STUDIO BLOG

If your days and nights have been lonely of late… why not take matters into your own (crafty) hands by creating a real life Pazzo … well, a dashboard sized more specifically! You’ll finally be able to hold him, cradle him like a baby or even go for a run together as the sun sets. […]

Folks visiting the AWS office often take note of the sign on the front door loudly declaring “Warning! Imitation weapons stored within – enter at own risk” – well the reason for this, aside from the obvious deterrent to door-to-door salespeople, is that it is relatively common to find weapons str...

Many a Tuesday afternoon has seen the AWS (Adam Walker Studio) crew (plus general ring-ins) engage in cut throat competitive (and co-op) contest via traditional board and card games, all in the name of research. The goal was to identify good game design and gain an understanding of what works wel...

Now that the AWF crew have recovered from the general antics of the festive season, I have gotten a chance to post about our epic adventure in Singapore for the 2012 Siggraph Expo. Having experienced Singapore’s wonder with my family before, it was time for both Adam and Lil Adam to join. The jou...

Over the past 20 years I’ve played hundreds of games on more than 20 different game platforms. Hell, maybe that number is even close to a thousand? So you can imagine my predicament when I decided to name my top five videos games….. too many great games, too many memories, and so few slots on [&h...

Today we are going to share some development background on our new iPhone game Roc Pazzo, which should be in the app store soon. The name comes from the spaghetti western backdrop for the game, it is a (mis)translation of “mad rock” in Italian. The game is set with a spaghetti western version of ...

When I began this post, I was going to write about bands that had in some way animated themselves for either film or television. And while that’s still totally doable, I got caught instead on the notion of pseudo-fictional animated bands instead – bands that (while obviously having real-world mus...

A while back we heard from Aldrich about how to animate movement, and how (and why) to make that movement convincing. But what about the models themselves? What about the actual appearance of what you’re animating? If you’re going to be animating something’s movement in a realistic way, surely yo...

Today I am going to share some of my memorable moments in gaming. With so many games to choose from – I decided to go with games that have effected me in some aspect of my live, I will start with Power Monger. Power monger – 1991 (PC & Console) Power monger is an early […]

So far the year of 2010 has been quite an interesting one, far from boring, and overloaded enough to keep us busy. Some of the challenges we have tackled so far include; dabbling in some futuristic ways to entertain the end user through Augmented reality; diving deep into flash and experimenting ...