Shapes and Lines » Mad Otter

Following my own advice..

Todd — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:09:54 +0000

..For a change. See my previous post “KISS“

I was having lots of fun with my old WordPress theme, making custom navigation bars and such to match the header image, but while out of town for a few days I visited my site and it felt a little overworked and not very clean.

So I grabbed a new theme and tweaked it a bit. There’s more work to do, I don’t like the sidebar spacing and cloud test colors among other things, but I do like the cleaner layout and navigation.

What do you think?

Not much time to post today, but there’s lots happening.

Notable is that the Unity Team announced today that a FREE version of the Unity Game Engine was now available. It is essentially equivalent to the Indie license version, which is now discontinued as a product being sold. Read more HERE.

Obligatory Pic . This is a concept I did some time back for the crew at Mad Otter. It’s one a several similar concepts I had to develop in very short order. You can see more of them HERE.

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GOooooooool da.

Todd — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:56:46 +0000

It took way longer than it should have…

…but the universe has a way of tossing curve balls at you when you least expect it. …and usually in threes.

The Enchanted Forest Environment Pack is live and available on the Garage Games site.

You can read my post about it and comment Here, or check it out on the product page and pick it up Here.

Time Flies

Todd — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:48:54 +0000

The crew down the street at Mad Otter recently acquired the rights to the classic Red Baron games and posted a $1,500 dollar bounty for the original C or C++ source code.

Seems fitting since Chief Executive Otter Damon Syle was a co founder Dynamix, the original developer.

Here’s a pic from one of my projects to commemorate the occasion.

Red Baron brings back some great memories, but I’m talking way back.

I remember being obsessed with the original Red Baron, a vector graphic stand up arcade game from 1979 or 80, I’m dating myself now aren’t I?

For one sweltering hot Virgina summer I would save up my quarters and run across the neighborhood to the “Tiny Giant” convenience store every chance I could get and battle zeppelins and biplanes in the clear blue sky of the green vector world that was Red Baron. …That was before the intertubes took over the world.

Crazy how times flies, and the twist and turns life takes isn’t it?

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