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Here’s a fun tip about the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope. If you launch the game with this web address: http://www.cuttherope.ie/?boxbackgrounds=true …then you’ll get a page background that changes depending on the box your playing. In the first box Read...
I spent last week at BUILD (all caps?). What a good week for Microsoft! Now that I’ve had a day or two to consider the big announcements and shake off the reality distortion field of Steve Ballmer (err, wait… wrong Steve) , I thought I’d share...
I spent last week at BUILD (all caps?). What a good week for Microsoft! Now that I’ve had a day or two to consider the big announcements and shake off the reality distortion field of Steve Ballmer (err, wait… wrong Steve) , I thought I’d share...
I’ve used all kinds of systems for tracking my time, but by far the most effective is a pen and paper. At the end of the week everything gets reviewed and inputted into the digital tool du jour (I really like Harvest), but for the day-to-day mechanics...
This is really neat. It’s a very very early digital 3D rendered film (family lore is that it’s the first, ever). It looks old because it is. It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull and Fred Parke with a little help from my dad. I also think that...
This is really neat. It’s a very very early digital 3D rendered film (family lore is that it’s the first, ever). It looks old because it is. It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull (the founder of Pixar) and Fred Parke with a little help from...
I’ve been (not so) quietly rolling out a new design for nerdplusart over the last couple of weeks and tonight it went live. Really, this project is over a month (2 months?) old now. It’s hard to make time for personal projects! Tonight, however...
Here’s a Photoshop Action (i.e. a script) that I made to pre-dither an image so that it renders nicely on a display with 16-bit color (like Windows Phone 7). A quick warning before you download it: the first thing this script will do is flatten your image...
I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a long time! Over the summer we created Agent 008 Ball, a spy-themed HTML5 pool game. Creating it was a blast! We put a little video together to talk about the design process. You can check it out below...
Plenty of people (myself included) have had some less than favorable things to say about text rendering in WPF and Silverlight. Well haters gonna h8, but we’ve come a long way! Here’s thet thing: text rendering is not only hard but it’s highly subject...
I realized this morning that MIX is just a few weeks away and by a few I mean less than four. I can’t wait. MIX might be my favorite week of year (sorry Holiday Season) and this looks like its going to be a great year even Joshua Topolsky (Mr. Engadget...
I’ve gone a little dark on the blog lately, mostly due to a suddenly very busy schedule (a good thing for our small team of one at Pixel Lab World Headquarters). I’m excited, though, to share a little about at least one project I’ve been working on: Seesmic...
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Funny how your own site is always the lowest priority when your job is to create websites for other people. It’s like the auto mechanic with the broken down car. Well, last week (while I was on vacation with the family) I was finally able to sneak a couple...
I found out today that my MIX09 worskhop is now officially online. I won’t lie, it’s kind of long. The session is three hours of what I wish I had learned about design when I jumped on the design wagon train. You’ll either want to do this one an...
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