HTML5 game development

Hey folks, long time since last update now so I just want to drop a couple of lines to keep ye guys updated. I have been working hard lately with HTML5 game-development and really enjoying coding in JavaScript. Right now I'm expanding functionality to my home-made JavaScript game library CGL (Short for Canvas Game Library, might rename it to something more fezzy later on hehe). And the work is going mighty good! I have managed to get pretty good support for graphics and audio as well as basic input, right now I'm working on getting a good support for live communication with the server through AJAX, and there's a lot of possibilities that will open up when I get this engine to a more complete stage!

Right now I'm developing the engine together with 2 games, namely Zombie Grinder and Cthulhu Breaker. I got big plans for the later, making a fullblown online level editor that will give the users the possibility to make their own levels and levelpacks! But more about that futher on. Zombie Grinder is a tetris clone with a messy twist, you need to stack zombie pieces that gets mashed and minced in the grinder, pretty fun concept to work with to say the least!

I will probably work with more games to futher expand the basic capabilities of the game lib, one thing I have wanted to do for a long time is to get my hands into a plattform project, just for the fun of it! And this is a great genre to work with to get some general functionality in the gamelib!

Anyway, test out the games and be sure to keep an eye open for updates! Adios for now! :D

Forlorn Fest website

Long time since I updated now, and some stuff has happened since last time, the biggest news is that I have designed a website for the Swedish black metal festival Forlorn Fest, was a blast to make the artwork for the site where I took the awesome Theodore Kittelssen as a main inspiration source. you can find the site here. The code is based on the source I have for this site, so it's nice to get to reuse my codebase for new projects.

Other news is that I have started a sketchbook over at Conceptart.org again, was quite some years since I last was active there, but it feels good to be back. Have put art making on hold and concentrate mostly on sketches now, I need to get figure drawing pinned down, at least to a somewhat acceptable level.

Got a gameproject in the planing, have started coding some for it, but I feel that I need to get my conceptart skills up a notch before I go full into the project.

I guess that's all for now, if you want to check out my SB over at conceptart just click here.

General update

Felt it was time to fill you all in on current news. The show on Sunset Park went great, I got a lot of attention from the general public, some great conversations with other artists and a good first show in general. Got a bit sleep depraved during the whole thing, but it was aye okay in the end anyways.

Now I'm back at home base with new projects and ideas for the future. I've taken up the palette and brushes and started working with oils again. I feel that I need to get some canvases up for future shows, and hopefully the next show is at the beginning of November.

I've also started a book project, it will be a drawing guide book and I've contacted some models and photographers to get solid reference material to start working on that. While I'm waiting for reference shoots to come in I have started using my self as a model for the first drawings. I will post these in a gallery on the gallerypage.

I guess that's a general update on things going on right now, I hope to get some time to finish up the site as well, but time is slim, so we'll see when this happens! I'm at least happy to have a working blog system up and working.

That's all for now! Cherrios!

Some gallery updates.

I just uploaded additional pieces for most of the galleries as well as added a gallery (Concept Art) and stuffed it full of yummy art! But the pieces can be quite old, but might still be a blast to browse!

In other news, I'm prepareing for a show that I will attend with selected pieces of my art, this will be happening in Umeå at the Sunset Park Festival. I'm going to upload a gallery with the stuff that I will have on display there, so that people that visits the show can get a quick access to the selection that I will have on display.

More news on that will come during the week, and I have planed to update the site with some more features, a guestbook and more solid content!

An early start!

Finally the new site is up and running in it's premature age, this is just a sneak peek at what to come. I will start by uploading some galleries and testing out the features, and work on them from this base, I will probably get it a bit more graphic heavy when most coding is done, but that said I think it's good to keep the visuals pretty basic so that you visitors can concentrate on what this site really is, a virtual porfolio of my artwork and graphics work from past to now! Hope you'll enjoy the trip!