Ben's Busy Blog

Today on Gamasutra, there is a good but relatively brief interview with Bungie's lead effects artist, Steve Scott. I personally have met with relatively little discussion of how advanced graphical effects are produced. I enjoyed reading it.

Labels: games

Gamasutra had a great article today on "Programming Responsiveness". It was by Mick West, co-founder of Neversoft. Apparently he's got his own website, Cowboy Programming, where he comments on coding issues. Based upon how much I enjoyed his article at Gamasutra, I'm going to have to make a point of skimming that site more often. He also has a personal blog which contained a neat bit on how he wired up his condo by using the electrical outlets. A man after my own heart there, as I'm working on problems running lines in my new house. On the other hand, I'm willing to bet that his budget far exceeds mine. Until I can tap my brother's home alarm installation experience, I'm going to stick with my workaround of running coax up the handrail of the stairs and then putting a rug over it when crossing walkways, so as to better avoid killing myself.

Oh, and I did beat Bioshock. Twice actually, as I ran back through much more expediently in order to 100% the achievements for the game. This was a few months ago, so I won't try to comment on the game at this point. On the other hand, I picked up Thief: Deadly Shadows off of GameFly, so there's another potential "Late to the Party" possible. On the other hand, I'm still busy doing things like unpacking boxes and hanging medicine cabinets.