Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category

Hand me my Chainsaw of Editing
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009The rebuilding and post launch work on impworks is now pretty much done which means I can get back to other projects. tonight I’ve taken an editing chainsaw to a 120 page text which is the core design for a game and so far I’ve cut it to 60 pages. Now I’m at the hard […]

How to Open a Door
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009I’ve posted an updated excerpt from an article I wrote for Valkyrie Magazine issue 25: Open the Door on how characters go through doors in different games.

Miniature Pulp Era Posters
Monday, July 20th, 2009Back in August 2007 I posted a set of Miniature Victorian and Edwardian Posters which at the time didn’t really seem to get a lot of downloads or get any feedback. When I rebuilt the impworks website I almost left them out and the file got moved round late compared to some of the python […]

Everything in its Proper Place…
Thursday, July 16th, 2009…maybe. All my posts are now categorised. Of course just because the count for Uncategorised posts now says zero there’s absolutely no guarantee I’ve put things in the right place 🙂

6000 Miles Up
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009A picture of an Earth like planet from space I made tonight using Vue 7.5 Infinite from approximately 6000 miles above the surface. 55 minutes to render. A little minor filtering afterwards in Photoshop to enhance the contrast because I couldn’t be bothered rendering it again from scratch.

One more test… Get the Cat Roger
Sunday, July 12th, 2009This one is to check that a post that’s set to publish in the future shows up on Twitter…

Too Many (Uncategorised) Posts
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Slogging slowly but surely though all my old blog posts categorising them so I can add better category based navigation now the sites all wordpressified. Down from 250+ to less than 100 left to go. Yeh! Then I can start worrying about tagging the ones that haven’t got tags 😉

WordPress 2.8.1
Friday, July 10th, 2009Upgraded the site to use the latest release of WordPress (2.8.1) without any problems.

Was it the Blue Wire or the Red Wire?
Thursday, July 9th, 2009A very short post to see if I’ve succesfully connected my blog to Twitter… Update: And the answer was yes 🙂

Vue Python for Beginners Updated
Friday, July 3rd, 2009I’ve added the first new stuff to impworks since putting the reworked site. My first video tutorial, an update to Vue Python for Beginners, showing how to run a Python script in Vue 7 Infinite.