Today, someone told me that Satoshi Kon had passed away. Kon’s body of work was almost entirely animated, which unfortunately kept those who could have most enjoyed his work away from it. This is understandable. The niche of American culture in which Japanese animation resides is sometimes unsavory to film snobs.
But Kon’s strengths weren’t in the stereotypical areas of Japanese animation – his action sequences weren’t particularly over-exaggerated, nor were designs caricatures of the human form. His strengths were in his impeccable sense of timing, sound design, and framing. If …
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I was fortunate enough to port a super fun flash game called Solipskier to iOS.
Solipskier is a fast paced skiing game where you draw the slopes with your mouse (or your finger) and an animated skier rides along. Obstacles come whipping by and it’s up to you to guide Solipskier through safely! If you hit a red gate, a wall of snow, or just plain fall below the bottom edge, Solipskier takes a comical fall to his splatworthy death! The music is great. It is one of those addicting games, …
I know Angela and Jeeves will be against me posting this, but I think it’s awesome. Jeeves and Angela were recently featured in an interview in a local Des Moines Newspaper, Juice. Juice is a weekly newspaper owned by the Des Moines Register.
There is a print version that came out a few days ago, but you can also read the story online, on the Juice website.
Pretty awesome, guys!
Trends in popular literature come and go all the time, but ever since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, people have had a fascination with the walking dead that has only grown as time has gone on. The funny thing is now that so much zombie media has been produced over the years many fans become defensive about what view of zombies are the “best.” Is it the slow, shambling, glassy-eyed zombies of early Romero fame, or the new generation of vicious, sprinting, diseased sort-of-undead horrors common to the …
