Mystery Case Files:Dire Grove (iPad UI Development)

December 16, 2011 in Design, Projects with 0 Comments

I just recently had the opportunity of working with my colleagues at Timbuk2 Studios in developing UI and marketing graphics for one of Big Fish Games‘ popular games in their hidden object series, Mystery Case Files®: Dire Grove™. A while back, we helped develop some of the game’s environments and background paintings for the original release on the PC, however, Big Fish has just recently released the game for the iPad, which brings along with it some new content! Please visit their website to check out all of the great games they have! Here is some of the new work I helped develop for the game!

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Environment Design (Treehouse)

November 5, 2011 in Design, Projects with 2 Comments

This is a treehouse my kids and I are designing and plan on, hopefully, building soon. As they say… “everything is time and money” and, well…. let’s just say we need a little of both!

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Don’t Marry Your Script

November 5, 2011 in Design, Production, Projects with 0 Comments

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times… “story is king”. Regardless of you’re medium or audience, be it a book, movie or, yes… even a game – STORY is the framework, the glue, holding the entire experience together. Within game development, you’ll find that less experienced teams will delay developing their story, or even ignore it altogether, but it’s sometimes the extreme opposite which can also be just as damaging. I’m not an expert on story, but I do understand the importance of its place and you won’t get very far if you ignore it. Trust me, I’ve witnessed what happens when a team does and it’s not too pretty. What happens though, when you go to the other extreme and you become too attached to your script?

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Restoring Humanity – TED/Simon Sinek

February 7, 2011 in Resources with 1 Comment

If you’ve spent any amount of time devoted to maintaining your online status and checking in daily with your facebook account, like I have, you know just how great it is to keep up with those in life that you love and care about – the technology we have available to us now is beyond amazing. For myself, living on the East Coast now, staying connected with friends and those I care about back at home in California, in particular, has been all the more important to me. In a way, I don’t feel as though I’m completely missing out on everything. Technology’s allowed me to stay connected. Yet, in this day and age when everything is so connected, I’m finding just how much less people are actually connecting – truly connecting, that is. The problem is – we’ve replaced, in large part, being together.

Simon Sinek gives a short talk on the importance of keeping the humanness in humanity and maintaining our face-to-face relationships. He reminds us that technology cannot do this for us and that we’re separated from the very thing which makes us human, when we loose the personal interaction we all so desperately need.

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