My good friend and erstwhile employer, Goose Rock Design, has rolled out a Goose-themed URL shortener service: goos.es
You can now find this blog at http://goos.es/kaw. It doesn’t actually shorten it much, only about 4 characters, but I needed something to test their (very slick) interface.
Pretty worn out from the Global Game Jam this weekend, but I couldn’t have spent the past couple days with better people—or doing cooler things. It is not the most up-to-date build so there will still be quirks, but our game Quest for Stick is now available at the Global Game Jam 2010 Website!
http://globalgamejam.com/2010/quest-stick
Edit, February 1: Jeff has released the most up-to-date build as a .msi installer, which automatically pulls in the required dependencies. If you were having trouble running the game, try the alternative download link on our Game Jam homepage.
As I mentioned before, I will be participating in this weekend’s Global Game Jam. Essentially the video game development community’s answer to the 48 hour film project, the Game Jam is a collaborative game-making effort that will run from 5pm on Friday the 29th through the afternoon of Sunday the 31st, at which point we will have made a video game or died trying. The design constraints and theme of the jam will be announced on Friday, so until we form a team that afternoon I cannot anticipate who I will be working with or what kind of game we will make. That said, I will be jamming with the other folks at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, and they have a hell of a lineup of participants this year—very excited for the weekend. I will be contributing my 2D and 3D skills and limited scripting, as well as taking a first stab at music production and sound design.
2009 was a good year. I landed a decent job, my freelance work really began to take off, I moved to a much better apartment, and I made some good friends in my new neighborhood. It really struck me how well things have been going on New Year’s Eve in New York, when I was asked what my New Year’s resolutions were going to be, and the only one I could think of was to make more art.
