Introducing Steel Hunters

You may have noticed some re-naming and re-branding going on in these here parts. You may also have noticed that…

A Systemic Approach to Ground-Up Game Design

It’s no surprise to a lot of the people who have, well, ever talked to me at all…

Perforce is the Most Ridiculous Thing

So, perforce is pretty great, right? Handles binary files and large projects like it ain’t no…

Shading and Texturing (Part One) — PBR

I have been pretty focused on refining the lighting, shading, and texturing methods used throughout Steel Harvest’s prototype level lately, and I feel like it’s time to share some of the things I’ve learned. This is in no way related to the potentially…

An Economy of Fun

The average video game, as it is thought of by both mainstream culture and even most gamers, is a heavily-authored gameplay experience with a discrete beginning, end, and climaxes strewn haphazardly about. At this point in the life of the video game, gamers are essentially conditioned to think of…

Color and Composition

I’m not an artist. At least not in the sense that I can draw or paint or model or sculpt or anything. In fact, I don’t…

Lie to Them

Everything I say is a lie.

When we read books, we tend to think that the perspective we’re reading is telling…

Graphics Development Stuff

I’ve largely been focused on shader development, material improvements, and general graphical improvements to a bunch of our prototype level assets lately. On top of that, I completely rewrote the character shader, thus making the current iteration version 3 of the character…