You don’t notice this much in the US but I was really bugged one day last week when 3 of the artists were working on the same image (1 rigging, 1normal mapping, 1 tweaking) and the image looked totally different one each monitor.  I could not figure it out until I realized that the different [...]

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The electricity over here is strong: so strong that when an errant surge hits the local junction box from the transformer bolts fuse and wiring sparks and melts, Which is what happens when you have a whoppingly large power feedback without functional protection which is why I ended up trying to perform art direction essentially [...]

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I’m temp art director on a proposal…Wait: Huh? My life this week is beginning to sound like a headline from Fark (not to self: Call Drew and ask for advice). So where we last left off I was becoming painfully aware that while there is a huge amount of enthusiasm there is very little practical [...]

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Interlude for some nonsense: But first, before I have to tackle the issues pertaining to how to get games built efficiently and well here apparently I have to register with the government. This is I believe revenge for the decades of green card bureaucracy and paper-pushing we have made foreigners in the US do if [...]

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Let me start by introducing myself: Hi; my name is Christopher Erhardt. For the last, oh, 20+ years I have been involved one way or another in game development. From 1987- 1997 I was focusing on running studios and shipping titles for PC, SEGA, Nintendo and so on. From 1998 until 2007 I had the [...]

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