I updated original snakes drawing function and redesigned the user interface. See the result below.
All you need it a mouse and some skill. Avoid the red squares, and collect the food to grow your snake.

Here is my game submission for the 72hour competition on the Flashkit board.
All you need is mouse. Draw obstacles in the way of attackers. Play the game after the jump.
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I was playing around with After Effects some more and created an intro for triShot Films, and added it to my pre-existing flame on video. I also found an awesome website for Visual Effects generation in After Effects. You can find all the awesome free tutorials and products at http://videocopilot.net/

You may think that you know all the ins and outs of Photoshop, but what you probably don’t know is that there are the right ways and there are the RIGHT ways of creating a web-page design in Photoshop CS2.0/3.0/4.0.

In this Photoshop Web-Design series, I will show you some techniques I’ve learned to keep the quality of a web-page design at its best, all the time. If you keep these things in mind you will be-able to scale up your design and preserve quality all the time.

So your website will have an awesome logo somewhere at the top. If it’s just basic text it’d be easy to scale it up if you don’t plan on converting it to pixel (rasterized) form.

On the other hand if you do convert it to pixel form this is the method for you.

1. Make the logo way bigger than you think it’s ever going to be. You never know what size you’ll end up using. Note: You can also use Illustrator to create a vector form of your logo and export it at any resolution.

2. Ok, once you’ve created this sick looking logo; select all the layers which are part of the logo, right click and convert it to a Smart Object. This will group all the layers into one layer object.

3. You can double click the layer thumbnail to bring up the logo and edit it at any time. But once you’re done, make sure to save the logo and it’ll be automatically updated in your Web-Design.

4. Now you can scale down the logo while preserving the full resolution. So if you ever decide to scale up, no problem.

Stay tuned for the next part where we’ll explore the use of layer styles to manipulate color in real-time. Because when it comes to Web-Design, layer styles are our friends.

I took part in the Yahoo! HackU event which occurred for the first time at UW. It was a 24 h contest, where contestants needed to write a Website utilizing any of the tools at their disposal. Mainly APIs from Yahoo! but not necessarily so. Congrats to Addy who won first place overall and to the other winners. My hack didn’t make the cut but you can see it here: http://www.mygamespad.com in action. The idea was to enable the use to bookmark games and see what other games are being bookmarked. But it only drew from my pre-existing database of games and didn’t connect to other websites.

Yah, here’s what I came up with for the 24h UW Game Dev contest. Not much really… I suppose I’m not as a hardcore game developer as I once was. I’ve been giving in to sleep lately.
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The new design is up. Utilizing Wordpress as the back-end it will hopefully allow me to focus on adding content. I hope this is the last re-design. I’ve learned a lot though since then in terms of design. One main thing is that you have to keep it simple.

This is a design for the german club website which I’m currently working on.
Update: Visit the site here.

This was the second design of devkiwi.com

My friend Charles worked from my original Bearambo drawing to create the BEARAMBO MOVIE! Yes it’s just that awesome and had to be written in all caps.
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