Trip to the local woods

I needed some time to free my mind so I made a trip to the local woods. I came across some places that I visited some time ago. They triggered some memories which I would prefer not to think about but it was still worth it to take the walk. Facing 32 degrees, I came across a little frog wandering around in the middle of nowhere without any water source nearby so I took the little fella and carried him to the next lake. Keep it up, frog buddy.

 

I spend the last two weeks working on a hotel building which is getting close to be finished. (At least the building). I will post some pictures as soon as possible.

Molyjam 2013

I attended to this years Molyjam in Düsseldorf (Germany). 60h without sleep with 48h of game development marks a highlight in my carrer of becoming a professional game developer. To focus yourself on the essentials and be as efficient as possible in a given amount of time was tough but rewarding.

The basic idea of our game was to create an continuously changing environment. We quickly had the architecture of the holocaust memorial in Berlin in mind and mixed it with the idea of an changing maze with completely random generated maze patterns.

This was a little concept sheet that I put together in the concept phase:

You can download the game here

In the middle of the jam, almost all work in terms of 3D was done so I took the chance and helped an other team with their project which turned out to be to most fun of all. You should definitely play it!

You can download the game here



Update

I had quite a busy weekend so there is not much that can be show today. I still want to make a little update.

The ticket booth will get a little storage building right next to it.

The new walls are now fully textured and ready to receive some furniture.

Together with some students, I went to see the WCS Season 1 for starcraft 2 at a barcraft in cologne. Even with not knowing anything about the game mechanics, my friends got quite fast into it and we had a great time.

Trip to paris - Isam 2.0

Finally, after one month, I managed to get some pics that I made in paris from my camera (I lost my cable...) and am now able to let you take a look at them. These are only the more interesting ones, I assume that people have seen enough pictures of the eiffel tower.

 

The reason, why I went to Paris was an Amon Tobin concert. It was the last time that Isam 2.0 was performed live which pushed me to this clearly crazy desicion to go to paris just for 2 days. Taking into consideration that I could barely bring up the money even for this trip made it acceptable I guess. I will surely visit paris once more in the future and this time it will be at least one or two weeks. There is just so much to see.

Coming back to Tobin, it was just amazing. This was by far the most impressive live show that I´ve ever seen. The audio/visual concept was stunning and probably ahead of it´s time. You might want to check it out. Sadly, there are only proper videos of Isam 1.0 but you will get the idear. 

 

(I do not own the rights to this videos but I legaly bought the DVD)

Barcraft

So here I am, back from my first so called "Barcraft". Imagine a nice lounge atmosphere with less soccer and more starcraft on the big screen. Nice people from the gaming industry come together and celebrate the games while drinking a cocktail named after one of the games characters oder items.

Next time, I will probably ask some more friends to come with me and join the fun! If you live near cologne and want to join, contact me on facebook ;)

Barcraft on facebook

Vid from the last DUB FX Concert I went to

 Song: DUB FX - made

Trip in the local forest

Photo by my girlfriend, thx honey