Office by Alex Penny
I make stuff and break stuff, every so often I blog in between.
Here it is, what I believe is a complete improvement over previous designs, the new corostudio. This will be launching sometime tonight, possibly tomorrow.
Awhile back I posted about the Game Development Studio I started. Yeah, the branding was bad, really bad. I built out most of that site before ultimately hating it (TTH: 2 days) and scrapping it.
Along the way, I was required to step back into a more creative role, first with Dream Monster, then with a few sites that I’ve worked on (more info on that in later posts) and that all lead me to the creation of our brand new branding below.
So, it’s a bit rough around the edges, but I’ve set with it for awhile and now know that I don’t completely hate it. After a bit of polishing it’ll look really nice on our brand new website. Which will also be launching shortly.
As per customs, I’ll be posting wireframes and the work leading up to the finished site when I get some time.
Here’s to being more active with updating this site!
(Source: corostudio.com)
30 hours of playing Skyward Sword (little over, but rounding down makes me feel better)
Tons of stuff collected, many a side quest finished.
Game Breaker bug. And all this is without using guides (save for in the very first dungeon when I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do for that one eye)
Ok, I know it’s a 50 hour game. I know even the mightiest of testers would start to miss stuff around 35 hours after this. But this shouldn’t have happened. Not after Twilight Princess.
At the very least Nintendo, please release a save at the start of that quest. I wouldn’t put it on you to give everyone brand new games or anything. But really, that’s the nicest way to go about it.
Until then, or until I can get a save from a friend who gets around that point. Fuck that game.
That is all.
Brilliant, slightly cryptic.
Skyrim was released this winter, and players have already invested millions of hours in it’s single-player Nordic countryside. World of Warcraft boasts millions of years logged on it’s massively-multiplayer world of Azeroth. The human experience would claim billions of lifetimes spent in its…
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Me, during a discussion about 2D/3D gaming on GDSE(Source: chat.stackexchange.com)
I was first introduced to Black Star by my 5th grade teacher, back in 2000. 10 years later I ended up helping Talib Kweli out with his Year of the Blacksmith site, after speaking to him by chance on twitter, and just now, I helped launch the new hub for information on Black Star’s work moving into the future.
It was also my first time coding a tumblr theme :o. It’s built with Twitter Bootstrap, with the graphics for it done by JCeal. It was actually pretty nice compared to doing Wordpress themes, but it isn’t quite as flexible as I’d like it to be. Anyway, there are still a few things that I am not to pleased with, so I’ll be tweaking it pretty much constantly.
That said, for what basically ended up being 3-4 days of work, after work, I think it was pretty good.
In the future, if this (jessedorsey.com) blog remains here, I’ll probably get around to redoing this with custom work. If I can find the time, and if I don’t end up using that time to turn github into my blogging engine.
Finally, OMG, new Black Star track. What?! There have been different collaborations with Mos and Kweli here and there, but man, this moment! Especially since I am just hearing the new studio mastered version for the first time too.
You can purchase Black Star’s first new single “Fix Up” at iTunes right now!
So, the dates been ‘set’ the fourth version of Indiepoint will be launching officially in Q1 of 2012. I expect it to be sometime around february (making a fun anniversary of the original launch all those years ago) but I don’t want anyone to hold me to hitting a specific date just yet.
Backend…
Just* went to the launch party for MyMentalSpace.com. Just is being liberal, I think it was like, thursday… it’s far better to talk about things when they happen… or maybe like the day after to organize your thoughts a bit but I’m blogging about the past right now so.
(and I’m rambling)
Anyway, Do you feel like you spend far to much time procrastinating on different websites? Even when they could be bad for you, or in general just a waste of time? Can you not fight the urge to check your Ex-Girlfriend’s Facebook page even though it’s killing your self-esteem and self-perception? Well if so, the MyMentalSpace, Mental Space Manager could be for you!
And you’ll be able to start playing with it in about a week or two (Launch’s are hectic).
I’ve been interested in developing more things on Google’s various platforms for awhile now, so when I had some free time available I helped the MyMentalSpace guys with that part of Development. It seems to be a pretty cool tool, check it out.
As for the Party it was pretty cool, at the Fountain Bistro at Campus Martius park. All kinds of people showed up, but as I was just introduced to one of the new Developers at the company what time I was able to spend there turned into a discussion about various technical pieces of the site, windows 8, and other techy stuff.
I should have taken pictures, those would have been cool…
So, first work for Dream Monster has been shot, edited, and published (sometime ago actually, but I am still not all that awesome at this blogging thing). All and all it was pretty fun, we learned a lot and we are steady moving forward.
Sunny Couture is a professional model, and a pretty fun person, working out of Detroit Michigan. We were approached by a professional contact at another Production House to help them shoot and edit an interview of Sunny for Pitchsavvy.com
Good times, I’d act like I worked hard but this was mostly a success due to my business partner and the owner of ReddSteww Productions, Terri Stewart.
