Ian Guthridge.com

Hey guys,
I participated in the 2010 Global Game Jam this weekend. It was an amazingly unique experience! We had to make a game in under 48 hours themed around deception and either rain, a plain, or Spain. Further we could implement up to 4 “optional” constraints to make things a bit more… interesting. I coded for almost 30 hours straight in Actionscript 3; I spent about half of that time trying to hack the Flixel framework enough to make it work.  I mean, Flixel is a pretty solid system, our game just had a few special needs.

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It’s the end of 200X. Now, we begin a new decade. I hope, as you too probably hope, that it goes smoothly… or at least than the last. While we aren’t where we thought we’d be, individually, as a country, or as a world, we have still moved forward more than back.

Here’s to the New Year! To the New Decade! May 2010 be everything you hope and more!

I hate starting projects.

The first line of code typed, the first paragraph of an essay or a story authored, or the first scribble on a fresh sheet of paper starts defining the product; it destroys the superposition of the possible things the project may become. With each stroke of the key or pen, thousands upon thousands of outcomes are pruned away.

I am destroying infinite works that could have been to create just one. Is this one better than those which will never be? Does it deserve its existence more than its brothers do?

I hope so.

I am not 100% certain what made me come up with this.  I wanted to capture how I feel on some mornings after I have been pulling all nighters on a project… I wanted to show you how the thoughts form and feel inside my head.  It is a little painful on the eyes to read. That’s intentional, but I am a neophyte in the realm of graphic design, so I may have made it too hard in my gusto to complete it.  Feed back is, of course, welcome.

CAUTION! There are nasty naughty curse words in this thing, so consider yourself duly warned if that sort of thing bothers you!

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fig. 1 om nom nom nom!

I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday! Didya eat some tasty food? I sure did! (see fig. 1 –>)

Great food and time with the family! Who could ask for more?

Good luck to those of you going out to the stores tomorrow for Black Friday sales! Don’t get trampled!

-Ian

F@#$ THE SHAKY CAM!

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For some inexplicable reason, every time I wear my “A Brief History of Art” shirt, I spill coffee on it. Nothing else, just coffee…

So I have finally gotten some old projects off of my archival hard drive, and on it I had an earlier draft of a story I had posted a few months ago.  The original version is a little rougher but has much better pacing, and the friends I have shown it prefer it to my revision.  I had gotten a little wordy with my redo for the sake of clarity.  Since all of my other projects are currently way behind schedule, and nothing fruitful will be yielded from them to present to you, I will post the original.  Let me know which you like better.