Stolen Notebook http://stolennotebook.com Just another Stolennotebook.com weblog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:28:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Corporate Makeover http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/04/19/corporate-makeover/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/04/19/corporate-makeover/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:34:43 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2007/04/19/corporate-makeover/ These past few weeks have been hectic to say the least. We’ve been busy reorganizing the office/apartment, creating an entertainment room, switching web hosting, putting the website and gallery back, and setting up our new development servers. Getting all this done between full time jobs and school wasn’t easy but it was definitely worth it. Check out the new Stolen Notebook offices in the gallery. Now it’s back to business as usual.

Stolen Notebook Server Rack
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]]> http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/04/19/corporate-makeover/feed/ 446 We’re moving http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/04/01/were-moving/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/04/01/were-moving/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:54:17 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2007/04/01/were-moving/ We are in the process of moving to a new web host. Our new host, Dream Host, offers us more of what we need and a few things we didn’t expect from a web host. Please, bear with us as we complete our switch.

The Stolen Notebook Team

]]> http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/04/01/were-moving/feed/ 0 Blog Updates http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/01/29/blog-updates/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2007/01/29/blog-updates/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:37:17 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2007/01/29/blog-updates/ As The Firefly Effect has progressed there have been a slew of updates on team member’s blogs.

colsen explains the architecture of our asset build system
Denrei discusses techniques for creating grass
Tony talks about getting file changes from buildbot

A new batch of screenshots has been added to the project’s gallery section.

Check back regularly for more updates.

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A collection of development screenshots for The Firefly Effect has been added to the Stolen Notebook gallery. More screens here.

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Denrei created a couple characters for the winter milestone. Here’s a quick screenshot of what he’s been up to. It’s just a render from Maya, not in-game yet. Hopefully you can start to get a vague idea of what this game is about.

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]]> http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/28/more-art/feed/ 0 Concept http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/20/concept/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/20/concept/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:26:16 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2006/12/20/concept/ The Winter Milestone is evolving quickly. We’ve been kicking around ideas, prototyping and refining gameplay mechanics, and developing the overall theme of the game. The majority of the game mechanics are decided and tested. Now we’re focusing on the style of the game.

Denrei has been creating a lot of concept art at these early stages of development. Here’s one of his stage concepts. Who are those dark silhouettes in the tall grass?  Answers to come.

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]]> http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/20/concept/feed/ 0 Dead of Winter Milestone http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/12/dead-of-winter-milestone/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/12/dead-of-winter-milestone/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:12:41 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2006/12/12/dead-of-winter-milestone/ Winter got you down? Perk up! Stolen Notebook is readying a new milestone just for you!

This milestone’s theme is arcade style action and strategy. Think Bubble Bobble, Buster Brothers and the like.

The great thing about these games is that they are simple to pick up and play while offering a surprising amount of depth. We’ve come up with a game idea that is easy to get into but with enough depth to let the player use the simple game mechanics strategically. We are specifically targeting the round or level based simultaneous two player style of these games that makes them games so competitive. Nonsensical story to be included.

Expect the flourishes of the arcade game on your home PC. Expect Radiance.

]]> http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/12/12/dead-of-winter-milestone/feed/ 0 November IGDA http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/11/08/november-igda/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/11/08/november-igda/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:29:07 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2006/11/08/november-igda/ Stolen Notebook will be attending the next IGDA Madison meeting on November 21st at The Casbah. The meeting features a keynote by Alex Seropian, founder of Bungie and Wideload.

Stolen Notebook will see you there!

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Needless to say Stolen Notebook will be attending. See you there.

]]> http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/09/22/igda-madison-chapter/feed/ 0 Pub Crawl Video http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/09/09/pub-crawl-video/ http://stolennotebook.com/blog/2006/09/09/pub-crawl-video/#comments Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:32:35 +0000 chrisaolsen http://www.stolennotebook.com/2006/09/09/pub-crawl-video/ A video of Pub Crawl is now available! The streaming version is available below. A high quality Xvid version is available here.

The video features the music of James Whitman who has been making a lot of great music for us. Expect more videos and great music in the future.

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