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Bebbeh?

simon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:03:42 +0000

The first of 2 paintings for Jude’s baby room is finished and the second one is on the drawing board. So that’s progress. Freelance work has actually been pretty busy so that’s been sapping a good bit of the ol’ come home from work and work on pet projects enthusiasm. However I’ve got a good chunk [...]

Tales of puppets, babies, games etc

simon — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Latest News So here we are, another year is already on the way and it’s time to get busy. As of today baby Jude is ~45days out and counting, lots of house prep is being done and more still to do. Excitement is high and nesting mode is in full swing. The home office has been moved [...]

Long time no bloggy.

simon — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:11:26 +0000

Ok, been a bit hectic and I’ve been a bad blogger. I feel I can blame it on the impending arrival of offspring and get on with it. Couple paintings are done and there’s now a nice angel and demon in 24×24″ panels in the front hall. You know.. to scare people away from the [...]

Slow progress, but good things none the less

simon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Wow time sure does fly, and whoa am I so totally not going to make the Oct 31 deadline! Which more or less means that November and December are going to be choked with Holidays and Family. And it turns out there’s a little baby boy inbound, eta Feb 25(ish) (holy crap!) So that has got to [...]

Sheep benchmark

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Time for a little progress update, eh? Ok so some more sheep have been done but it’s time to assess the situation and get a firm grasp of where exactly I stand. But first a picture of the prototype tuckbox that the game will be shipping with (some assembly required) Why Include something as silly as a [...]

Slow progress

simon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:05:01 +0000

So progress in sheepsville has been..well.. slow.. I’ve got another dozen or so sheep painted and ready to go into their cards, but overall, progress has been a fraction of what it needs to be. The upside, however, is that I’ve gotten a bunch of freelance work (that’s right, I’ll work for money) and that’s pretty much [...]

Mutant Sheep Balanced on a Razor’s Edge

simon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Well as promised, here’s a recap of the weekend’s playtesting. It’s gona be a long one. The good: It was amazingly fun. A bit unlike other games, the going strategy seems to be hording your cards in your hand until you can twist the game in your favor, which seems a bit of a hard concept for [...]

Sheep with a side order of stuff

simon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Time for a quick update! All the text on the cards were wrapped up by Sunday night as hoped! This included the 30 something painted cards and a blank placeholder for the ones that have not been painted yet. It turns out that there will be 8 blank cards in the set so I’m thinking of making [...]

Mutatant Sheep and other exciting things.

simon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Whoa, I’ve been a bad blogger. It’s been over two months since I updated this thing. Time to get back in the swing of things then. So after finishing the monster of all paintings, creativly, I was a bit drained. So I spent about a month not really doing anything.. just recharging the old batteries. Then [...]

Clockworld, It’s Done!

simon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0000

So it only took a little under 7 months, this weekend I finally wrapped up the behemoth that’s been hanging in the kitchen since January. The biggest change was wiping out the sun, which I spent so much time into getting perfect the first time around. However it just wasn’t working. Once [...]