Shapes and Lines

Everything is in full bloom here in Eugene and I have been loving it.

I beat the dust off of my running shoes and have been logging miles every chance I get. A little too many it seems, as I have managed to strain my knee and was forced to take the last several days off. …which means I actually got a little work done on a content pack update.

Talk about collecting dust, this free update for my FPS Environment Pack has been all but done for over a year, but work in the studio and the demands of life have taken priority.

I’ll be really happy to get this finished and move on to the half dozen or so other packs in various stages of development.

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This is just a quick post to scratch and itch I have been having.

When I was a little boy, I would crawl blurry eyed out of bed before the crack of dawn to watch repeats of very old Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor cartoons, follow by the slightly less old Spiderman cartoons.

They weren’t old to me, I had never seen ‘em before, and I ate it up …along with my giant bowl of Captain Crunch or Lucky Charms. Something about the basic ideas resonated with me back then, and they still do.

Time passes, the world changes and we grow up. But the basic truths of right and wrong are still there, even if obscured by hallow facades and beset by lawyerly arguments and rationals. I blame MTV, but that’s another blog altogether.

I have had the good fortune and privilege of knowing a few real superheros in my time, those at the point of the spear. In the face of all their own bewildering contradictions and those of this screwed up world we all live in, underneath, they look a whole lot like those brightly colored heroes that inspired my summer days.

Which leads me in a serquitous way to an interview with Frank Miller on maxim.com that can be found here. “10 Rules For Being a Superhero”.

Obligatory pic – this is a very old marker sketch I did on piece of poster board. It’s based on cover design from an old comic book.

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“Often, the right thing to do and the hardest thing to do are the same thing”.

I have exited the garage, Garage Games that is.

It was not an easy decision, but a necessary one for me.

My one year anniversary was June 4th of 08. In that time I had a chance to meet and work with some truly great people. Some of those folks have also moved on, others remain. All of whom I hope to work with again in some fashion.

…Continued over on the Garage Games site Here, where I posted it for the GG community.