2010-04-16
World Building in 3d
World building is not just exclusively in writing, but it also extends to art and digital art. Writing up campaign settings, characters and heroes is…
Game design
2010-04-15
Dull Stuff: Game Design Research
How stats are rolled – 20% deviation is something I see pretty often in performance testing and mass in both human and animals. Rolling 3d6…
2010-04-11
Tutorial for Drawing: Kavad Girl.
Here is the example of what I was able to do in about 3 hours (Sorry I was taking my time and enjoying my weekend).…
2010-04-10
GIMP ON! Some Art tips
Art tips for your Game Book. I spent a good hour and a half learning all the Gimp Hot keys. I bought a notebook to…
2010-04-08
Ancient Clothing and Appearances Musing
Ancient clothing has some tough problems and some easy ones. Tough are the surface area calculations. There is not enough data in modern clothes comparisons…
2010-04-07
Ancestry of Game Design
First there was Natural Philosophy, the knowledge of how the world worked before math became involved. Next it grew into the Philosophy of Geometry, when…
2010-03-30
Answering some Puzzles: Empires and Economics
I was stuck at how does an empire of millions stretching thousands of miles get its funding. One of the most interesting pieces of data…
2010-03-29
Game Design: an Expression of Understanding
I always try to express what I have just learned in my own words or game systems. Its a learning trick that allows me to…