Archive for the ‘general’ Category
Semester Break
It was a quite successful first semester and I’m really happy that I attended that Master program at the Stuttgart Media University. Now, during the summer break I will continue with my projects and hopefully complete some of them soon. A short summary of what’s done and what’s still to do: 2D-Plattformer (no official name, [...]
In: general, programming · Tagged with: AS3, flash, games, Module, vessel
Back Online
Many things have changed since my last post. I had trouble finding time to post and take care of the website due to recent (well, not so recent any more) happenings. A short summary: Nov 2009: Lost my Job in Munic Jan 2010: Moved back to Stuttgart Feb 2010: Got a short job opportunity as [...]
In: general · Tagged with: HdM
Sources of Inspiration, Part 2
Another source of inspiration I’ve spottet a while ago is a comic by Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics — The Invisible Art. It’s a fairly famous piece of work and it’s not an ordinary comic at all. It is a comic about comics. Scott McCloud explains inner workings and phenomena of the comic art form and proves his explanations [...]
In: art, general · Tagged with: comics, inspiration, Scott McCloud
Sources of Inspiration, Part 1
While the current progress on Jester Chip turns out to be rather diminishing, I stumble upon interesting stuff on and off which inspires new ideas. One of these Sources of Inspiration is the well known book “Interactive Storytelling” by Chris Crawford. Chirs is a famous figure in the history of game design, the pioneer so to [...]
In: games, general · Tagged with: Chris Crawford, inspiration, Interactive Storytelling, Jason Rohrer
Back from Vacation
After two weeks of not-blogging I report back from vacation. Paris was great and we have seen many things. This was the last year in which I get free access to so many museums (you get free admission to most museums in Paris as EU citizen under the age of 26) so I enjoyed every [...]
In: general · Tagged with: art, Paris, vacation
Towel Day
I’ve almost forgotten what day is today. After my unpleasantly early breakfast at 5 AM – I drive 200km to work each monday morning – I prepared my togs for the next week and got ready to leave as my lovely girlfriend (who showed her solidarity by getting up with me) came down the stairs [...]
In: general · Tagged with: 42, adams, towel
“Again,… but proper this time!”
All the PHP scritping, tinkering and design – it was fun but in vain. After due consideration I decided to dump my old website and start over again. I just can’t spend time on stuggling with details in PHP, HTML and CSS any more, even if it’s fun. Unfortunatelly I have other hobbies which are [...]
