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Total Providence

This is some footage of a free-ware game I'm working on called Total Providence. It's an RTS with no resource management with a movement system similar to Dungeon Keeper with graphics similar to Asteriods.

Should be finished some time in 2010.

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Tom Dinosaur in Selleck World

Another game I'm working on. Always best to work on two games. Get bored of one, get stuck in the other.

Very early days but I'm trying to create a sort of Space Harrier Platformer around the notion of Tom Selleck kidnapping a young, polar-neck-wearing, Dinosaur. I've got a major bug with drawing the projected platforms so I'm back to the drawing board for the drawing engine boooo.

To be released in 2010 - fingers permitting.

Sinclair Spectrum 128k Programming in a Caravan

So this is where it all began.

Not actually my original speccy or indeed my original hair but still. It's the Spectrum I own now and that's what's important. I had just unwrapped it as it was a birthday gift from my brother. We were in a caravan in Great Yarmouth at the time which only adds to the fun. The sea and beach are almost right behind those caravan curtains. Good times. Great present. GOTO Mar 2009. Sinclair Spectrum 128k Programming in a Caravan

Gorleston Lighthouse I

I took this snap facing the cliffs from Gorleson-on-sea's pier.

I turned it into a monochrome image using my very own Whitenoir. MWC 2009. Gorleston Lighthouse I

Where is Batman

A doodle and a puzzle to boot.

What more could you ask for? MWC 2006. Where is Batman

Dev At Work

Me at work in Norwich City. Ripping it wide open with Visual Studio 2005. Oh what fun. MWC 2008. Dev At Work

Toilet

Picasso drew a couple of really nice sausage dogs with a single continuous line.

Inspired by this I drew a toilet. I can't say it was a single line but it wasn't very many. Two or three lines max. I did doodle it in one fluent motion though. MWC 2007. Toilet

Spanish Steps

Went to Rome. Saw five million brilliant things. Legs got tired. Didn't watch any television. Did not get mugged. On the Spanish Steps we sat. It was great to sit down. I saw this pigeon and then I took this photo. MWC 2008. Spanish Steps

Gorleston Lighthouse II

This is an art attack. Not really. It's another snap of the lighthouse in Gorleston-on-sea. Better than 'the Great' any day of the week.

The final image was wrangled with Whitenoir. Which is free to download if you wanted to create your own art attack. MWC 2009. Gorleston Lighthouse II

Remote Control Enhancement

So I had this idea to improve the design of the remote control. I think remote controls should function in the upright position. This would allow people to read the face whilst it operates.

My solution is an angled mirror to velcro to any remote control so it can be used as I propose. This doodle will hopefully illustrate the idea incase it's a hard thing to imagine. MWC 2008. Remote Control Enhancement

Car Whiskers

There was this other idea I had. Wouldn't it be great if you could know for sure what gaps your car can fit through. So why not mount a couple of lights at the front to project the width of our car on the road ahead? This doodle shows how awesome this could be. MWC 2008. Car Whiskers

Royal Flush

I seem to have a few alias'. When it's poker I'm always Chet Bronsky. My hope is to make it sound as American as possible so people hate me instantly and then play on tilt. I think it actually works. Check out this hand though. Oh baby. Not for real cash but still. It's a once a lifetime type hand. I was losing on the flop! That's when it all went in.

I'm always gonna be playing J10 suited now. I love it. So many outs on that flop I could have cried.

Every person at the table was a putz. How do I know? because no-one even said nh. Tools. MWC 2008. Royal Flush