Tom Ellard

VIVID and Kraftwerk Deserve Each Other

I saw Kraftwerk play live in 1981. It was wonderful. They brought their whole opera stage with them; all those green/yellow Wagnerian boxes and knobs and neon tubes. They seemed…

February 21, 2013Ranting, Severed HeadsNo Comments

Severed Heads

Last Days. Again.

It’s funny isn’t it, how the busiest times seem to jam up at the death of things. It’s busy now, very busy, as we prepare another larger coffin for Severed…

February 17, 2013Severed HeadsNo Comments

Game Design

This Flight Has Closed

UPDATE. 10pm on Wednesday the 20th February and I am playing it on the MacBook. Its done. It’s fucking done and so am I. UPDATE – AH SHIT – FOUND…

February 17, 2013Game DesignNo Comments

Man Cave

KORG KORG KORG OMG KORG

COMMENTS ARE GETTING BORING AND ARE CLOSED. DO WHAT THOU WILLST, There was a time slightly after the dinosaurs that I owned a small wall of KORG. There was two…

January 30, 2013Man CaveNo Comments

Ranting

Shaggy Squid Story

So anyway, the other night was the peak night for my head cold. You know that night? The one where the fever is high, and you ache and you know…

October 12, 2012RantingNo Comments

Game Design Ranting

HH: Level one tape recorders and physics testing

Maybe other people are super geniuses or something but it’s unbelievable the amount of trouble that goes getting a game to run – let alone be enjoyable…Spent all of today…

June 11, 2012Game Design, RantingNo Comments

Game Design Ranting

Level One is working

Last night I built both a PC executable and web applet of level one, which actually works. The large globe in the centre of the room rotates and broadcasts time…

June 1, 2012Game Design, RantingNo Comments

Game Design Ranting

HH: Feverishly rebuilding the C20th

Spent this weekend working on level 1, manufacturing soundtracks and building tape recorders. I’ve got into a muddle between photo realistic machines and more cartoon like toy recorders. I guess…

May 27, 2012Game Design, RantingNo Comments

Game Design Ranting

HH: Latest News (backwards from May 2012)

Scoring for the Universal Time Machine using a MOD tracker.I’ve edited all the tones and voices for the Universal Time Machine. While I was working on it I realised a…

May 16, 2012Game Design, RantingNo Comments

Game Design Ranting

HH: Recreating WWVH

The heart of the universe has two chambers – radio WWV in Colorado and radio WWVH Hawaii. They beat as one – the Great Timepiece that Orders All Things. The…

April 29, 2012Game Design, RantingNo Comments