

So my buddy Jason just hooked me up with some SPACE ART! I'm totally hooked.

"don't make a 4 hour game if you're shit."

2009-03-31T16:10:00.002-04:00

Cactus' IGS talk was hilarious and awesomely inspiring. He makes me cry tears of (jealousy) joy.

Messhof at MOCCA

2009-03-30T20:16:00.003-04:00

Mark Essen, AKA Messhof, will be showing his latest insanity at MOCCA

nothing but love

2009-03-30T17:07:00.003-04:00

I'm back from GDC and I gotta say it's been by far the best one ever. I met tons of indie folks and other great people and just had a blast all week long. The indie scene right now is one giant love-fest and I'm so damn lucky to be part of it. Ahhhh....