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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Back in my day, we didn’t have these fancy embeddable videos.  We had animated gifs and looping midis and WE HATED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

Yet, today isn’t my day, it’s yours so I’ll share you a glimpse of tomorrow with yesterday’s “Today’s Big Thing”. :

Well, back to work!
-Ian

Just in case you needed another little distraction in your life, I found this neat little warning label generator.  I have also been messing around with Flash the last couple of days, and I should have a game or two up on this site soon, so keep a lookout for that. I haven’t forgotten about my other projects, I just have a little more free-time than usual since I am not taking classes this summer. (I am working, but that is still less of a time commitment than classes. lol)  Maybe I’ll actually finish posting all of the other junk I have been meaning to get up here while I am at it!

One more thing. I just found the cable for connecting my camera to my laptop, so I thought I would share two images with you.  

I also got to go see Nightwish in concert last week, and I naively attempted to snap a picture of them performing... It almost worked.

A Maneki Neko (good luck cat) I got from the FIRST robotics team I mentored. I might be unable to help them next year because of other obligations, so they are wishing me luck.

Catch ya later!

-Ian