The cast list for 1993’s The Ultimate Driving Challenge, the video I watched when I went to drivers ed. Keep in mind I took this class in 2001 or 2002. Before you tell me this isn’t quite the perfect time capsule of 1993 that I’m suggesting it is, Karyn Parsons was Hilary from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. So there.
What terrible world have we built that this is not online?
An early, unused asset from the new Pictory showcase, guest designed by yours truly, with guidance from my too-cool homedog, Tag. Check it out, or don’t, or do. (Please do.)
By Paul Robertson, the genius lead artist on the Scott Pilgrim game.
And another.
A few months ago I wanted to start working on a game. The success of Sleepover has diverted a lot of my creative energy, but I still have lots of ideas and assets laying around, including this one. The idea: a Super Mario game where you play as Bowser. But, you don’t go around shooting fireballs and kidnapping princesses.
Instead, you do the really hard work of being a super-villain: gather resources (clay for bricks, copper for pipes, lava for… fireballs?), build buildings (castles, ghost houses, airships), research technology (mycology for goombas, gunpowder for bullets bill). Think Civilization, or Dungeon Keeper, with a Mario flavor.
Eventually, Mario starts burning his way through your carefully planned world and you have to gate the experience to survive as long as possible. Failure is guaranteed, as a fundamental rule of the Mario universe is that Mario always finds Peach. It’s a game about delaying the inevitable.
Maybe one day!
Pixel art study of the lead characters from Barry Lyndon, with the restriction of the Game Boy color palette, which turned into making it a Game Boy game. In terms of the narrative I’ve shown the characters at different ages, but this is my favorite Lady Lyndon hairstyle, so stop sending me threatening emails.
Desert Magazine, 1937.
Hey, via Sleepover, I started a little blog for cool magazine finds on eBay. “Check it out” as the kids say.
Huell Howser: king among men!
that things have been quiet here. Work is bananas. I’m sorry, I’m so, so sorry. To make it up to you, here’s a list of my favorite animal hybrid portmanteaux, culled from various Wikipedia entries:
Runner-up prizes given to those hybrids who aren’t named with portmanteaux but still somehow manage to make me happy:
Did you know that the grapefruit is a hybrid? For that, we can thank Barbados. They say it’s one of the Seven Wonders of Barbados. What are the other six? A cave, baobab trees, some mansions, a sugar mill, a synagogue, and a cannon.
I saw a cannon once. Well, that about does it. Go away.
