Balls to Monty

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Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:50:33 -0500

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California Lonesome

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:41:00 -0500

California Lonesome:

Selection from my Flickr.

Done in pieces over a couple bored days. Needs some fixes.

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:17:54 -0500

Done in pieces over a couple bored days. Needs some fixes.

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Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:00:20 -0400

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Tue, 10 May 2011 11:47:52 -0400

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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:50:41 -0400

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New website! New game! New post!

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:11:18 -0400

New website! New game! New post!

Previews of coming attractions…

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:04:09 -0500

Previews of coming attractions…

ballstomonty posted a photo: Surreal. Points to anyone who can tell me what this one is a photo of....

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:16:55 -0500

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Surreal. Points to anyone who can tell me what this one is a photo of. (Not actually taken by me — this one was all my ever-loving roommate’s work.)

ballstomonty posted a photo: K-x testing. Lights at 1/6000 second exposure.

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:17:35 -0500

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K-x testing. Lights at 1/6000 second exposure.

Would you look at that… I made another game this weekend! ...

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:34:00 -0500

Would you look at that… I made another game this weekend! The inimitable Rob Giusti and I combined forces as Less Than Royal again to crank out something for the 2011 Global Game Jam (location: UC Santa Cruz). 48 hours later, and we are the proud pappies of a beautiful new baby boy, Centerlights!

This theme of this year’s jam was ‘extinction’, and we thought it would be fun to play with multiple definitions of the word, designing a system that can be read as a variety of metaphors. What we ended up with is a nice meditative experience, equal parts game and visualizer. There’s a bit of an explanation in there for the more attentive players, but hopefully the system is artsy enough that you can find your own meaning in it.

And if that doesn’t do it for you, it’s also pretty as hell.

(Update: The votes are in, and Centerlights was voted to second place in a crowd favorite poll of the jammers. Second was a three-way tie out of fifteen or so games created for the jam, and all the other games were all really cool, so we’re very proud. Thanks to everyone who liked our game, and extra thanks to everyone who recognized us as “the MirrorriM guys!”)

Download Centerlights for free at it’s Global Game Jam page:

http://globalgamejam.org/2011/centerlights

“These aren’t accidents! They’re throwing...

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:45:42 -0500

“These aren’t accidents! They’re throwing themselves into the road! Throwing themselves into the road gladly to escape all this hideousness!”

Another pen and ink drawing. I think I’m getting better.

Forest Fire Taken on a Canon A-1 with cheap ISO 400 Kodak film.

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:08:01 -0500

Forest Fire

Taken on a Canon A-1 with cheap ISO 400 Kodak film.

I want to hurry home to you. India ink, pens, and pencil on...

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:48:00 -0500

I want to hurry home to you.

India ink, pens, and pencil on paper.

… Pens and marker on paper.

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:12:00 -0500

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Pens and marker on paper.