Jesus knows a thing or two about rising from the dead, so it’s not a huge stretch to envision re-animated rabbits crawling out of their pastoral resting places during the Easter holiday. A simple sugar cookie recipe, some cookie cutters, and creative icing skillz are all you need to bring these ferocious zombunnies to life [...] Keep Reading

This blog’s been enjoying a steady influx of new readers since my recent GDC shenanigans. Thank you, and welcome! If you haven’t peered over to my sidebar, here’s the story so far: i wrote a book. i wrote a book on a subject i knew almost nothing about, and i did it never having written [...] Keep Reading

One of the most popular series of articles i’ve ever written was called Pimp My Game. It was an experiment in game monetization, back before i’d ever released a game of my own. i wanted to know how much money i could earn distributing a game, so that i’d know the amount of money i [...] Keep Reading

A client recently asked me if i could supply him with artwork from a game so that another team could produce a video. The video team, of course, couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything with the native .fla (Flash) files i had on hand. They wanted Illustrator files. It took a lot of back and forth and futzing [...] Keep Reading

If you work a lot in Flash, you’re used to the process of adding a linkage name to a MovieClip in the library, and then using the new keyword and addChild method to dynamically pull the clip out of the library and display it on the stage. You can do something very similar in Unity [...] Keep Reading