I know I’m not technically a ‘Darlingtonian’ but I do know the place well, and I’m really looking forward to getting involved with some movie making for this (it’s about time I cracked out the 5D mkII, especially now it has a proper manual mode for the video!) so expect something soon (people still waiting for the Chaos stuff can collectively groan at this point – sorry!)

Oh and you may have noticed I’ve started twittering on a bit more. I’ve grown quite fond of Twitter now – so basically, follow me if you want to keep more up-to-date with stuff I’m doing.

What is The Matweex?

Duncan Timiney has recently announced and released a new Chaos remake of his own, and in addition started a Chaos remakes wiki. I’ve updated the info on the old Chaos Enhanced build and I’ll definitely be helping maintain the overall wiki.

Not much new information yet on my new version in development, but what I can say is that the first release will definitely include online multiplayer ‘out of the box’. Exciting times!

Something I’ve been working on alongside the other 1,407 things in the pipeline…check back often for updates! Cursor keys or WASD to move, space to fire, and page up/page down to change your ship’s speed. I’ll let you work out the rest for yourself 🙂

Oh, and click somewhere inside the game to enable control!

Play at half size or full size.

I suggest you check out this guy’s work:

daggerxl.wordpress.com

Oh, and while you’re at it, you may also want to take a look at:

www.dfworkshop.net

Absolutely mindblowing progress from these two on a game that utterly deserves bringing back from the dead!

I doubt most of the people who’ve found my blog realise the rotates.org history of pretty-but-useless splash pages. Essentially, the original purpose of this site was to display my current ‘cool thing’ that I’d created. It’s actually a huge passion of mine and great fun to knock something up in a few hours that looks really nice and is uncomplicated and pretty much pointless. I suppose that fits the bill of ‘art’ – thankfully I’m not so pretentious that I’d label it under that banner!

Anyway, after a major hiatus, I’ve created a new ‘splash page’ (for that is all that it is, and will likely ever be) for the online gaming clan I’ve been a member of for 10 years:

www.clan-sqs.com

Really, there’s nothing to discover, it’s exactly what you see. I’d love to have the patience and the skill to work on something akin to Windosill but alas it doesn’t slake my desire to see instant results. If you’d like to see some of my previous splash screens, you can view them here.

I hope you enjoy these little bits of my history – I’m hugely proud of all of them, and they serve to really show how I’ve come along in my profession as a web designer.

P.S. I’ve spent the night drinking Leffe Blonde and listening to Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient – awesome 😀

This is the best news I’ve heard all year…

… or lack thereof! Sorry about that, but I’ve been incredibly busy with work recently and I simply haven’t had time to work on my own stuff. I promise in the next few weeks to start releasing some less vaporous material!

Now, back to the grindstone…