In the last post you might have noticed a humble black rubbish bin has been added to the street corner... Physically modelled scenary The...

So it's mid September and I've been exploring options for building the game environment. I've been weighing up the alternatives of using ...

Decided that Player 1 - "AgentK" could be more comedy. We re-recorded the green screen videos with a new blue-wig character that would s...

So i've begun to replace the red and black stick man animations with the real ones. So far just added the 'idle' cycles and the left and ...

This is the first post about the new game we’ve started developing “The Streets Of Belfast!” (SOB) The game is to be a 2.5D side-scrolle...

So this weekend I arranged with a friend to take our canoe and new white and blue second-hand sail boat out for a trial run at the lake i...

Two weekends ago I had a quick test to see if we could get the canoe onto the car. It just fits. It is a two-person job due to the awkwa...

I took this picture of a monkey in the road when I was on a local bus in Sri Lanka a few years ago... I started using it as an avatar on ...

Back from Dublin it was time to add the runners to the underside of the hull. The runners were attached to the hull with a layer of epox...

I like pictures in the house to have a story to explain their presence. For example i have this picture in my lounge next to the fire pla...

Painting is a good way to get extended conversation with the kids, flick paint at each other and do silly stuff. Agent K is already quite...

There's 'making your bed' and then there's actually making your own bed from wood, glue, screws and hard work... Step 1 get the kids to h...

I found a drop-leaf table that fitted in the space beside the chimney breast in my lounge and also opened large enough to serve as a dini...

Spring has arrived at last. It's Easter weekend and it's 21 degrees. Canoe building time! The job I've not been relishing -- fitting th...

With the weather worsening, the wind blowing the canoe off its stand, the constant rains and temperature dropping i had to get one last f...

Last time I had fitted the inwales to help stiffen the rim of the hull and keep it's shape better. The internal seams had also been glass...

All the seams on the exterior have been filled and I’ve now made a start on the walings as shown above. The inner walings are glued and ...

Have at last filled all the cracks between planks, inside and out. It’s made quite a mess as you can see. I’m toying with the idea of var...

I was frustratedly peering at some music score — I’ve always been slow to recognise notes that are extended above or below the stave — I...

Was thinking about a logo for my website. —I like the black cat but it’s not my logo so it has to change :( What I like about it is that...