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• By Rich

  Tags

  demo, gravity crash, hohoho, jaw, ps3, xmas

  Posted in

  Cool Links

  2 comments

  Happy Christmas Demo

  18th Dec 2009

  2

  To celebrate a highly productive 2009, the chaps over at Just Add Water game studio asked me to create a Flash Christmas card for them. They provided all assets and wanted it to showcase the successes of 2009, such as the release of Gravity Crash on the PS3. But also to include a few gentle nods towards 2010.

  

  The music is by CoLD SToRAGE (he of Wipeout fame) and is from the Gravity Crash game soundtrack, available next year. Also due out is the PSP version. If you’ve not yet had a chance to try it, then do so!

  Click here to see the Christmas card in action.

  Check out some monster Gravity Crash videos.

• By Rich

  Tags

  amiga, demo, Flod, future composer, pyronova, sidmon, stardust

  Posted in

  Flod

  4 comments

  FlodEx 1.01 – SidMon, Future Composer and BP SoundMod supported

  16th Dec 2009

  4

  Christian has been busy! FlodPro was already the best Amiga module replay library available for AS3. But not content with that he went and added support for 3 new chip-tune formats: SidMon, Future Composer and BP SoundMod.

  As a special Christmas present for those who visit this blog I whipped up this little demo, showcasing 6 tunes, 2 of each newly supported format.

  Hit the jump to see the demo in action 🙂

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• By Rich

  Tags

  aardman digital, interview, profile, WebbliWorld

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  Aardman

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  Read our Aardman Digital profile in .NET magazine

  11th Dec 2009

  4

  

  Issue 197 (the super shiny golden Christmas one) of .NET magazine has a two page spread featuring yours truly, and the rest of the awesome team at Aardman Digital. They fired various questions at us about the work we do, which myself, Dan and Gav answered. There’s also a mini showcase of our projects including a few of my games, WebbliWorld and two of Chris’s games he developed for us.

  Feel free to download the article (2 page PDF file, 160KB). Sorry about the image quality, it’s pretty low. But you’ll get the general idea!

  I know that “print is dead” (yadda yadda) but it’s still nice to see yourself featured in something real and tangible. And I’m a sucker for magazines 🙂

• By Rich

  Tags

  beanstalk, photoshop, pixelnovel, svn, timeline

  Posted in

  Software

  2 comments

  svn for Photoshop with PixelNovel

  8th Dec 2009

  2

  All of my personal (and work) projects are stored in subversion reposotories. For all its quirks and foibles svn does, generally, just work. And is has saved my ass on more than several occassions.

  I keep all of my project files under source control including all of the Photoshop PSDs files that compromise the artwork for my games. Up until now this has been fine, as i could commit changes to PSDs and svn would take them quite happily. But when it came to rolling back you had to rely on the comments to really know what the previous PSD may have looked like.

  So I was extremely excited to get an email from my svn host, Beanstalk, to say that they now supported use of PixelNovel Timeline direct with their service. PixelNovel is a plugin / stand-alone app for PC and Mac that lets you preview any PSD stored in svn, and any previous version of it too. So you can easily, and visually, roll back to an earlier version. It works in a similar manner to Adobe Version Cue, but the interface is simpler and the software considerably cheaper, plus of course it works with any svn host (be it a 3rd party one like Beanstalk, or your own). You can commit changes to the PSD to svn direct from the plugin, and it only uploads the differences. It works with CS2, SC3 and CS4.

  It costs $60 for a single license, but if you use the code BNSTLK you’ll get 30% off that (this offer expires in 2 weeks time from the date of this post).

  So if you use Photoshop and svn I’d strongly recommend downloading the free trial and checking this out. It could save you a lot of time in the long run!

  Beanstalk – svn hosting at http://beanstalkapp.com
  PixelNovel Timeline – svn for Photoshop at http://pixelnovel.com/timeline

• By Rich

  Tags

  action, arcade, game, lazor burd, sci-fi

  Posted in

  Games

  6 comments

  The Burd is coming.. sneak peek

  17th Nov 2009

  6

  Developing games in your spare time is always troublesome when the real-life workload ramps up. And it’s no exception for me right now. But in between insane schedules and family commitments I am ploughing all of my free time into a new arcade action game.

  The gorgeous pixel artwork is by Ilija Melentijevic, and we’ve got big plans for a series of games featuring our feathered game hero “Burd Reynolds”. This first outing see’s him rescuing cute green blobs from alien critters. We’re not actually sure why yet, but it’s fun to play all the same 🙂

  Here’s a sneak peak of the game, grabbed from the version I’ve just committed to svn:

  

  The Burd is coming… during 2009 hopefully, but I should know better than to ever quote dates in a public place 🙂