Uncle Shrift

08/04/2022

A personal favourite. The desecration of Eunice McPhee's grave. Attempt 1. The objective, kiddies, is to rob graves for body parts and not let me or old mate Mongril catch you in the act.

15/03/2022

At long last, I have our social media marketing plan together. Something that's sustainable, without giving the game away. I'll be sharing small animated segments and some insights. Games determine their own laws during development, a little bit like this. One thread in the game is knocking off/belting/blasting western myths like Santa and his reindeers. Elves cop it. Easter bunnies. Tooth Fairies. They all get a reckoning. This sequence sees Nigel or Nigela (You determine your own gender and build your own character on Carny Island) blasting Rudolf The Red Noses Reindeer out of the sky. And onto a plate as a rack 'a ribs. Which begs the question: How does our hero know there's an incoming threat before it enters the field of view. We need a targeting system! I'm thinking a head's up display automatically deploys when incoming threats are detected. Given this is all mobile, I've only got two thumbs to work with. FYI: I'm animating in Adobe Fresco now on an ipad Pro in 4K and using Motion to full effect. I export as PNGs, then process the images through Photoshop. Open as 'image sequence'.

14/03/2022

The 'big house'; containing the ten lands where the game takes place. It's always built down the side of a cliff to take advantage of the tide. When it comes in, so do the sharks.

13/03/2022

Finally nailed the navigation and layout for a world. This is Crookwood - a family favourite. Graves that you can rob are illustrated by light blue headstones. But. Are they worth robbing? Pointless plundering the casket of somebody who fell into a meat grinder. All he’s good for is hamburgers.

18/01/2022

Ok. I’m on. It’s an interesting place to be you p**s ants. I’m Uncle Shrift and I’m everything your mother warned you about.

05/05/2021

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05/05/2021

According to the law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. Bodies are just organic containers of energy, trapped in lumps of matter waiting to be released into the wider universe. From Moheb Costandi. Neuroscientist/freelance writer. Author of NEUROPLASTICITY (MIT Press,2016) and 50 HUMAN BRAIN IDEAS (Quercus, 2013). https://twitter.com/mocost

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04/05/2021

This is me having a hoot!