DanSep 2, 20203 minProject 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 ...
DanSep 2, 20201 minCanoe: 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 o...
DanOct 8, 20193 minSOB: post 5 - Rubbish progressIn the last post you might have noticed a humble black rubbish bin has been added to the street corner... Physically modelled scenary The...
DanSep 9, 20192 minSOB: post 4 - Early scenarySo it's mid September and I've been exploring options for building the game environment. I've been weighing up the alternatives of using ...
DanAug 12, 20191 minSOB: post 3 - reworking Player1Decided that Player 1 - "AgentK" could be more comedy. We re-recorded the green screen videos with a new blue-wig character that would s...
DanAug 8, 20191 minSOB: post2 - replacing the stick menSo 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 ...
DanJul 31, 20191 minSOB: post1This 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...
DanJul 9, 20191 minCanoe: 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 i...
DanJun 27, 20191 minCanoe: 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 awkwa...
DanJun 27, 20191 minWebsite logo - post 2I 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 ...
DanMay 14, 20192 minCanoe: 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 epox...
DanApr 25, 20192 minPainting: "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 pla...
DanApr 25, 20191 minPainting: “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...
DanApr 25, 20192 minMake 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 h...
DanApr 25, 20192 minZebra tableI 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...
DanApr 24, 20193 minCanoe: 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 th...
DanApr 24, 20192 minCanoe: 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 f...
DanApr 24, 20192 minCanoe: 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 glass...
DanNov 14, 20181 minCanoe: 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 ...
DanSep 24, 20181 minCanoe: 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 var...