It’s been almost eight months since we moved to Indianapolis, where I had planned on dedicating more of my time to working on my personal projects. I’m pleased to say that I’ve been largely successful in this! I’ve got a lot going on, and it’s sometimes a bit hard to juggle everything. These periodic update [...]
Quick note: I am not particularly interested in disparaging or insulting anyone, so don’t expect this to be a gossipy, tell-all kind of post. I just wanted to clear things up in case anyone had any questions as to why I’m no longer with CG.
In late 2009 Crispy Gamer acquired GamerDNA.com, 360Voice.com, TweetMyGaming.com, and an [...]
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve added a new subsection to this site – a Web Design and Development Portfolio (it also features some info about the work I’ve done in game design). You can access it by clicking the “Portfolio” link above, or clicking this portfolio link right here, or [...]
Here’s a little Christmas present to anyone who might be looking for some free tiling textures for use with 3D Modeling, Video Game Level Design, Web Design, or similar projects. All of these were made in Photoshop from various pieces of photo source, and tile without seams both horizontally and vertically. I’ve included “low resolution” [...]
As some of you may know, but most of you don’t, The Blood That Bonds just spent a year in submission over at St. Martins Press. The editor to whom I had sent it recently got back to me, and they unfortunately won’t be buying the book – the basic gist was “you can certainly [...]
Well, I’ve spent the past six weeks toiling away on a massive redesign of Crispy Gamer, and it’s finally launched. I’m really proud of what we managed to accomplish with it, especially given that our entire development staff was me (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Design) and my good friend Gabe (C#, SQL, ASP.Net, etc). We did [...]
So … in a previous life, I used to run a site called The Texture Studio (yep, it’s still there … thank you, GameSpy). The goal of the site was to release a ton of textures for free to the public, in the hopes of getting noticed by game companies. It worked, actually … I [...]
Welcome to the second cDebris tutorial. Today we’ll be elaborating on some of the texturing tips mentioned in Tutorial 001 and combining them with some other easy Photoshop techniques to produce a rounded button that can then be used in a web site, including configurable text. This tutorial will also serve as a basis for [...]
Welcome to the first in what will hopefully be a series of simple little web design tutorials. I’m going to try to keep things short, easy, and straightforward and not get bogged down in too much complexity. To aid people in further investigation, I’ll end the document with a list of relevant links that should [...]
