Keyboard porn

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100

My hands are aching, legs are shot, and I'm pretty tired right now. I've just finished completely rebuilding two of my three new IBM Model M clicky keyboards! I'd have posted some before and after pics, but I didn't want to frighten anyone. The before pics are horrifying, and the after looks just like a brand new clicky Model M. But in case anyone in the Austin area (or not) is looking for some more of these ancient but awesome 'boards, Comptuers 4 Kids has quite a few still kicking aroun [...]

Corsair F100 SSD performance

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100

We just bought new machines a couple of weeks back. They're pretty sweet. I don't normally splurge on things, but I do like to buy quality that serves a purpose. So, rather than buying a typical off-the-shelf Dell or even an HP workstation, I decided to have some built by my good friend Jeremy Siprelle who knows how to build such things. I'm a demanding customer, though, and wanted some top shelf parts and some solid but economical parts.

The case is a Silverstone Raven [...]

Still Hiring...

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I bet you were reading this and thinking to yourself, "I wonder who I know that would like to work in the games industry with some fairly veteran talent, but doesn't want to be forced into doing some run-of-the-mill AAA project that is rehashing a tired old property, or has a numeral exceeding 3 in the title". Thanks for that. Go ahead and check our job postings and pass on the link to your friends that totally kick ass. We like people that totally kick ass, chock full of Chucknorium.

Slides from the edge...

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Last night went fairly well. There were two other speakers before me. They went on quite a long time, and unfortunately some folks had to leave early, being a school night and all... But those who hung around were a great audience.

I put a good deal more time into the slides than what shows from the version hosted up here, as a PDF. I'd prefer to host it as a PPT file, since there's a [...]

Speaking tonight to 3D Austin Users Group

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It looks like my good friend Brad Clark finally roped me into talking in front of an audience of graphics professionals. Consequently, I've spent too many hours working on a slide presentation about my thoughts on running an independent game studio, how my goals and expectations have changed over the years, and what lessons I've learned in the process of both succeeding and failing at the job.

I'm not certain at this point whether I'll present this again in a different fo [...]

A New Day

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

It's been a hard but exciting development season. This whole year, we've been working with RedFly Studio to bring their Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked title to life by providing the majority of progamming for the game. Meanwhile, we also did a complete port from PC to Wii retail for North America (EU coming soon, we hope) of Dr. Fizzwizzle's Animal Rescue, for Replay Games (correction).

Right now, Jeff and I also are wrapping up the final build for a November 3rd r [...]

Various bits of news

jhughes@steelpennygames.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

It's been a little while since the last blog post. Quite a few things have been happening around here, so I guess it's time to put up some news, in no particular order.

Andrew Gilmour has moved on to greener pastures. We wish him well at Frozen Codebase. So, we're looking for an Art Director again.
Steel Penny has agreed to help our friends at Red Fly Studio wrap up a couple of titles that needed some additional man power. This is a great opportunity for us, and if all goes well, w [...]