September 11th
I spent an evening recently looking at old computer game maps. Sounds dull, but if you can find a game you played, you get a huge sense of nostalgia and see the game from a different perspective....
August 1st
A few weeks ago, out of the blue, the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about my game Hanna in a Choppa . I'm still not entirely sure why, but you can read their edited article here .
The...
June 6th
Finally, I've got round to giving deeperbeige.com its much needed makeover. The new site is geared towards touting my freelance abilities instead of the random malarkey of the previous site. All...
May 6th
I wrote this for a forum entry. It wasn't meant to be this big, but since it is, I thought I could post it here too. Here we go then, with A Brief History of Chris. It was a programming forum, so...
September 16th
At work we recently built an RPG game promoting the children's book Skulduggery Pleasant . It is a bad game. You can play it if you like on the link below. Register and complete the game, and you...
September 15th
A pretty book about mathematics and programming
An enlightening book about the mechanism of evolution
A beautifully written yet brutally filthy diary of a London call girl
And...
You may be too new to the internet to remember email in the early days. Everyone now associates it with the chores of wading through spam, impersonal communication from your colleges and hoping...
September 1st
This is an experimental gameplay simulation of pool. Don't expect a full finished game - its just a toy really - but you may still be surprised by the way this plays. This is Oracle Pool by...
I try to avoid posts that are just links to other things, but these are too good to miss. Cunningly designed levels for Super Mario World that are obscenely hard, unless you just sit back and do...
August 29th
Everyone my age remembers Transformers from their youth. Everyone young today remembers Transformers from the recent film.
So that's everyone then.
I was quite the fan when young. I had...
August 18th
For those who don't know, AutoSolo is a competitive motorsport event. Its a sort of cross between a slow Sprint and fast AutoTest minus the reversing sections. Americans run a similar style event...
August 17th
You've got Windows fully patched up, you have a firewall on active duty and you have antivirus software in place. You even know you aren't meant to open spam attachments even when they promise you...
August 16th
Its a speed camera, not a slow camera. It goes off only if you speed past it. There's simply no need to panic brake to 15mph for them.
August 10th
A very long time ago I made a computer program to draw 4D surfaces via animated 3D projections. Sadly I haven't got any examples of the animations anymore, it was that long ago. It made images like...
Cast your mind back to the dark ages of the Internet, if you were involved with it back then. If you weren't, you may struggle to believe just how pure things like email and the web were. They...
July 28th
For an effect for a client, I needed to make things whiz around in 3D space along smooth but unexpected paths. They would be travelling at all kinds of speeds from very slow to pretty rapid, so my...
July 22nd
I've finally found a good excuse at work to play with Flash 8's BitmapData class. This is a long-awaited feature new to Flash 8 that lets programmers play with bitmaps of data in memory and display...
I went paintballing on a mates stag do yesterday. This is where you split into teams and play wargames with airguns. The premise is pretty simple: Get shot with a ball of paint and you're out until...
July 13th
Just seen it. Its kinda long. Here's the quickie if you can't be bothered yourself:
Troy-prince: Wow Helen, you're proper hot
Helen: You're way poncier than hubby. Lets go to Troy.
Greek...
July 5th
Who says all the ideas have been done?
The wondrous talent behind Tower of Goo and The Swarm have announced that they are making a new game. Its called World of Goo, and from the...