Project Status Update

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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 [...]

Web Design / Development Portfolio – XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Design, Etc.

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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 [...]

Free: Cool Tiling Textures / Website Backgrounds

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

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” [...]

Project Asimov, a Roaring Success, Now Over.

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Well, the end of September has come and gone, and at last we’ve reached a time when I am in charge of my hair again, after swearing not to touch it (or my sideburns) until 9/30. So naturally on 10/1, the clippers came out. But before that happened, we did a little photo shoot. Then [...]

Cool Tiling Website Background Textures, Free!

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

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 [...]

Upcoming Site Projects

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Well, I was planning on doing an update last night but instead I ended up staying awake until 2am working on Crispy Gamer. So I’ll be working on an update tonight. In fact, here’s what I’m planning on doing this week:

write cDebris Tutorial #3: CSS-based rollover buttons
add Voices, Chapter 1 to the site
post some cool [...]

cDebris Tutorial 002 – Making a Textured Button

Monday, August 25th, 2008

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 [...]

cDebris Tutorial 001 – Making a Cool Website Background

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

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 [...]