I am pleased to announce the opening of the jmac.org video store, where you can buy DVDs of the first six episodes of The Gameshelf and Jmac's Arcade, respectively ( Read more... )

Gruber's right; this demo video for the new iPhone Twitter-posting app Birdhouse is a model of its class, and is required viewing for everyone who might ever need to make a demo video of anything. Even if they hate Twitter.

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(Yes, I am likely to drop the $4 on this, since I have been Twittering a lot lately, and feeling like I'm just starting to ( Read more... )

I am making a new Jmac's Arcade but I officially declare its production as bedeviled, which is to say that progress is slowed due to interference from imps. Gremlins! I have no other explanation ( Read more... )

So the year is half-over. Well, it had to happen eventually. Let's take inventory, pillar-style.

Volity Started ramping up in late March and really went into overdrive two months later when I had a conversation with daerr about how the web client ought to work. I've been working on that by myself since then - about one month, now - which is great, ( Read more... )

I've written the scripts for my monologues and lead-ins for next Wednesday's shoot. With a total reading-time of around eight minutes, it feels rather wordy, but I bet it will work out. Some of it will be read over clips of the games we played in the studio, and the rest will feature me standing before the SCAT green screen, which I hope will ( Read more... )

Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes.

Ricky asked me, as he does every year, how it feels to be N. Instead of saying something like "Same as it felt to be N - 1" I said "I think it's gonna be a really good year." And I meant it!

Ricky's birthday was a few days ago (he's 51 now) and mom got him mandolin lessons, which is a bang-on typical good- ( Read more... )

Anyone have any insight on low-budget teleprompter solutions? Assume presence of laptops and general technical know-how ( Read more... )

This LJ is now the #1 Google hit for "Textless Material".

And since lediva asked: its purpose is to make localization easier. Exported versions of the show can overlay the clips with titles in any language they like, and then use them to replace the matching slices of video track in the original show ( Read more... )

derspatchel wins the cookie of the day award. I have some great ideas for City of Heroes dudes and even started to enact them after daerr installed all the MMOs on the Volity office PC last spring, but I haven't done much with the game since. So Olympia Snowe and the Papa Hemingway Action Force will have to wait ( Read more... )

The fourth Gameshelf has been available for a while via RSS, but I didn't link to it directly because it wasn't quite done yet. Last night I sunk around three hours into both cleaning it up (it had a bunch of broken transitions) and carving 18 minutes off of it. This puts it below the 30-minute mark, which means I can hand it to SCAT and they can ( Read more... )