Chris Tessmer's Sketchblog

Games People Play

Chris — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:50:48 +0000

Practical Maternity Wear

Chris — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:07:05 +0000

Moustache

Chris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:36:39 +0000

Stuff Stuff Stuff

Observer Pattern

Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:16:53 +0000

You have a superb feeling about this level.

Chris — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:49:54 +0000

Congratulations to Angband on today’s release of 3.10b.

[Update, 9 Jan 2009]: Further congratulations on Angband becoming 100% GPL clean! Now Angband can be included with Debian!

The roguelike genre is the horseshoe crab of gaming. It evolved years before most other games were possible, and hasn’t changed much since.

For historical reasons, most Roguelikes don’t even have graphics. Any object on the screen is represented by a single ASCII character. Today’s image would be depicted in-game as something like this:

#####
#   #
#   #
##+##
<.@..

and when the door is finally opened:

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#dTc#
#...#
##`##
<.@..

“surprise!”

Resolution

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:10:59 +0000

Happy new year, 2009.

Looks Like Pen

Chris — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:39:48 +0000

The Future Looks Good

Chris — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:13:51 +0000

Congratulations to Amy, who is now the artist for the new series of Madame Xanadu from Vertigo comics!

“Mainstream sensibilities” (as the nerdocentric interview puts it) don’t know what they’re in for. I like to think that ten years from now fans will remember Mme X from the classic “Hadley covers” instead of the old Kaluta one.

Ice Floe Lunch

Chris — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:36:16 +0000

The Peacock and the Tree

Chris — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:26:03 +0000