the old nasties

[egypturnash]

I was looking through my old sketchbook scans for a particular drawing to maybe fool with in AI and I found this little gem instead.

I am 99% sure I drew this on the bus to or from Spümcø. That kinda tells you everything you need to know about it.



Oh, and if anyone's wondering about the videogame whim? I tried rebuilding the swarm behavior in Unity last night and today and actually got worse performance than I had with Blitz's native 2D alpha blits. It's possible that I don't comprehend the Right Way To Code For Unity, of course - but it doesn't seem like that much less work to pick that up than to remember C(++) and wrangle OpenGL myself.

Also, I still think this is cool. But not at all foul.

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[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Once we finally send it to market the boys at Game Ovoid™ magazine are sure to give us plenty of good copy to put on the box and in the TV ads, because our parent company owns the magazine too, and staffs it with ex-porn fluffers!

We're going to flog the hell out of the mandatory 1080p resolution, even though less than 5% of our market has a TV that supports that standard, because we are getting a huge kickback from Sony and Magnavox to create incentives for consumers to but $10,000 TV sets.

Also, we have to make sure that the "topless mod" appears to have come from a third party. Wouldn't want congress to know we were selling soft core porn to children!

The copy protection is beautiful by the way, if any one of the 22 CDs are placed in a system that's running Linux our central server dispatches a rent-a-cop to give the player a full cavity search.

Who cares if it’s the same exact game our competitor put out six months ago, it uses 70% more texture memory and is therefore a glorious improvement!

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Each frame stays onscreen for twice as long, too, giving the player a better chance to marvel at our glorious creation. Which is great, because there was a serious flicker problem when the game was running at its original speed. The European release, of course, will give players an even better opportunity to savor each frame. in the five months between the American and European releases, the hype is sure to build to critical mass across the pond. I can't imagine those old chaps will have any other game on their minds.

Say, why not add a secret mini game that requires the player to finish the game three times with all weapons collected in under five hours to earn the ability to play a game of pong except with laser guns and monkeys and other random, quirky humor that no one else has ever done. And high definition textures with anisotropic filtering, those are a must. Then we can later release this game on Game Console's Online Internet Game Download Service. It will be a huge hit!