Scott Andrew

Incredible stuff. Check out the Crush the Castle/Angry Birds clone demo.

Posted January 26, 2015

My buddy Matthew Moore is Kickstarting a new literary-minded card game called Bring Your Own Book.

Bring Your Own Book is fun and simple. Players take turns drawing prompts from the deck, then race to find the best phrase in their own book that satisfies the prompt. Watch this quick tutorial to see the rules in action.

Bring Your Own Book started as a response to one of those memes on social media: "Grab the nearest book and turn to page 36; the first full sentence describes your love life!" They were occasionally amusing, but they lacked agency and reliable entertainment. Still, that act of reading text from books out of context was begging to be turned into a game.

I had the pleasure of playtesting an early version of this game last year, and it's cool to see the near-final product coming together. And in promising news, BYOB has been selected as one of eight games to exhibit at the PAX South Tabletop Indie Showcase, which is happening right! now!

Go check out and back Bring Your Own Book on Kickstarter.

Posted January 23, 2015

Speaking of styluses and digital drawing, here's some character work I've done for an adventure comic that exists only in my head at the moment. (Click each for a larger image.)

Posted January 20, 2015

I would certainly welcome one. The iPad screen is optimized for smooshy fingertips, not precision drawing instruments. Seems like a no-brainer; I'd switch to iPad in a heartbeat if the experience was like what I get from a Surface Pro or Wacom product.

(Also, some non-awful drawing software would be nice.)

Posted January 20, 2015

Amazon's Plan to Make Films and Debut Them on Prime Right After Theaters.

I remember when I first heard about Amazon Studios just a few years back, I wondered why on earth they'd be doing such a thing, even as I sat enthralled by House of Cards on Netflix. Not a big picture guy, me.

Posted January 19, 2015

Bummer. He designed both Robby the Robot and the robot from Lost In Space (simply known as "Robot"), and was the lead designer for that show, creating the spacecraft sets. A few years ago my wife and I went to the EMP Science Fiction Museum to check out an exhibit that featured animatronic replicas of both robots arguing with each other. It was pretty great.

Something I learned: due to the similar urgent tone and cadence, I used to think that a single voice actor provided the voices for both robot characters, but I was wrong. Robby was voiced by Marvin Miller, while Robot's voice was by Dick Tufeld, who also did Robot's voice for the 1998 movie version of Lost In Space and a few episodes of The Simpsons.

I couldn't find any video of the EMP exhibit, so instead enjoy these classic SyFy Channel commercials featuring both robots:

Posted January 14, 2015

I picked up this great Shadow Of The Colossus print from artist Gillian Newland at Emerald City Comic Con last year. For sale here.

Did you know the colossi have names? The one in the print is Gaius. I love this game so much. It's basically the reason I can't get rid of our PS2.

Posted January 13, 2015

The Amazon Studios series becomes the first online series to win a Globe for best comedy or musical series. A big nod to the legitimacy of original programming.

We've watched the pilot and a few episodes. It's darkly funny and a slow-burner, and Maura's self-absorbed adult children will make Gen-X viewers squirm.

Posted January 12, 2015

Cartoonist Ted Rall:

Scholars and analysts of the form have tried to articulate exactly what it is about comics that make them so effective at drawing an emotional response, but I think it’s the fact that such a deceptively simple art form can pack such a wallop. Particularly in the political cartoon format, nothing more than workaday artistic chops and a few snide sentences can be enough to cause a reader to question his long-held political beliefs, national loyalties, even his faith in God.

That drives some people nuts.

Hell, some people get all huffy over Some E-cards.

Posted January 12, 2015

The Washington Post recaps what was fake on the internet this past week. Someone should make this a weekly newsletter.

Posted January 11, 2015