Saturday, July 20, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Child Labor, Pt. 1
Why bother making your own spaceship schematics when you can get children to do it for you? That's what we stand for here in Bartholomew's Domain. Good enough for Steve Jobs, good enough for me.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Saturday, February 2, 2013
How to Make a Tile
I'm using GraphicsGale, which is free for Windows. Mac users may find luck with Pixen or Asesprite.
Step 1:
Tiles are 50px by 50px. Creating a new custom grid in GG will set you right. Alternatively, you can just draw a 50x50 rectangle, then draw inside that.
Step 2:
Like a jigsaw puzzle, it's best to start with the edges first. That way, you know they overlap right.
Step 3:
Fill in the middle, still janky and one color. Just need a blueprint.
Step 4:
Get yourself a palette, if you haven't yet.
(Four colors. Kinda blurry here.)
Step 5:
Fill in the shapes, then get rid of those jagged edges!
Er, I mean...
Step 6:
COLORING!!!
Step 7:
Give it a background color, and be sure to color the background with different stuff so it looks complex. Then add a few lil doodads in the blank spaces and you're all set.
Step 8: After EMAILING US for a username and login go to bartholomewsdomain dot org backslash Admin. Then do Gallery > Tiles > Pictures:
Step 9:
Add that sucker. Then go to Map Tile Types and bless your new friend with a name.
Step 10:
Go to a map of your choosing and click on a tile...
...what kinda tile you want?...
BOOM! (you can also double-click on the tiles to the left and stamp it wherever you please).
All done in less time than it takes to roast a chicken.
-Joe
Step 1:
Tiles are 50px by 50px. Creating a new custom grid in GG will set you right. Alternatively, you can just draw a 50x50 rectangle, then draw inside that.
Step 2:
Like a jigsaw puzzle, it's best to start with the edges first. That way, you know they overlap right.
Step 3:
Fill in the middle, still janky and one color. Just need a blueprint.
Step 4:
Get yourself a palette, if you haven't yet.
(Four colors. Kinda blurry here.)
Step 5:
Fill in the shapes, then get rid of those jagged edges!
Er, I mean...
Step 6:
COLORING!!!
Step 7:
Give it a background color, and be sure to color the background with different stuff so it looks complex. Then add a few lil doodads in the blank spaces and you're all set.
Step 8: After EMAILING US for a username and login go to bartholomewsdomain dot org backslash Admin. Then do Gallery > Tiles > Pictures:
Step 9:
Add that sucker. Then go to Map Tile Types and bless your new friend with a name.
Step 10:
Go to a map of your choosing and click on a tile...
...what kinda tile you want?...
BOOM! (you can also double-click on the tiles to the left and stamp it wherever you please).
All done in less time than it takes to roast a chicken.
-Joe
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Meta Map, pt1
Hey all,
Our first 3x4 sketches follow. Hopefully they aren't too sketchy.
Sincerely,
Bartholomew
Regent-Chancellor
BartholomewsDomain, dot, org
Our first 3x4 sketches follow. Hopefully they aren't too sketchy.
Sincerely,
Bartholomew
Regent-Chancellor
BartholomewsDomain, dot, org
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Glass Bead Game
"[T]he
Game of games had developed into a kind of universal language [..] Throughout its history the Game was closely allied with music,
and usually proceeded according to [...] mathematical rules. One
theme, two themes, or three themes were stated, elaborated, varied, and
underwent a development [...] A Game, for example, might start from a
given astronomical configuration, [...] or the Upanishads[. D]epending on the intentions and talents of the player, it
could either further explore and elaborate the initial motif or else
enrich its expressiveness by allusions[...] Beginners
learned how [...] by means of the Game's symbols[.... .] Experts and Masters of the Game freely wove the initial [...] into unlimited [???] "
-Herman Hesse, Glasperlenspiel
"They were so clever, keeping the truth from him all this time. But now was it going to backfire on
them. If Ender understood that it was not a game, that the real war had come down to this moment,
then he might make some desperate effort, or with his genius he might even come up with an
answer to a problem that, as far as Bean could see, had no solution."
-Herman Hesse, Glasperlenspiel
Ender sat on his bed with his desk on his knees. It was private study time, and Ender
was doing Free Play. It was a shifting, crazy kind of game in which the school computer
kept bringing up new things, building a maze that you could explore. You could go back
to events that you liked, for a while; if you left them alone too long, they disappeared and
something else took its place.
-Orson Scott Card, "The Giant's Drink"
-Orson Scott Card, "The Giant's Drink"
Not a Game
"Selling books is like a game; it has rules, and you have to learn them and get serious about them because it's not a game!"
A Stock Phrase used on characters frivolous – or apparently frivolous – in the face of a Matter of Life and Death.
"This isn't a game." or "We are not playing a game."
— Evan, Black Books
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours
"On the journey I said to myself, 'I am going into the world of
men. I don't know much, perhaps, but a new life has begun for me.' I
made up my mind to be honest, and steadfast in accomplishing my task.
Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have
made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be
asked of me. People may consider me a child if they like. I am often
called an idiot, and at one time I certainly was so ill that I was
nearly as bad as an idiot; but I am not an idiot now. How can I possibly
be so when I know myself that I am considered one?"
-Prince Myshkin
"Not an Idiot Now"
Part II
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"At least he's dedicated to something. Too many
people float around this world doing nothing! Just smoking, drinking and
having ten children. But as many of you say, he is still a bit of an
idiot."
-
JohnnyTheHitman
,
Canterbury, United Kingdom,
22/11/2012 04:07
Comment,
Daily Mail UK
-Ender's Shadow
-Joseph Campbell
New commands, actions and triggers coming soon!
"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the
journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the
labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the
hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall
find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay
ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the
center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall
be with all the world."
Google 'Horrible Paintings', first hit
Google 'Horrible Paintings,' twenty-first hit
Hesse is no black humorist. Black humorists' holy wanderers find nothing
but junk and lies and idiocy wherever they go…. Not so with the
wanderers of Hesse; they always find something satisfying—holiness,
wisdom, hope. (p. 108)
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "Why They Read Hesse"
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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