I had a great (though exhausting) at Finland’s Global Game Jam 2011 in Turku this year. I was honored to work on two games. Check them out below!
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Finnish Game Jam 2011
For all that have missed the posting:
http://finnishgamejam2011.wordpress.com/
It is basically “make a game in 48 hours.”
I signed up for Turku 😛 Hopefully I’ll meet up with some of my Turku buddies there.
UVs Softimage 2011
Ok for anyone using XSI. If you have been using different projection maps and have froze them and now you have made new UVs but they keep defaulting to the old UVs all the time, just select the geometry that has the UVs then click on the clusters button on the main control panel on the right and at the bottom you will find all the various projections on your object. Just select what you don’t need anymore and delete it. BINGO.
This only took me all day to figure out. Exciting. Now you two can become a professional XSI user! ;P
Finnish Temperatures
+15°C This is as warm as it gets in Finland, so we’ll start here. People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves. The Finns are out in the sun, getting a tan.
+10°C The French are trying in vain to start their central heating. The Finns plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C Italian cars won’t start, The Finns are cruising in cabriolets.
0°C Distilled water freezes. The water in Vantaa river (in Finland) gets a little thicker.
-5°C People in California almost freeze to death. The Finns have their final barbecue before winter.
-10°C The Brits start the heat in their houses. The Finns start using long sleeves.
-20°C The Aussies flee from Mallorca. The Finns end their Midsummer celebrations. Autumn is here.
-30°C People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth. The Finns start drying their laundry indoors.
-40°C Paris start cracking in the cold. The Finns stand in line at the hotdog stands.
-50°C Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole. The Finnish army postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.
-60°C Korvatunturi (home of Santa Claus) freezes. The Finns rent a movie and stay indoors.
-70°C The false Santa moves south. The Finns get frustrated since they can’t store their Kossu (Koskenkorva vodka) outdoors. The Finnish army goes out on winter survival training.
-183°C Microbes in food don’t survive. The Finnish cows complain that the farmers’ hands are cold.
-273.15°C ALL atom-based movement halts. The Finns start saying “Perkele (=damn), it’s cold outside today.”
-300°C Hell freezes over, Finland wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
-Author Unknown
Hello world!
No I’m not a programmer but Hello World has been drilled into my head over the years so here it is. Redoing the entire blog as per my 2011 promise (to myself) that I will update my blog and not leave it to collect spider webs.