Most people keep their notes to themselves and forget about them.If they make notes at all.
My blog, “Indie Notebook”, is an attempt to convert every good note I have into something that makes sense or is as fun as it appeared the moment I jotted it down.
Because of that my writing is a bit all over the place, it’s about being an artist and game maker, but also life stories and random thoughts. It’s the mix that makes it fun.
📒 Blog/Indie Notebook
If you don’t know where to start:
When you don’t know what to draw →
Games don’t treat death like death →
Computers are still babies →
Here’s a list of my favorite links on the internet.
Sorting is as fun as a video game
Most people see the act of organizing and sorting things as a chore. Wilmot’s Warehouse proves that it’s fun.
What's the point of learning more stuff?
I just felt like being a couch potato and watching Friends recently. Instead of learning about cool stuff like I used to. Such as micro expressions. (WOP #3)
The Unclear Inspiration Syndrome
You need two types of inspiration to make a nutritious idea. (WOP #2)
“How did you always know what you wanted to do?”
I thought I could see my future. (WOP #1)
Smarter tools won’t replace artists
Sometimes a new revolutionary tool shows up and the same discussion comes back.
“Will this tool replace the jobs of artists?”
Silly doodle VS The Biggest Painting Ever
Sometimes people care more about your 5 minute doodles than intricate illustrations that you poured hours into.
The slowest person in the group
When I was a teen, I often dreamed of abandoning society to explore the woods.
Only fuzzy ideas of what to do
I had hundreds of ideas but I couldn’t stick to any one of them. I kept restarting and giving up.
8 Creative tips for my buddy
A friend of mine asked me why I seem to always have ideas and stuff going on.
I drew a Cartoon Network comic as a teen
My first job in comics was to draw a short story for a comic book adaption of a Cartoon Network series.
Games don't treat death like death
Death is not the solution to a conflict in a story. If one of the characters die, the conflict is still not solved. They are still enemies, it's just that one of them are dead.
Player characters are glorified mouse cursors
In secret the mouse cursor have influenced nearly everything we know today about interacting with digital worlds.