I’m playing through Braid again after the initial realisation that years of hand-holding in 3D have softened my platforming and puzzle-solving skills, and took a trip over to the portfolio site of David Hellman, artist behind the beautiful painterly worlds. While the painterly style is the defining feature, the animation does fit the unsettling Czechoslovakian [...]

When I’m not making games, my hobby is graphic design, specifically web content. I’ve been able to fold this back into game development by creating web-based asset-tracking and communication tools that have helped both the Edmonton and Montreal teams throughout development of Mass Effect 2, and here’s a little something I can share. iPress is [...]

This week Epic released their Unreal3 SDK for free download for non-commercial use, which is the same development software we use here to create Mass Effect 2 (minus custom bells and whistles). I’d recommend this over any other engine for those wanting to break into the industry right now as it’s fast becoming a standard [...]