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- February 23, 2005
Snowflake Generator
February 23, 2005Read more
Stumbled upon this nice snowflake generator in Flash. From the pleasant muted interface colors to the nifty rollovers, it’s a tight piece o’ production.
- February 22, 2005
Orisinal
February 22, 2005Read more
Brad introduced me to Orisinal, a games / portfolio site by Ferry Halim. I wasn’t familiar with his work by name, but I’ve seen the games he’s done on the Cartoon Network before (the Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi game on the site).
It’s hugely inspiring (and maybe even a bit depressing) to see such great work in interactive game design. Fantastic eye for color and motion, doing original gameplay mechanisms that are a giant step beyond most flash games. He gets the need for the second-order gameplay hook. Awesome, awesome work. On top of that, I gather he does his own illustration for the games, which makes him quite a force to be reckoned with. An absolute delight.
The Orisinal portion of his site seems like R&D…you can see some of them mechanisms repeated in the games section of his portfolio.
Some related links:
- February 21, 2005
“So You Want to be a Consultant”
February 21, 2005Read moreI just read through Steve Friedl’s So you want to be a consultant article on unixwiz.net. He conveys a lot about the consultant business that, upon reflection, correlates strongly with my own experience. One of the keystones of his advice is that customer relation skills is their biggest asset:
The single biggest surprise to prospective consultants is when I suggest that their technical skills will not be their biggest asset. Those skills are required, of course, and often help get you in the door, but the long-term customer relationships on which a consultant depends are built on one thing only: Consulting maxim: You must give the customer The Warm Fuzzy Feeling™
It sounds lame, but it’s absolutely true; people like to feel good about who’s working for them. Flip it the other way around, when you’re hiring someone for yourself, and you’d feel the same way.
Friedl also relates some of his insights into taxes and billing along the way, but this is not the primary thrust of the article. If I were to sum it up, I might call it “Do the Right Thing” consulting. You can read the article here. Via Slashdot.
- February 20, 2005
Midnight Epiphany on the I-95
February 20, 2005Read moreThis is a long, introspective post on personal happiness…I think. If you find long, introspective posts to be boring, go have a cookie or something instead!
- February 19, 2005
The Diamond Age Revisited
February 19, 2005Read more
It’s been 10 years since Neal Stephenson wrote The Diamond Age – or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. I happened across my copy while cleaning out my bedroom, and started flipping through it. I’d forgotten about a lot of the themes in it: nano-technology, interactive storytelling, and how such things affect the lives of young children.
