Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2009
Rules for Beetle and other Old Games
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Years ago I was asked for a set of rules for the game Beetle and the other day I got an email asking if I still had them. So tonight I’ve posted them into my games section along with the rules for Dice Poker, Tiddley-Winks Football and Tiddley-Winks which I found sitting around on my […]
Vue 8 On the Way
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009I’ve repeated the official press release over on my Vue News Blog and I’ve done a couple of quick tweets. This may not be much longer but I’m really looking forward to Vue 8. Scene Context Sculpting and 3D Terrain Sculpting sounds really cool and useful. I know some cynics will say this isn’t a […]
Red Wine and Red Ink
Sunday, October 4th, 2009I was going to post about some work I did this afternoon with Vue, light filters, arrays of lights and other good stuff I’ve been working on to restart my series of lighting tutorials for Vue. However a reasonably decent bottle of red wine from M&S put pay to that idea as I got sidetracked […]
Chocolate Spice Cake
Monday, September 28th, 2009I baked this for a friend’s birthday years ago. The other day they asked me for the recipe so here it is. Ingredients 200g Margarine 400g Caster Sugar 100g Plain Chocolate 4 Eggs (size 3) separated 2 x 2.5ml spoon Cinnamon 2 x 2.5ml spoon Mixed Spice 350g Self Raising Flour 240ml Milk 50g Cut […]
Updated Add Material Layer Scripts
Monday, September 28th, 2009I’ve just uploaded version 0.4 of my python scripts for Vue that add material layers to all the materials in a scene. This release includes a new script which adds a material layer at the top of the list of layers so long as the material doesn’t include any nodes attached to the Transparency output […]
Living Longer to Slag!
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Sent a short article for BTRC’s Slag off to Nick at Ragnarok earlier including three new systems and four ships designed to use them. All of them are built around a theme of creating ships that enhance the survivability of other ships through defence or distracting the enemy.
Create Sexy Characters the M&S Way
Friday, September 25th, 2009I’ve done an update of an old blog post about describing characters as though their food in an M&S advert and put it up as a page in the impworks site proper to make it easier to find: Sexy, Memorable Characters the Marks & Spencers Way.
25 Years of Elite
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Its 25 years since Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell published by Acornsoft went on sale in September 1984 for the BBC Micro computer. I played it for many hours on the spectrum in my youth. Even though its not an RPG I’ve added it to my Open the Door page – only the […]
A History of the World in Six Glasses
Monday, September 21st, 2009I finished reading A History of the World in Six Glasses few days ago. Its a little tour through history looking at the impact of six (well seven if you include water) styles of drink and their history. It starts (briefly) with water then moves quickly on to beer then on through wine, spirits, coffee, […]
Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom – Accepted
Friday, September 18th, 2009Astonishing Adventures Magazine has accepted my short story Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom for issue 8. I’ve one minor rewrite to do and I’m going to look at adding back in some of what I cut to get it down to 3000 words since their word limits gone up since I first […]