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Getting Infographical

Jeremy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:58:27 +0000

Infographics are all the rage these days. In fact, it’s hard to find a subject that hasn’t gotten the infographic treatment. I have found one of these subjects, and it so happens to be one of my favorites: The Half-Life games. So I made this little infographic for ZOMG How, for which I should be writing on a weekly basis. Here’s a small preview, click on it to see the whole thing.

Outer Space Hot Rod: The Logo

Jeremy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:07:56 +0000

The past few months I’ve been wrestling with Flash to somehow squeeze a game out of it to promote Physics-Games dot net. While the game is only somewhere between 40% to 70% done, I have managed to distract myself from making levels enough to crank out a flashy little logo for the game. Get it? Flashy? Because it’s a Flash game? Oh man, I’m great. Anyway, keep in mind that a Flash game logo is meant to amaze, confound, flabbergast and astound. So be gentle.

Yeah, I don’t get it either. But oh well, the file is read-only, so I’m doomed to use it.

As to how hot rods, outer space, and physics can somehow combine into something that is even remotely playable… you’ll just have to wait until I actually get around to finishing it to find out!

Rebirth: Part 72

Jeremy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:26:24 +0000

I just keep doing this, don’t I? Announcing something, ignoring it, and then gloriously returning with a new plan and announcement…

No longer!

This is now (once again) Superluminal, my personal blog, where I talk about whatever the hell I wish.

I was afraid of treating this site just like a normal personal blog because I could never really come up with anything (interesting) to talk about. But having been quite active on Twitter for a while now, I’m realizing that 140 characters is quite often not nearly enough to say what I want to say properly. If there are people that want to know what somebody who makes more than one thousand euros per year thinks about the whole WordPress/GPL debate, then I should have a place where I discuss this, no?

I’m going to stop acting like a professional, and just post whatever the hell I like. Sometimes this will be self-promotional, sometimes it will be educational, and sometimes it will be lolcats.

Meow.

Ps.

Please look me up and slap me in the face if 6 months from now this is still the newest post on the blog.

Announcing: Learning to Draw

Jeremy — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:05:09 +0000

Welp, it’s finally done. Well, done… The design is done, the site is up, ahead of schedule even, but it’s not a static site so it will never ever actually be done. Not until I sell it or something at least. Oh yeah, the actual site, here it is: Learning to Draw, a fine collection of online drawing tutorials that’s still growing.

Am I proud of it? Muah… it’s alright. I mean, the quality of the site is definitely up to my standards and all, but this one was more of a business thing than anything. I enjoyed making it, but I did not have to modify the theme much (nor was I planning to) and thanks to WordPress’s scheduling feature I don’t really have to touch it anymore for a few months except for comment moderation.

Maybe I’m just being modest, maybe that modesty is just me being arrogant, and maybe that arrogance is just there to compensate for my low self-esteem, but the website exists, is not spammy, and will have useful content added to it every weekday. I guess I should be a little proud. Maybe that pride will grow once it starts getting real traffic. I’m going to explain this further in my next post, but my plan, at least for the time being, does not involve advertising of any kind. I don’t have the budget, knowhow, or interest to get into advertising, so I’m just going to let it grow organically. I figure it should get to a decent traffic level because I’m offering a good service and all that crap, but we’ll see.

So, that was that, my projects for the next three weeks (until the new semester starts and I have to do this school thing again) will be speeding up Physics-Games dot Net so it’s not slow as ass, and getting some kind of featured game carousel back on there, as Featured Content Gallery was conflicting with the lazyloading that is oh-so-necessary for my image-filled homepage, and I still haven’t figured out that Cu3er thing yet, the WordPress plugin isn’t totally ideal. If any of you know of a slider with similar functionality to the Featured Content Gallery plugin, please let me know. Also, there’s some whispers going around about something called “EduCade” but you’re just going to have to wait for that.

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