tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-321029 2009-04-01T21:30:02-04:00 Game design comments by Patrick Redding TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64972117 2009-04-01T21:30:02-04:00 2009-04-02T12:52:08-04:00

Because I want the folks who asked right away to have access to the visuals for these, and because I know my own weakness, I'm posting both sets of slides as-is, without notes (or many notes, anyway) forthwith. Because I'm giving both these talks internally at the studio in the next few days, I'll strive to get them annotated in short order and replace the naked versions.

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2009/04/i-left-my-heart-in-san-francisco-back-in-2008-apparently.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46596140 2008-03-04T23:32:10-05:00 2008-03-04T23:32:10-05:00

This just flat-out makes me smile. For the uninitiated, the late graphic designer Saul Bass was responsible for some of the most iconic film titles sequences of the 1950s and 60s, notably Hitchcock's Vertigo and North By Northwest as well as The Man With The Golden Arm and the screen adaptation of Leon Uris' Exodus. He also gave us the AT&T globe logo. Design student and YouTuber 'bhilmers' describes his homage to Bass' distinctive graphic style as what the titles...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2008/03/the-audacity-of.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46547464 2008-03-04T01:15:07-05:00 2008-03-04T01:15:07-05:00

Somewhere around 11pm last night I discovered that Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder has been systematically posting the highlights of the TED Conference. I swore to not look at any of this cool stuff until I'd finished annotating my slides. Not because I'm particularly diligent, but because I knew that watching even one of these visual communciation masterpieces would be utterly demoralizing... As promised - and naturally, somewhat belatedly - I've uploaded the monster slide deck for my talk at this...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2008/03/gdc-2008-slides.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46227982 2008-02-26T23:30:48-05:00 2008-02-26T23:30:48-05:00

Yeah okay I'm back. Right now my patented TypePad List Of Posts is littered with the half-formed abortia of various points I had wanted to get across between now and whenever it was I finished Portal and Call of Duty 4, and started playing Assassin's Creed. It was kind of a watershed moment for me, frankly. But apparently I was too euphoric to complete whole sentences and hit the Publish button. But inevitably, my brief honeymoon with the beanstalk-like Stack...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2008/02/dereliction-of.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-43365040 2007-12-28T21:56:54-05:00 2007-12-28T21:56:54-05:00

As anyone who's seen Neil Blomkamp's pre-HALO work can attest, independent film-makers are proving to be the pointy end of the maturation process for CGI effects. The latest manifestation is this wonderfully creepy short by Spy Films director Trevor Cawood: Cawood - whose commercial reel has a decidedly automotive focus - makes full use of Montreal's uniquely time-lost metro system; both for its Logan's-Run-meets-Solaris paleo-utopian architecture, and by referencing the perpetual clash of commuter and street cultures that plays out...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2007/12/trevor-cawoods.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-42237456 2007-11-30T11:28:01-05:00 2007-11-30T11:28:01-05:00

So I was pointlessly holding off on posting about this since the actual date hadn't been attached. It still remains dateless - possibly contemplating returning its rented tux and staying home to watch the Mr. Bean marathon - but for what it's worth, here is the announcement for my talk at GDC next year. I was briefly gratified to have the talk included among the two or three design track highlights, but I'm not willing to engage to too much...

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