I got the iPhone a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been in love with it. Apple really has their userability down!
Wordpress just released a cool app that let’s you update your blog from your iPhone. This whole post was done in about a minute from my phone.
I spent much of Sunday playing with different digital drawing programs (Photoshop, Painter, Sketchbook, and OpenCanvas) in hopes of finding which one is ideal for drawing and inking comics. I found that OpenCanvas has the best line sensitivity. Check out a quick sketch:
The downside is that I can’t easily manipulate the image like I could in Photoshop. Hopefully this forces me to sketch more and plant the proportions properly.
Did some home life drawing sketches from images of a model I found in DeviantArt. I also experimented with textures - might have gone a bit overboard with this one.
I co-wrote an article with Richard Lemarchand for this months Game Developer Magazine. It’s pretty cool that my first published writing (not including the story work I did for Uncharted) is a cover piece for one of my favorite magazines. It’s a pretty cool article about the blood, sweat, and tears we poured over this game.
It’s been a freakin’ long time since the last post. I’ve been working on a new story where I gave myself the challenge that it can’t have any superheroes or zombies (or any kind of horror). Anyways here are a couple of drawings I’ve done to figure out one of the main characters.
So Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has broken a million in sales worldwide. It’s crazy to think that there are at least that many people out there playing our little adventure game. What’s even crazier is reading this blog entry from a childhood idol of mine:
http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/site/half_tuck_is_the_new_mullett/
Pretty damn funny, Tim! Everyone at Naughty Dog is now back from vacation and our next project is starting to gather steam - which I can’t talk about quite yet.
I played and finished Mario Galaxy. After working on Uncharted for two years it was nice to play something that is not constrained by reality or story. Just like most of the reviews have been saying, this game felt like a return to form for Mario. I loved the tight focus of each level (except for the swimming sections - is there any game that has fun swimming?)
Well our game is about to hit the shelves and it’s getting some pretty cool reviews:
Gamespy (4.5/5.0)
IGN (9.1/10.0)
Eurogamer (9/10)
It is such a badass-rewarding-awesome feeling to work on something for so hard and so long and then to see it pay off. Now it’s time for vacation, baby.
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I did an interview for Uncharted for a New Zealand newspaper. They’ve posted the interview online. Check it out:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4221843a24225.html
The game is pretty much done. We’re just putting the final bug fixes and tuning parameters now.
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Haven’t posted in a while. I’ve was in a dark place called videogame crunch. We’ve been putting the finishing touches on Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and the game is really turning out to be something special. I wrote a short article about level-design for the Uncharted website. Check it out here and then click on “TECHNOLOGY” at the bottom.
-Neil
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I’ve been trying to push my characters in a more stylized approach. Here is one of the more finished pieces I’ve made lately:
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