Hello everyone. My name is John Ross, and I am an amateur freelance digital artist specializing in 3d design and animation for interactive entertainment. I am also a pirate.
1448 days ago
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Finally, my the past year of slavish dedication and commitment to a challenging project has come into being!
Pirates, Vikings, and Knights II Beta 2.0 is now here.
Next time, we’ll try not to make everyone wait for a year till the next release. ;)
I’ll see you in the pub servers.
1454 days ago
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I have always been a long time fan of PC gaming. I expressly recall the humble origins of my fascination with the more sophisticated games that were made possible by a computers superior memory and processing power compared to that home video consoles. I was a young boy when…
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The holiday season is upon us. While most of us are busy reveling in good old fashioned American crass commercialism, it is important to remember the true spirit of the holiday season- Santa Claus. Yes, Santa Claus, that iconic jolly overweight senior citizen who embodies the institution of holiday gift giving in such a way as to make it the sacred duty of every parent in Middle America to spend all of their money putting toys under a tree in the name of Santa Claus. In an effort to discover this holiday cheer so prevalent around me, I set out upon a noble quest to find the Santa in myself.
I am, of course, speaking of Santarchy 2007. I have pictures.
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1499 days ago
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America is big. Really big. From my plane above, I witnessed it’s immensity, like a giant rock carved out of the ocean floor. I saw the vast stretches of land from coast to coast that consist less of the marks of human civilization and more of rugged empty barren wastelands until, finally, I saw the Pacific spread out before me.
My visit to the west coast made me realize how behind I am in my travels and how little I have seen of the county and of the world. The life that I am used to here is so different elsewhere. There are new places to see, new people to see, and new … experiences to be experienced. If time and the institution of working a day job were not tying me down, I would be gone already.
I read in a travel magazine about how Americans get screwed over in terms of vacation time. Most of us get only a couple of weeks of vacation time, plus holidays off if we are lucky. Meanwhile, everyone is Europe gets far more, which would explain why those wily Europeans are going on vacations all the time. I think France is the best. 35 hour work day plus 5 weeks of vacation! Yet, I can only envy this kind of freedom that comes from having a lot of free time to ones self. I’m sure that I would feel more like an individual, and less like a cog in the corporate machine.
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So I attended the IGDA Pittsburgh Chapters 2nd Annual Southside Studio Crawl, a sort of networking social event where a bunch of students and developers gather and mingle at the three game development/interactive entertainment/simulation studios in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh isn’t exactly big on game development studios compared to the west coast, but the ones that are here are big on mobile games. There were actually a lot of professionals there more than students, and I felt somewhat out of place saying I had a non-industry related job or was an “independent developer”, as my partner in crime and recently employed Schell employee would introduce me as. Regardless, it was an interesting event for me because this was the first time that I had been inside of an actual game dev studio office. I have to say that places like these have to be one of the best and most laid back environments to work at. No one cares about what you wear. No one cares if your cell phone is on. No one cares how many toys line your desk. Video game consoles are available for use at break time. These are the types of places that foster creative minds. These are the places for me.
