Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends

Oh yeah - was very worried about those at one point

And quicksand

The original Silent Hill video game for the PlayStation 1 running on an old CRT tv

After playing through Silent Hill f, I figured it was time to return to where it all started...

#screenshotsaturday, I suppose (got a family function today, so this will do!)

Post a mage!

(A rough test animation from an upcoming trailer for our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends!)

In Yoshi's Island, a cave background sparkles, but only when Yoshi moves. This is achieved in an inventive way by making many 1-pixel "pinholes" in the background through which a field of stars is visible. The parallax motion shows the stars intermittently, creating sparkles.

Dude

Whoa?????

This is a heck of a post to see the semester that one of my animation students has said that they specifically want to work on prehistoric animals

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I started How Pac-Man Eats, which does a good job of citing lots of different games from different periods. It does still do the Atari thing, but it made me think back to HOW MANY games studies texts have much more limited game citations (with a few actually misidentifying games)

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

And if anyone is like “come on it was never that bad - I had to sift through A LOT of this kind of slop in the 2010’s curating the SAAM Arcade. People copy/pasting their academic papers into the “tell us about your game” field was the reason for the 300 word limit

They’re also terrible as models for serious/transformational games: “YOU ZAP THE SPACE INVADER BUT INSTEAD OF AN ALIEN, ITS CAPITALISM! DONT YOU GET THE METAPHOR?!?!” The asst. prof yells at you, beating you with the 120 page paper you must also read to understand the nuances of the “experience”

Started on a new game studies book and I’ve gotta say…can we stop using Atari games as case studies? I love my Atari, but saying “we’re basing models for how to analyze all games based on this 1981 game with 1 mechanic” is why game studies utterly fails at actually grasping the medium a lot of times

YES!!!

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Always fun to see stuff like this in games

two cartoon characters are standing next to each other in a room with a red telephone on the table . ALT: two cartoon characters are standing next to each other in a room with a red telephone on the table .

My goodness…Danger Mouse was a delightful cartoon (introducing the kids to it…this WRITING)

i think a lot of people like wikipedia more than they like stories

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either you hire natalie or you give me money to hire natalie

I feel like I need to formally submit this one to @shakespeare.lol

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Natalie Spitzel Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

Reminder that I'm looking for work after being affected by layoffs at Giant Squid. 3D Environment Artist, or 3D Artist/Props; ideally a full time position. If your studio or somewhere you know has an opening, please let me know. Thank you ❤️
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Also, you know, time/people/money

Students: “Professor, how do we make (points at cool thing from movie or game) that?”

Me: “Knowledge, practice, craft, and paying attention to the concepts we try to teach you but you always zone out during. Everything else is rote button pushing.”

Peanuts is the greatest comic of all time and yet we don’t need to talk about it this much. Krazy Kat is the other greatest comic of all time and we don’t need to talk about it at all. Moomin is yet a third greatest comic of all time and if you ever stop talking about it, I will trigger the bomb