Whatever you like, EXCEPT a T-shirt of the band that is on stage at the time, that's a big no-no!
Nope there is no completing of the game, it's like an open world multiplayer thing, with no other objective than to try and stay alive. What I love about it is the fact that the stories and experiences are totally generated dynamically by the player behaviour.
I've heard about one guy who scoured the landscape … Read more
Haha Regenerative Health is a good one for sure, have you ever played the awesome Zombie apocalypse mod called Day-Z? No regen health there, just one life, if you die, you lose everything and have to start again with nothing. It's brutal, but awesome.
My very first game I felt I was doing quite well, … Read more
Exactly what UX 'is' seems to actually be really hard to define, with no right or wrong answers, I guess it's whats right for any particular user at any particular time. (Great specific answer right??)
However, I don't necessarily think that lack of design / development skills are a barrier to entry at all, you just … Read more
It's an awesome app simply called 'Paper' by a company called FiftyThree. Free App, but you have to pay about £4 or so to get all the tools. It's great though, really natural feeling tools, etc. Would recommend a stylus for it however. Been meaning to write a review of it for my blog as … Read more
Blog hasn't been up for long, but working on it, it's here : www.spalton-creative.com and yep, Austin is my spiritual home, great place, great people, and we've made some really great friends over there.
I'd teach a course on 'Low-Brow' underground poster art. It combines my 3 main interests of Music, Art and Wierdness combined, and the creativity in this field is absolutely mind blowing.
I got into it after working at the SXSW festival in Austin back in 2004, where there was a poster convention called Flatstock, where loads … Read more
After many years of kind of being a Jack of all Trades, doing design, development, graphic design and other assorted things, a few months ago I realised that I really needed to starting channel this broad range of experience into something more focused.
I think my dream career would really be one based around user experience, … Read more
Great question Chris!
I guess there are two things you can do:
1) Try and incorporate similar elements into your portfolio website.
For example, if one of your major accomplishments at work was to create a database-driven application using PHP, then perhaps you could recreate an example of this on your website - without any of the … Read more
Thanks Kass and sorry for the late reply, cheers for your ideas. I've just had a project go live a week or so ago so have attempted to write a bit about it, in fairly generic terms. At least it's something... You can have a read here if you're interested : http://spalton-creative.com/?p=158
