Woohoo!

Always good to wrap up another title. And man, a lot of work went into that one. Early reviews have been good, so I’m hoping it does really well this holiday season!

Read more about it here.

New teaser out for the game we’re currently working on.

Check it out:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Got them all sorted finally, and picked out the ones I liked the most.

Check them out in the Bahamas gallery on my photos page here.

The company I work for, Insomniac Games, just celebrated their 15 year anniversary. They took the company on a cruise to the Bahamas. I just got back today, and had a great time. We went to CocoCay Island the first day and did some snorkeling…saw lots of cool fish and some rays, then walked around the island taking pics and just soaking up the warmth. (It was about 30 degrees when we left Elko, so the weather was a nice change!). Next day was Nassau. We wanted to avoid the more touristy spots, so just walked around on the back streets to see how people lived there in the city and what it was like. Jackie had no interest in seeing Atlantis since it’s about the most touristy thing you can do there, but I got curious about an hour before the cruise ship left Nassau, so we split up and I grabbed a cab to go there and get a few pictures before we left.

After the cruise, I continued with my wife Jackie and son Casey for a few days in Southern Florida to check out a couple of the parks there. We saw Biscayne National Park, Everglades National Park, and then cut across Florida to Naples on the Gulf coast side of the state to see the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. We then met up with my sister Toni and her husband Bill, and stayed a night with them in Venice Florida. Also got to visit with my nephew Tony, who I hadn’t seen for years. Then we checked out the awesome Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

The parks were great. We saw alligators, all kinds of herons, egrets, lizards, turtles, and lots of wild trees, bromeliads, ferns, air plants,  and unusual flowers. It was a real whirlwind of a trip and like most vacations was over too soon.

Then it was back to Ft. Lauderdale and the return flight. I took a boatload of photos, and will need to go through them and exercise my delete key to get rid of the crap and whittle it down to my favorites.

Will post photos soon!

It’s been getting some good reviews too…check out the scores at Metacritic.

Here’s a shot of Metropolis, which is the opening level in the game, and is also what you see in the demo you can download on the Playstation Network. This is one of the levels I lit, and I think it came out pretty well.

I’m looking forward to playing it …I only lit about five of the levels myself, so there’s a lot of the game that I haven’t even seen yet. So go buy one. Or two. Buy lots for all your friends.

Check out the official Ratchet and Clank website here.

I decided to put together an article about the impact lighting has for contributing to mood and realism. It’s basically a series of before and after screenshots, along with some commentary about lighting in general.

It’s in the tutorials section of my gallery website…check it out here.