Get Drawing with WebCanvas!
You might have guessed it, but we love creating things. So when Lyxor posted about WebCanvas in the forum, I was excited. Excited... to the point where I have spent the last 30 minutes doodling with other people on, over…
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News and nonsense from Johnny Two Shoes, 2008 onwards. 263 posts, page 4 of 18.
Creative Collaborations - Afterthoughts
On Monday I spoke on the Bafta panel for Tiga about "Creative Collaborations". It was a pretty awesome and I met a lot of great people. Our good friend, Jörg Tittel of Breakthru Films spoke about his history within the…
New Stuff Sunday: Easter Edition
Notes, notes and more notes. Notes pouring out of your eyes and ears, we hope so anyway. That's why we just took what you all said about notes and made the whole thing a lot better with the long awaited…
Plunderland is our new game!
Plunderland is one of the projects we've been keeping a little bit secret from all of you, but today we're announcing it for iPhone. Enjoy the teaser trailer, it's short and sweet. Recognise that guitar riff at the end? More…
EpicBattleCry - Podcast
There is this great gaming podcast I listen to every week from EpicBattleAxe , thought Id share it with you guys. Its funny and on the pulse of gaming news, honestly it cracks me up - If youre looking for…
Why you should own Just Cause 2
There are a whole boat load of reasons why you should have Just Cause 2 spinning in your console tray, but this video should get things in perspective for someone who might not have seen or played the game yet.…
Creative Collaborations Event
I'll be talking at this Tiga event as part of the creative collaborations panel on April 12th in central London, UK. Tickets are £5 and open to the public, if you want to be there then visit the Bafta website…
High Speed Chase 2.2.1 Update
Now available on the iPhone App Store is High Speed Chase 2.2.1, it fixes the issue of saving and retrieving save data from a fresh installation. New players will find these problems no longer occur and getting from the menu…
The Great Space Sale!
You can now buy Johnny Two Shoes spaceman stickers worldwide from our new online shop powered by the wonderful folks over at Big Cartel. We will use the money made from stickers to get new sticker designs made, so hopefully…
Cry Engine 3 Destruction
We have been blasting you guys with tech demos lately and you seem to be loving it, well, here's something new from Crytek, the guys behind the original Far Cry and Crysis games. Cry Engine 3. Cry Engine 3 allows…
Deforming Environments
Continuing the trend of technology based gaming advances, an engine called Atomontage uses what's known as voxels to display graphics. Voxels are essentially vectors instead of polygons, I know this might confuse most of you so I thought it's just…
Unlimited Detail in games
Came across this new computer graphics rendering technique yesterday called Unlimited Detail. Since then I have been thinking of various possible uses. I hope it takes off in some form, so much potential - fully destructive environments with unlimited graphics…
Addy Van Der Borgh & JTS
Addy Van Der Borgh played tonight at The Good Ship in Kilburn. We caught him before the show and he was a true gent and recommended you catch him at The Good Ship for his warm-up shows before Edinburgh fringe…
New Stuff Sunday 2
Maybe this will be a long running thing, here we are on Sunday again and I'm giving forum goers a new feature. I've removed the advert on the main forum page and replaced it with a list of the latest…
Wild Beasts: Hooting and Howling
This is a great track by a great band called Wild Beasts, they're currently touring so check tickets for your local area. Personally I'll be at the 22nd March gig at Koko, let me know if you'll be there.