As planned, i took my five-year-old daughter Cassie to TOJam, the three-day Toronto independent game jam, to make a game with me. And here it is: Play Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure Cassie drew all the pictures, wrote all the titles, and recorded the voice of the main character. She also came up with the NPCs [...] Keep Reading

Dear RIM Blackberry Playbook People, Thank you for sending me a Playbook. i like it very much. i didn’t very much like the steps involved to put my work on the device, though. It was the most needlessly complicated thing i’ve had to do in all my life. i’d like to see the Playbook succeed, [...] Keep Reading

Drawing repeating elements in Flash can be a real asspain. This tutorial will teach you a valuable trick with the timeline to help you draw things like starbursts, buzzsaws, clock faces, and repeating elements along a path. Check out this vector graphic of a sun. Sure, you can individually copy and rotate all those flames [...] Keep Reading

Animating a bouncing ball is one of the first things you learn in a classical animation program. These days, many programs teach video game development, including art asset prep, concept art, 3d modelling, etc etc, but they gloss over (or don’t even bother teaching) some very basic concepts than any creator should know. This movie [...] Keep Reading

After a tumultuous delay, the TOJam registration form is currently live! What was the hold-up? Remember that scene from Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf battles the ferocious Balrog and they wrestle each other off a cliff? Well, imagine that Gandalf is TOJam organizer Jim McGinley, the Balrog is the new database system for TOJam, [...] Keep Reading