Project guitar!
So, Agent J is turning 9 years bold on Monday! He started guitar lessons last year and has quite taken to it, passing his grade 1 a few...
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Dan
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 10 - "Lough Allen"
This summer we holidayed at a log cabin at the side of Lough Allen in County Leitrim. More of a wooden "chalet" than a log cabin in my...
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Dan
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
SOB: post 5 - Rubbish progress
In the last post you might have noticed a humble black rubbish bin has been added to the street corner... Physically modelled scenary The...
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Dan
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
SOB: post 4 - Early scenary
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...
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Dan
- Aug 12, 2019
- 1 min
SOB: post 3 - reworking Player1
Decided that Player 1 - "AgentK" could be more comedy. We re-recorded the green screen videos with a new blue-wig character that would...
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Dan
- Aug 8, 2019
- 1 min
SOB: post2 - replacing the stick men
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...
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Dan
- Jul 31, 2019
- 1 min
SOB: post1
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...
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Dan
- Jul 9, 2019
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 9 - "Castlewellan Lake"
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...
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Dan
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 8 - "Testing"
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...
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Dan
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Website logo - post 2
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...
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Dan
- May 14, 2019
- 2 min
Canoe: Episode 7 - "Runners, ropes and seats"
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...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Painting: "Emmy Noether"
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...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Painting: “Hip-hop-a-potamus”
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...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Make your bed!
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...
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Dan
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Zebra table
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...
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Dan
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
Canoe: Episode 6 - "Outwales and seat dowels"
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...
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Dan
- Apr 24, 2019
- 2 min
Canoe: Episode 5 - "Waterproofing"
With the weather worsening, the wind blowing the canoe off its stand, the constant rains and temperature dropping i had to get one last...
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Dan
- Apr 24, 2019
- 2 min
Canoe: Episode 4 - "Glass taping"
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...
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Dan
- Nov 14, 2018
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 3 -"Inwales"
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...
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Dan
- Sep 24, 2018
- 1 min
Canoe: Episode 2 - "Filling the cracks"
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...
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