Wooden Platforms - putting the wood into action

It's been a while and I decided to get back into the tutorials with a request for wooden platforms as used in the wood material tutorial:http://netbook-game.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/making-materials-wood.htmlA lot of this tutorial is repeated here in a slightly less detailed way - you might want to reread the older tutorials if you run into...

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Orcs Must Die Review

Hi my name is Nik and today i am taking a look in to one of the most addicting games of last year:So Orcs Must Die is a game about killing orcs - simple as that. There is some basic story - you are a warmage that defends the portals to the human world, called rifts, from orcs. The really good part of the game however is the killing...

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The Walking Dead Review

Hi my name is Nik and today is a day for another game from Telltale games :You are probably thinking "oh great another mindless zombie shooter", well fortunately its not. The walking dead is a point and click zombie survivor game. You play a character named Lee, who in the start of the game is in a police car and you are on your way...

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Sky Drift Review

Hi my name is Nik and today is a good day to take a look at:As you probably figured from the name Sky Drift is a game about racing with airplanes, someone compared it quite accurate to mario kart in the sky. This game is all about things only - speed! All of the planes fly very fast and you have to make sharp turns true in tight...

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Super Meat Boy Review

Hi my name is Nik and today i am going to take a look at the most rage infusing game i have played:So super meat boy is a precision, high speed platformer and its dificult as they come, but very rewarding when you get a level done. The "story" is preity simple you are meat boy, who is actually made from meat, you love a girl named Bandage....

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Still alive...

Sorry about the long break between posts... I am in the middle of some turmoil at the moment and a iOS project blew out of scope artwise and turned from a quick 'couple of days' job into a full blown production. With the end of in sight more tutorials will be coming as soon I got my feet back on the ground. ;)&nbs...

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Back to the Future: The Game Review

Hi my name is Nik and i am going to take a look at another of my favorite games of last year:Back to the Future: The Game when i first heard about this i was like: "What? Can Telltale games give this game the story that a Back to the Future game deserves ,or they will screw it up like some many movie licensed games".And i was so surprised...

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Happy Easter!

I hope you are all having a great Easter. I surely did (even while working through most of a perfectly sunny day). As usual working made me think of great topics for the next tutorials... Once I am over the current mountain of work I have another 4 tutorials to write - just to put some fun into the mix. I wonder why work can't...

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Top down view - Soldier

I am jumping wildly from iso to shading and now to a top down view. I apologize for the lack of order in the tutorial posts at the moment but I just felt like writing this one after creating the art for a request. Top down characters - there really is not that much to see when you look straight down on a character. You see the top of...

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Basic shading - the ball

This has to be one of the most requested tutorials has to be on shading. How do you do it? Why do it? Where do I add shadows and what colours do I use? Lighting is vast area and the possibilities are shear endless. In this tutorial I tried to cover the absolute basics with one of the simplest shapes - the ball.If used correctly light and...

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