January 2011
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Global Gamejam 2011 - fishing game
Global Gamejam 2011 was this weekend and the theme was ‘extinction.’ I ended up working with Jack on a fishing game, which you can play here. Also, a few other Perth entries: Nick’s Gamejam entry is particularly awesome, elegant and meaningful. Rob, Brad and Dan’s entry is very amusing to play (you can download it on that page). I probably only spent about 15 hours...
Jan 30th
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Today I made maths happen
With the computer! In Python, that is. I used variables and loops and input data, all sorts of good things. I guess that pretty much makes me a programmer. But in all seriousness, it was actually pretty rewarding to make maths happen. I felt pretty chuffed when I solved the first problem, it was like being back in grade 1 maths class, and Miss Manning would come up and say, “Wow Simon,...
Jan 24th
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Pencil portrait commission
Hello World! As they say on the internets. They being web dev related sites and templates. I am still around and working away on various things that don’t result in a great deal of impressive art to showcase. Things like animating a snowman, making explosions, designing user interface and concepts for game pitches. Mostly get-an-idea-across art as opposed to look-at-this-pretty-marketing-art...
Jan 16th